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BackgroundThe Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 and its accompanying joint explanatory statement (JES) designated $15.3 billion for 7,234 projects at the request of Members of Congress. The act includes provisions that designate an amount of funds for a particular recipient, such as a nonprofit organization or local government, to use for a specific project. These provisions are called "Community Project Funding” in the House of Representatives and “Congressionally Directed Spending" in the U.S. Senate. Nineteen federal agencies were appropriated funds for these provisions.This data set provides the full list of provisions included as part of the fiscal year 2023 appropriations. In addition to the JES, we used other sources noted below to identify the applicable information. For example, for location, if not in the JES, we used the description of the recipient, project or requester to determine the state. We shared this dataset with agencies for review and incorporated comments, as applicable.See GAO-23-106561 for the report accompanying this spreadsheet, which also includes additional information about the objectives, scope, and methodology used to produce this data set:  https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-23-106561. Contacts:Chuck YoungManaging DirectorOffice of Public Affairs(202) 512-4800 youngc1@gao.gov Allison Bawden DirectorNatural Resources and Environment(202) 512-3841 bawdena@gao.gov Heather Krause DirectorPhysical Infrastructure (202) 512-2834krauseh@gao.gov Worksheetsreadme: Description of the contents of this spreadsheet.results: Worksheet that displays descriptive information about the fiscal year 2023 provisions. This worksheet displays information on 7,234 provisions. For rows 8 through 7,241, each row represents information for a provision from the JES accompanying the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 and our analysis of the law and JES. Column DefinitionsAgency (Column A): Federal agency required to administer the provision by the JES.Subunit (Column B): Subunit within federal agency required to administer the provision, if applicable, provided by the JES.Appropriations Subcommittee of Jurisdiction (Column C):  The appropriations subcommittee with jurisdiction over the agency designated these funds as provided in the JES.Account (Column D): Account, provided in the JES, through which funds are to be provided. Budget Account Number (Column E): A code assigned by the Office of Management and Budget to an account in the Budget Appendix of the President’s budget.Budget Function (Column F): Descriptive category of budget account spending, based on the budget account number, which were included in the Budget Appendix of the President’s budget and published by the Office of Management and Budget.Project/Recipient (Column G): Description of project and/or recipient of funds for the provision, provided by the JES.Amount (Column H): Total funds designated for the provision in U.S. dollars, provided by the JES.Location (Column I): Location of recipient or project, provided by the JES.Requestor Information (Column J): Includes the requestor(s) of the provision, provided by the JES.Period of Availability (Column K): The time period during which the appropriated funds are available to the agency to incur new obligations for a provision, as provided by the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023 and information from federal agencies.Note: This data was updated in March 2024 to correct an error in the Requester information for projects requested by Representative Mike Garcia, CA.

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