Consolidated Federal Funds Report Amendments of 1985
PL 99-547 (H.R.3168), enacted 10/27/1986

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PUBLIC LAW 99-547—OCT. 27, 1986 
100 STAT. 3057 
Public Law 99-547 
99th Congress 
An Act 
To require the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to prepare an 
annual report consolidating the available data on the geographic distribution of 
Federal funds, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. This Act may be cited as the "Consolidated Federal 
Funds Report Amendments of 1985". 
SEC. 2. (a) Title 31, United States Code, is amended by inserting 
after chapter 61 the following new chapter: 
"CHAPTER 62—CONSOLIDATED FEDERAL FUNDS 
REPORT 
"Sec. 
"6201. Definitions. 
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"6202. Content, form, and data for report. 
"6203. Printing and distribution of reports and machine-readable records. 
"6204. Delegation. 
"6205. Availability of information. 
"6206. Data consistency and uniformity of data elements. 
"6207. Authorization of appropriations. 
"§ 6201. Definitions 
"As used in this chapter, the term— 
"(1) 'Director' means the Director of the Office of Manage-
ment and Budget; 
"(2) 'State' means any State, the Commonwealth of Puerto 
Rico, the District of Columbia, Guam, American Samoa, the 
Virgin Islands, the Government of the Northern Mariana 
'^'^ Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands; and 
"(3) 'municipality' means any subcounty unit of general local 
government that received Federal assistance in the fiscal year 
that is the subject of the report. 
"§ 6202. Content, form and data for report 
"(a) For fiscal years 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, and 1990, not later 
than 180 days after the end of each fiscal year, the Director shall 
prepare a Consolidated Federal Funds Report presenting the total 
amount of Federal funds that were obligated for expenditure or 
expended in each State, county or parish, congressional district, and 
municipality of the United States in appropriate general categories 
of Federal funds during the preceding fiscal year. To the extent 
practicable, such categories shall be consistently constituted from 
year to year. The report shall be in the form described in subsection 
(b) and shall be based on the data referred to in subsection (c). 
"(b) The Director shall include in each report required by subsec-
tion (a)— 
"(1) the total amount of Federal funds that were reported 
obligated for expenditure in each State, county or parish, 
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Consolidated 
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Report 
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1985. 
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31 u s e 6101 et 
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congressional district, and municipality of the United States in 
appropriate general categories of Federal funds in the fiscal 
year preceding the fiscal year in which the report is made; or 
"(2) the total amount of Federal funds that were reported 
actually expended in each State, county or parish, congressional 
district, and municipality of the United States in appropriate 
categories in the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year in which 
the report is made. 
Grants. 
"(c) The report required by subsection (a) shall be based on the 
Loans. 
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data included in— 
"(1) the Federal assistance awards data system established 
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pursuant to section 6102a of this title; 
"(2) the Federal procurement data system established pursu-
ant to section 6(d)(5) of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy 
Act (41 U.S.C. 405(d)(5)); 
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"(3) the appropriate data files of the Office of Personnel 
Management; 
"(4) the payroll, pension, and grants files of the Office of the 
Secretary of Defense; 
"(5) the appropriate data files of the United States Postal 
Service and the Postal Rate Commission; 
"(6) the data system used by the Bureau of the Census to 
prepare the annual Federal aid to States report; 
Uniformed 
"(7) the retirement and disability files of the United States 
services. 
Coast Guard, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Commis-
sioned Corps of the Public Health Service, the Commissioned 
Corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra-
tion, and the Foreign Service; 
Insurance. 
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"(8) the insurance claims files of the Federal Emergency 
Management Agency and the Department of Agriculture; 
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"(9) the grants files of the Legal Services Corporation; 
Taxes. 
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"(10) the excess earned income tax credit file of the Internal 
Revenue Service; 
"(11) the appropriate data files of the National Railroad 
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Passenger Corporation; and 
"(12) the payroll file of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. 
Grants. 
"(d) For the purposes of subsection (b), the general categories of 
Loans. 
Federal funds presented in each report required by subsection (a) 
Contracts. 
shs\\ include data with respect to grants, loans, purchases and 
or'^gani^tton 
contracts. Cooperative agreements, direct Federal payments to 
and employees. 
individuals, pay of civilian employees of the Government, military 
Retirement. 
pay, annuities, retirement pay, pensions, and disability compensa-
tion. 
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"§ 6203. Printing and distribution of reports and machine-readable 
records 
V "(aXD The Director shall— 
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"(A) prepare— 
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"(i) printed copies of each of the reports required by this 
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chapter; and 
"(ii) machine-readable records of such reports; and 
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"(B) make the printed copies of the reports and the machine-
information, 
readable records available to the public for purchase at a price 
fixed under subsection (b). 
"(2) The Director shall transmit free of charge one of each of the 
printed copies of the reports required by this chapter to— 
Libraries. 
"(A) each Federal regional depository library; 
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"(B) the Committees on Government Operations, the Budget, 
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and Appropriations of the House of Representatives; and 
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"(C) the Committees on Governmental Affairs, the Budget, 
and Appropriations of the Senate. 
*'(3) The Director shall also transmit promptly after the end of 
each calendar year, free of charge, one machine-readable record of 
the report required by section 6202 to the (])ommittee on Rules and 
Administration of the Senate and to the Committee on House 
Administration of the House of Representatives. 
"(4) Subject to subsection (b), the Director may, at his discretion, 
waive all or part of the fee required by subsection (aXlXB) of this 
section. 
"(b) In carrying out subsection (aXl)(B), the Director shall, based 
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on the estimates made under paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subsec- 
information, 
tion, fix the price of each printed copy and each machine-readable 
record of the report so that the aggregate revenues obtained in each 
fiscal year under subsection (a) will cover as much as is feasible of 
the incremental costs incurred in making these reports and 
machine-readable records available for purchase by the public. In 
computing these costs the Director shall not consider the costs of the 
activities set forth in sections 6102a and 6205 of this title but shall 
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consider— 
"(1) the cost of compiling the reports required by this chapter; 
preparing the printed copies and machine-readable records 
under subsection (a); and distributing the printed copies and the 
machine-readable records of the report for each fiscal year; and 
"(2) the number of printed copies and the number of machine-
readable records of the report that will be purchased. 
"§ 6204. Delegation 
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"In order to carry out sections 6202 and 6203 of this chapter, the 
Director may delegate to any authority of the executive branch of 
the Federal Government the responsibility for carrying out such 
sections. The Director shall oversee the activities of any authority to 
which responsibilities are delegated under this section and shall 
monitor the compliance of each authority with respect to the 
requirements set forth in section 6205. 
"§ 6205. Availability of information 
"Each head of any authority of the Government having custody of 
the data files and systems referred to in section 6202(c)— 
"(1) shall make available to the Director (or other authority to 
which the Director has delegated the responsibility to carry out 
such section) the information requested in the form designated; 
and 
"(2) is authorized to make available to the Director (or such 
other authority) such administrative services, equipment, 
personnel, and facilities (and funds appropriated therefor) as 
the Director or such authority requires to carry out such 
section. 
"§ 6206. Data consistency and uniformity of data elements 
"The Director shall designate a single organizational unit to 
provide for data consistency and uniform reporting of data elements. 
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*'§ 6207. Authorization of appropriations 
"There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this chapter 
such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 1986, 
1987,1988,1989, and 1990.". 
(bXD Section 6102a of title 31, United States Code, is amended by 
adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: 
"(c) The Director shall transmit promptly after the end of each 
calendar quarter, free of charge, the data in the system required by 
subsection (a) to the Committee on Rules and Administration of the 
Senate and to the Committee on House Administration of the House 
of Representatives.". 
(2) Section 6101(4XB) of such title is amended by striking out 
everything after "does not include" and inserting "assistance from 
an agency for an agency". 
(c) The table of chapters for subtitle V of title 31, United States 
Code, is amended by inserting after the item pertaining to chapter 
61 the following new item: 
"62. Consolidated Federal Funds Report 
6201". 
Effective date. 
(d) Effective on May 1, 1986, the Consolidated Federal Funds 
31 use 6102 
Report Act of 1982 is repealed. 
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Approved October 27, 1986. 
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LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 3168: 
HOUSE REPORTS: No. 99-452 (eomm. on Government Operations). 
eONGRESSIONAL REGORD, Vol. 132 (1986): 
Mar. 4, considered and passed House. 
Oct. 8, considered and passed Senate.