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NCD Agency Shutdown Plan in Absence of Appropriations Tuesday, March 19, 2024
 
 **Agency Shutdown Plan** March 2024 PURPOSE: To provide the National Council on Disability’s (“NCD”) policy guidance and 
instructions for actions to be taken when Congress fails to enact either regular appropriations, a 
continuing resolution, or needed supplemental, resulting in an interruption of fund availability. 
In the absence of appropriations:

    •  NCD officers may not incur any obligations that cannot lawfully be funded from prior 
appropriations unless such obligations are otherwise authorized by law.

    •  NCD officers may incur obligations as necessary for orderly termination of an agency’s 
functions, but funds may not be disbursed.
  SCOPE: This plan applies to all NCD personnel including the nine Special Government Employees 
(private citizen Presidential and Congressional appointees.)
  POLICY: In order to execute an orderly shutdown, the following information is provided:
•  Estimated time to complete shutdown: One half-day;

    •  Number of on-board employees prior to execution: 10;

    •  Number of employees retained under plan: 0;

    •  Executive Director, on behalf of the Chair, will notify OMB that shutdown procedures have 
initiated;

    •  Director of Administration, Finance and Operations or designee will notify building management 
of shutdown status;

    •  Director of Administration, Finance and Operations will notify all agency personnel of 
shutdown status and will initiate action to issue furlough notices and other instructions as 
appropriate;

    •  Director of Administration, Finance and Operations will direct Contracting Officer’s 
Representatives to notify agency contractors of shutdown status and other instructions as 
appropriate;

    •  Director of Administration, Finance and Operations will direct Network Consultant to ensure 
servers and other IT equipment are secured; and

    •  For NCD employees scheduled for approved travel late in the funded period, official business 
associated with travel can continue as scheduled up until midnight on the last day of funding. Any 
employee in travel status is excepted to facilitate return travel, then furloughed or exempted as 
appropriate upon return.

    •  For NCD employees scheduled to be on leave at the beginning of the shutdown, all leave will be 
cancelled and those employees will be placed on furlough status. Those employees may come off 
furlough status to complete shutdown activities the first day they were scheduled to return to 
work, including return travel. For that period, they will temporarily be placed on excepted status to complete their shutdown activities. Once that is complete, they will immediately return to furloughed status.

    •  NCD’s agency website will be offline during any shutdown as its operation does not constitute 
nor facilitate any excepted activity.

    •  Agency personnel will be instructed to obtain information from news outlets for when a 
continuing resolution or an FY 2024 appropriation has been approved and that they will be expected 
to return to work on their next regularly scheduled workday.
  REFERENCES:

    •  OMB Circular No. A-ll (2015), Section 124.2, pages 1-2

    •  OMB Memo M-13-22, Planning for Agency Operations during a Potential Lapse in Appropriations (and 
attachments), September 17, 2013.
  REVIEW: This Agency Shutdown Plan has been prepared, with the assistance of NCD’s Director of 
Administration, Finance, and Operations as well as the Executive Director, and reviewed by the 
undersigned. It complies with guidance provided in the reference documents. Respectfully, Claudia Gordon

Vice Chair / Acting Chair


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