Fiscal Year 2021 Enacted Appropriation $10,618,000

Fiscal Year 2022 Requested Appropriation $10,309,000

Requested Decrease from Fiscal Year 2021 Enacted Appropriation ($309,000)

APPROPRIATION LANGUAGE

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

 CARE OF THE BUILDING AND GROUNDS

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

Care of the Building and Grounds

SUMMARY STATEMENT OF ACCOUNT REQUIREMENTS

Act, 2021)

(P.L. 116-260 - Financial Services and General Government Appropriations

 For such expenditures as may be necessary to enable the

Architect of the Capitol to carry out the duties imposed upon the

Architect by 40 U.S.C. 6111 and 6112, [$10,618,000]$10,309,000,

to remain available until expended.

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Fiscal Year 2022 Resource Requirements:

FTEs Amount

Fiscal Year 2021 Enacted Appropriation........................................................................................................... 54 $10,618

Page 

No. Adjustments to Base to Maintain Current Services:

A. Personnel

Pay and Benefit Adjustments

1.24 1. Proposed 2022 pay adjustment (1.0% for nine months)....................................................................................... - 35

1.24 2. Annualization of 2021 pay adjustment (1.0% for three months).............................................................................. - 11

1.24 3. Promotions and within-grade increases......................................................................................................... - 36

1.24 4. Benefits increases - 

a. Health benefits........................................................................................................................... - 16

b. FICA adjustment........................................................................................................................ - 1 

c. FERS adjustment........................................................................................................................ - 45

B. Other Adjustments

General Inflationary Adjustments

1.25 6. Inflationary increases in charges for contracts, services, supplies, and equipment......................................................... - 91

1.25 7. Reduce Staffing Requirements.................................................................................................................. (4) (544)

 (4) (309)

 50 10,309

 Total Fiscal Year 2022 Appropriation Required.............................................................................................. 50 10,309

 (4) (309)

Subtotal, Adjustments to Base to Maintain Current Services....................................................................................

Total Current Services Appropriation Required..................................................................................................

 Total Appropriation Change, Fiscal Year 2021 to Fiscal Year 2022........................................................................

SUMMARY OF REQUEST

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

CARE OF THE BUILDING AND GROUNDS

FISCAL YEAR 2022

(Dollar amounts in thousands)

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Care of Building and Grounds, Total Obligations 13,544 16,209 17,809

Unobligated Balance, Start of Year (21,487) (23,533) (17,942)

Unobligated Balance, End of Year 23,533 17,942 10,442

.

Available Appropriation 15,590 10,618 10,309

11 Personnel compensation 4,096 4,255 4,520

12 Personnel benefits 1,589 1,570 1,673

21 Travel and transportation of things 4 4 4

23 Rent, communications and utilities 1,574 2,650 2,650

25 Other services 4,363 5,705 6,912

26 Supplies and materials 387 425 650

31 Equipment 0 0 150

32 Land and structures 1,531 1,600 1,250

43 Interest and Dividends 0 0 0

Total Obligations 13,544 16,209 17,809

Actual Assumed Request

Assumed Request

Fiscal Year 2020 Fiscal Year 2021 Fiscal Year 2022

Description

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

CARE OF THE BUILDING AND GROUNDS

Obligations by Activity ($000)

Fiscal Year 2020 Fiscal Year 2021 Fiscal Year 2022

Activity Actual

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Fiscal Year 2021

Fiscal Year 2020 Assumed Fiscal Year 2022 Difference

Actuals Obligations Request (+) or (-)

Obligations incurred, net 13,544 16,209 17,809 1,600

Obligated balance, start of year 12,276 10,800 13,278 2,478

Adjustments to obligated balance 300 1,000 1,000 0

Obligated balance, end of year (10,800) (14,520) (12,558) 1,962

Outlays 15,320 13,489 19,529 6,040 

Fiscal Year 2021

Fiscal Year 2020 Assumed Fiscal Year 2022 Difference

Actual FTE Request (+) or (-)

Total compensable workyears:

 Full-time equivalent employment 40 54 50 (4)

1/ Full-time equivalent numbers reflect payroll funded and project funded personnel.

Personnel Summary1/

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

CARE OF THE BUILDING AND GROUNDS

Relation of Obligations to Outlays ($000)

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GENERAL STATEMENT AND INFORMATION

This appropriation, for expenditure by the Architect of the Capitol, provides for the structural and mechanical care of the United States 

Supreme Court Building and Grounds, including maintenance and operation of mechanical, electrical, and electronic equipment. The 

Architect is not responsible for custodial care, which is under the jurisdiction of the Marshal of the Supreme Court and is provided for 

in the Supreme Court’s Salaries and Expenses appropriation. The Architect performs his duties under authority of 40 U.S.C. § 6111. 

The equipment maintained through this account includes such items as air conditioning, refrigeration, and ventilating systems with more 

than 1,000 pieces of equipment; electrical transformer stations and the emergency power system; three hundred plumbing fixtures and 

related piping; nine elevators and four dumbwaiters; electrical fixtures and wiring; and electronic security equipment. In FY 2022, a 

total of 50 full-time equivalents (FTE) are expected to cover three shifts daily. 

The FY 2022 request for the Supreme Court, Building and Grounds account totals $10,309,000. This request includes funding to 

maintain current services and seeks no program increases. Funding in this request pertains only to the buildings and grounds of the 

Supreme Court; projects under the Architect of the Capitol relating to the buildings and grounds of the Capitol campus are included in 

the Legislative Branch budget. 

FISCAL YEAR 2021 APPROPRIATIONS

The judiciary built the FY 2022 budget request for the Supreme Court Building and Grounds account on the enacted FY 2021 

appropriation of $10,618,000. For bill language, the judiciary used the language from P.L. 116-260, Financial Services and General 

Government Appropriations Act, 2021. 
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Justification of Changes 

The FY 2022 budget request for the Supreme Court of the 

United States, Care of the Building and Grounds 

appropriation, totals $10,309,000 and 50 FTEs. This 

represents a decrease of $309,000, or 2.9 percent, from the FY

2021 enacted appropriation of $10,618,000. 

Adjustments to base to maintain current services include an 

increase of $235,000 for pay and benefit adjustments and 

general inflationary increases and a decrease of $544,000 for 

a reduction in staffing requirements. 

ADJUSTMENTS TO BASE TO MAINTAIN CURRENT

SERVICES:

A. PERSONNEL

Pay and Benefit Adjustments

1. Proposed 2022 pay adjustment

Requested Increase: $35,000 

The judiciary is assuming federal pay rates will increase by 1.0 

percent in January 2022. The requested increase provides for 

the cost of nine months of the anticipated pay adjustment in 

FY 2022, from January 2022 to September 2022. (If the pay 

adjustment included in the President’s FY 2022 budget request 

is different from this 1.0 percent guidance, the judiciary will 

revise this line item in its FY 2022 budget re-estimate.)

2. Annualization of 2021 pay adjustment

Requested Increase: $11,000 

The requested increase provides for the annualized costs of a 

2021 Employment Cost Index pay adjustment for federal 

civilian workers. Based on the FY 2021 enacted 

appropriation, federal pay rates increased by 1.0 percent, 

effective as of January 2021. The requested increase provides 

for the cost of three months (from October 2021 to December 

2021) of the 2021 pay increase in FY 2022. 

3. Promotions and within-grade increases

Requested Increase: $36,000 

The requested increase provides for promotions and withingrade increases and other adjustments, such as career ladder 

pay increases for support personnel. Increases for withingrades are authorized by 5 U.S.C. §§ 5102(c)(7), 5102(d), 

5341-5349 for wage board employees and by 5 U.S.C. 

§§ 5331-5336 for general schedule employees.

4. Benefits increases

a. Health benefits

Requested Increase: $16,000 
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Based on information from the Office of Personnel 

Management, agency health benefit premium contributions are 

projected to increase by an average of 3.0 percent both in 

January 2021 and January 2022. The requested increase 

annualizes the 2021 premium increase and includes a ninemonth provision for an estimated 3.0 percent increase 

anticipated for FY 2022. 

b. FICA adjustment

Requested Increase: $1,000 

Based on information from the Social Security Administration, 

employer contributions to the Old Age, Survivor, and 

Disability Insurance (OASDI) portion of the FICA tax will 

increase in 2021. The salary cap for OASDI increased from 

$137,700 to $142,800 in January 2021. The requested amount 

is needed to pay the agency contribution in FY 2022. 

c. FERS adjustment

Requested Increase: $45,000 

Consistent with guidance from the Office of Management and 

Budget, funds are requested for an increase in the agency 

contribution rate to Federal Employees Retirement System 

(FERS) plans for FY 2022. For most employees, the agency 

contribution rate will increase from 17.3 percent to 18.4 

percent. Any FERS increase is in accordance with revised 

estimates of the cost of providing benefits by the Board of 

Actuaries of the Civil Service Retirement and Disability 

System.

B. OTHER ADJUSTMENTS

General Inflationary Adjustments

6. Inflationary increases in charges for contracts,

services, supplies, and equipment

Requested Increase: $91,000 

Consistent with guidance from the Office of Management 

and Budget, this request of $91,000 is required to fund 

inflationary increases of 2.0 percent for operating expenses 

such as travel, communications, printing, contractual 

services, supplies and materials, furniture, and equipment. 

7. Reduced Staffing Requirements FTE: (4)

Requested Decrease: ( $544,000) 

The requested decrease of 4 FTE and $544,000 is due to 

reduced Architect of the Capitol staffing requirements 

needed to provide direct support to the Supreme Court 

Buildings and Grounds.