Fiscal Year 2022 Assumed Appropriation $10,309,000

Fiscal Year 2023 Requested Appropriation $33,512,000

Requested Increase from Fiscal Year 2022 Assumed Appropriation $23,203,000

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

(H.R 4502 - Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, 2022) 

 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, [$10,309,000] $33,512,000,

to remain available until expended.

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Fiscal Year 2023 Resource Requirements:

FTEs Amount

Fiscal Year 2022 Assumed Appropriation........................................................................................................... 50 $ 10,309

Page 

No. Adjustments to Base to Maintain Current Services:

A. Personnel

Pay and Benefit Adjustments

1.25 1. Proposed 2023 pay adjustment (4.6% for nine months)....................................................................................... - $ 140

1.25 2. Annualization of 2022 pay adjustment (2.7% for three months).............................................................................. - $ 43

1.25 3. Promotions and within-grade increases......................................................................................................... - $ 40

1.26 4. Benefits increases -

a. Health benefits.................................................................................................................................... - $ 12

b. FICA adjustment................................................................................................................................. - $ 2

1.26 5. One less compensable day........................................................................................................................ - $ (21)

B. Other Adjustments

General Inflationary Adjustments

1.26 6. Inflationary increases in charges for contracts, services, supplies, and equipment........................................................ - $ 87

- 303 

50 $ 10,612

C. Program Increases

1.27 7. Physical Security Upgrades from FY 2022 Fall Re-estimate.................................................................................... - $ 4,200

1.27 8. Additional Physical Security Upgrades......................................................................................................... $ 2,800

1.27 9. Supreme Court Courtyard Restoration............................................................................................................. - $ 15,900

 Subtotal, Program Increases............................................................................................................... - $ 22,900

 Total Fiscal Year 2023 Appropriation Required........................................................................................ 50 $ 33,512

- $ 23,203

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

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

 Total Appropriation Change, Fiscal Year 2022 to Fiscal Year 2023........................................................................

SUMMARY OF REQUEST

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

CARE OF THE BUILDING AND GROUNDS

FISCAL YEAR 2023

(Dollar amounts in thousands)

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Care of Building and Grounds, Total Obligations 16,439 23,500 30,562

Unobligated Balance, Start of Year (23,533) (17,712) (4,521)

Unobligated Balance, End of Year 17,712 4,521 7,471

.

Available Appropriation 10,618 10,309 33,512

11 Personnel compensation 4,500 4,680 4,958

12 Personnel benefits 1,780 1,851 1,962

21 Travel and transportation of things 0 3 4

23 Rent, communications and utilities 1,798 2,700 2,850

25 Other services 4,873 7,366 6,988

26 Supplies and materials 667 700 750

31 Equipment 98 0 150

32 Land and structures 2,723 6,200 12,900

Total Obligations 16,439 23,500 30,562

Fiscal Year 2021 Fiscal Year 2022 Fiscal Year 2023

Description Actual Assumed Request

Activity Actual Assumed Request

Obligations by Object Class ($000)

Fiscal Year 2021 Fiscal Year 2022 Fiscal Year 2023

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

CARE OF THE BUILDING AND GROUNDS

Obligations by Activity ($000)

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Fiscal Year 2022

Fiscal Year 2021 Assumed Fiscal Year 2023 Difference

Actuals Obligations Request (+) or (-)

Obligations incurred, net 16,439 23,500 30,562 7,062

Obligated balance, start of year 10,800 12,122 15,000 2,878

Adjustments to obligated balance (900) (1,000) (1,000) 0

Obligated balance, end of year (12,122) (15,000) (16,000) (1,000)

Outlays 14,217 19,622 28,562

Fiscal Year 2022

Fiscal Year 2021 Assumed Fiscal Year 2023 Difference

Actual FTE Request (+) or (-)

Total compensable workyears:

 Full-time equivalent employment 43 50 50 0

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

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES

CARE OF THE BUILDING AND GROUNDS

Relation of Obligations to Outlays ($000)

Personnel Summary1/

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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 includes such items as air conditioning, refrigeration, and ventilating systems with more than 1,000 pieces of equipment; 

electrical transformer stations and 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 2023, a total of 50 full-time equivalents (FTE) are 

expected to cover three shifts daily.The FY 2023 request for the Supreme Court, Building and Grounds account totals $33,512,000. 

This request includes funding to maintain current services and accounts for general inflationary increases. Also included in this request 

are $22,900,000 in program increases for physical security upgrades and courtyard restoration.

Projects under the Architect of the Capitol relating to the buildings and grounds in the Capitol campus are included in the Legislative 

Branch budget. However, projects pertaining to the buildings and grounds of the Supreme Court are presented within this account in 

the judiciary’s budget request. No projects are requested in this year’s budget request.

FISCAL YEAR 2022 APPROPRIATIONS

In the absence of enacted FY 2022 appropriation, the judiciary built the FY 2023 discretionary budget request for the Supreme Court 

Building and Grounds on an assumed FY 2022 appropriation of $10,309,000, which is the current services level. 

For bill language for this account, the judiciary used the relevant language from H.R. 4502, which includes the House-passed version of 

the Financial Services and General Government appropriations bill, 2022, as the closest approximation of eventual enacted FY 2022 

appropriations language, updated with the assumed funding level as described above. 

After full-year FY 2022 appropriations are enacted, the judiciary will re-estimate its FY 2023 budget request and transmit to the 

Appropriations Committees any changes to FY 2023 appropriation requirements and bill language. 
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Justification of Changes

The FY 2023 budget request for the Supreme Court of 

the United States, Care of the Building and Grounds 

appropriation, totals $33,512,000 and 50 FTEs. This 

represents an increase of $23,203,000, or 225.1 percent, 

from the FY 2022 assumed appropriation of 

$10,309,000.

Adjustments to maintain current services include funds 

for pay and benefits, cost increases for current staff, and 

adjustments for ongoing activities, such as inflationary 

increases in contract rates and charges for services, 

supplies, equipment, and other general inflationary 

increase. 

Program increases totaling $22,900,000 is requested for 

Physical Security Upgrades and for the Supreme Court 

Courtyard Restoration.

ADJUSTMENTS TO BASE TO MAINTAIN 

CURRENT SERVICES:

A. PERSONNEL

Pay and Benefit Adjustments

1. Proposed 2023 pay adjustment

Requested Increase: $140,000

The judiciary is assuming federal pay rates will increase 

by 4.6 percent in January 2023. The requested increase 

provides for the cost of nine months of the anticipated 

pay raise in FY 2023, from January 2023 to September 

2023. (If the pay adjustment included in the President’s 

FY 2023 budget request is different from this 4.6 percent 

guidance, the judiciary will revise this line item in its FY 

2023 budget re-estimate.)

2. Annualization of 2022 pay

adjustment

Requested Increase: $43,000

The requested increase provides for the annualized costs 

of the 2022 pay adjustment for Employment Cost Index 

(ECI) and locality pay. Federal pay rates increased by an 

average of 2.7 percent, effective as of January 2022. The 

requested increase provides for the cost of three months 

(from October 2022 to December 2022) of the 2022 pay 

increase in FY 2023.

3. Promotions and within-grade increases

Requested Increase: $40,000 

The requested increase provides for promotions, 

within-grade increases and other adjustments, such as 
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career ladder pay increases for support personnel. 

Increases for within-grades 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: $12,000

Based on information from the Office of Personnel 

Management, health benefit premium contributions are 

projected to increase by an average of 2.4 percent both in 

January 2022 and January 2023. The requested increase 

annualizes the 2022 premium increase and includes a 

nine-month provision for the increase anticipated for FY 

2023.

b. FICA adjustment

Requested Increase: $2,000

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 2022. The salary cap for 

OASDI increased from $142,800 to $147,000 in January 

2022. The requested amount is needed to pay the agency

contribution in FY 2023. 

5. One less compensable day

Requested Decrease: ($21,000) 

There is one less compensable day in FY 2023 than in FY 

2022. The requested decrease adjusts for personnel

compensation and benefits associated with one less 

compensable day.

B. OTHER ADJUSTMENTS

General Inflationary Adjustments

6. Inflationary increases in charges for

contracts, services, supplies, and

equipment

Requested Increase: $87,000

Consistent with guidance from the Office of 

Management and Budget, this request of $87,000 is 

required to fund inflationary increases of 2.0 percent 

for operating expenses such as travel, 

communications, printing, contractual services, 

supplies and materials, and furniture and equipment.
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C. PROGRAM INCREASES

7. Physical Security Upgrades from

FY 2022 Fall Re-estimate

Requested Increase: $4,200,000

Funding is requested for physical security upgrades 

pursuant to a comprehensive review and 

recommendations by security experts. The requested 

funding is needed for additional vehicle barricades, 

reinforced driveway gates, and other security-related 

projects. Funding for these purposes was requested in 

the Court’s FY 2022 fall re-estimate and is being 

requested again here pending enactment of 2022 fullyear appropriations.

8. Additional Security Upgrades

Requested Increase: $2,800,000

Funding is requested for a new police kiosk, utilities, 

and control systems supporting physical security 

infrastructure.

9. Supreme Court Courtyard Restoration

Requested Increase: $15,900,000

The Supreme Court’s courtyards and plazas include

stone carvings, fountains, plumbing, and electrical 

systems that are original to the building, constructed 

in 1935. Congress funded $4.8 million of this multiyear project in FY 2017. This request funds the

remaining stone restoration work in the courtyards as

well as the complete replacement of failed courtyard

electrical systems. Both projects will mitigate

significant safety concerns. This request also funds

fountain restoration, which replaces all mechanical

equipment and installs pH monitoring and controls

equipment for Supreme Court fountains located in the

courtyards and plazas. The new equipment will be

incorporated into the Building Automation System 

for controls and monitoring which will enhance 

energy efficiency and conserve substantial amounts 

of potable water.