Appropriations Language
 
 31.1. General.
 
   Appropriations language is prepared for the budget to transmit the
 request to Congress. Appropriations language is required on a separate
 page for each account for which appropriations or limitation language
 has been enacted in the current year or is proposed for the budget
 year.
   Appropriations language submissions contain:
   --language as enacted for the current year with the proposed changes
     for the budget year, if any; or
   --proposed language if none was enacted for the current year and it
     is required for the budget year; and
   --statutory references.
   For accounts that cover direct loan or guaranteed loan programs,
 appropriations language must be included for the subsidy costs, loan
 levels, and administrative expenses, unless specifically exempted by
 OMB (see section 31.5).
   Proposed substantive changes in appropriations language should
 accompany the initial budget submission to provide adequate time for
 consideration of revisions.
 
 31.2. Form of language submissions.
 
   Language submissions will be in the form of exhibit 31A or 31B. The
 text printed in the appropriations acts for the current year
 constitutes the primary source of material for the language
 submissions. OMB will furnish each agency reprinted galleys (see
 section 30.1) containing enacted current year appropriations language.
 If not available, OMB will provide copies of the enrolled bills
 showing appropriation items as they appear in the annual
 appropriations act, continuing resolution, or in supplemental,
 rescission, or other appropriations acts for the current year. These
 copies are for the use of the agency in preparing language submissions
 required by OMB and for the agency's own use. The print materials
 submission of each appropriation item will be prepared by pasting the
 language from the enrolled bill on a separate sheet of paper, with
 changes in the language or amount enclosed in brackets and new
 material indicated in the margin and underscored (see section 31.3).
   In preparing the language, all of the text in the appropriations act
 will be used, except the preamble and the title of the act. If the
 organizational unit is not identified as a heading in the text, it
 will be inserted at the top of the sheet. Where amounts have been
 appropriated in addition to the regular appropriations for the current
 year (e.g., supplemental or rescission action), the text from the
 additional appropriations will be pasted on the same sheet as the text
 from the annual act, and the title from the additional appropriation
 will be omitted (exhibit 31B). The citation for the additional
 appropriations will follow the specific language and will be shown in
 parentheses and underscored.  In cases where the entire amount
 available was provided in a supplemental or other appropriations act,
 the title and any immediately preceding organizational unit
 identification will appear in the same manner as items from an annual
 act.
   If no current year appropriation has been enacted, the proposed
 appropriation language will be typewritten as new material and
 underscored. If an appropriation for the current year is provided in a
 continuing resolution, the proposed language will be prepared as
 follows:
   --where the continuing resolution includes specific language by
     account, that language will be submitted in the same manner as
     language that was provided in a regular appropriations act;
   --where the continuing resolution enacts specific language by
     reference to an appropriations bill, the agency OMB representative
     will provide guidance on preparation of the language submissions;
   --where the continuing resolution refers only to a level or rate
     (e.g., to the lower of the House or Senate level, Senate level, or
     current rate), the proposed language for the budget year will be
     submitted as new material. An explanatory note will be provided by
     OMB for insertion following the language.
 
 31.3. Changes in language and amounts.
 
   Changes to appropriations language will be made as follows:
   --When a change in the language, amount, or account title is
     proposed for enactment by Congress, any material to be omitted
     will be enclosed in brackets [].
   --New material will be typewritten (double-spaced, if practicable)
     and underscored in the right margin of the page on which the
     printed material is pasted.
   --New material should always follow bracketed material, even though
     bracketed material may be only figures while new material includes
     additional language.
   --Amounts will be stated in dollars rounded to the nearest thousand
     (e.g., $10,951,000; not $10,950,768).
   --A caret (:) and line should indicate clearly the place where the
     new material will be inserted.
   --Brackets, carets, and insert lines are to be made in ink (not
     typed).
   --Care should be taken not to obliterate pre-existing punctuation
     marks.
 
 31.4. Statutory references.
 
   Following the appropriations language, supporting statutory
 references and special notes applicable to the budget year will be
 inserted in parentheses and underscored. Agencies will furnish and are
 responsible for the correctness of all statutory references.
   These references will be shown in the following sequence:
   (1) Basic authorizing legislation (including currently effective
     amendments), treaty, or executive order that continues in effect
     during the budget year (omit if the reference is cited in the body
     of the language). Such citations will usually be by reference to
     the United States Code. Citations should be in this order of
     preference:
     --to the United States Code; or
     --to the public law number; or
     --to the popular title of the law (if there is one); or
     --to the date of the Act followed by the applicable volume  and
       page of the Statutes at Large.
     Executive orders will be cited by number. Citations to the same
   title of the U.S. Code should be consolidated, and titles (and
   sections thereunder) should be listed in ascending numerical order. 
   Avoid multiple citations to the same legislation.
   (2) The appropriations act from which the text of the appropriations
     language has been taken.--Generally, references will be to the
     short title of the entire act. If an appropriations act provides a
     citation for a specific title, that citation will be used. If the
     act or title thereof has no short title, the agency's OMB budget
     representative will specify the citation to be used. (When two or
     more appropriations act citations are required, e.g., a regular
     appropriations act and a supplemental appropriation act, each
     citation will follow the appropriations language to which it is
     applicable.) Where language in an appropriations bill was enacted
     by reference in a continuing resolution, the continuing resolution
     (not the referenced bill) will be cited.
 
 31.5. Appropriations language for credit programs.
 
   Each program account associated with a direct loan or loan guarantee
 program must contain a request for an appropriation for the subsidy
 costs on a net present value basis, the loan level supportable by that
 subsidy, and administrative expenses for operating the credit program.
   Where loans are disbursed within 5 years of obligation, the
 following standard subsidy appropriation language should be used, as
 appropriate:
 
   [For the cost of direct loans, $------,] [and] [for the cost of
   guaranteed loans, $------,] as authorized by [authorizing statute]:
   Provided, That such costs, including the cost of modifying such
   loans, shall be as defined in section 502 of the Congressional
   Budget Act of 1974: Provided further, That these funds are available
   to subsidize [gross obligations for the principal amount of direct
   loans not to exceed $------] [and] [total loan principal, any part
   of which is to be guaranteed, not to exceed $------.] In addition,
   for administrative expenses to carry out the [direct] [and]
   [guaranteed] loan program[s], $------.
 
   Where administrative expenses are proposed to be transferred to a
 salaries and expenses account, the following phrase should be
 substituted for the last sentence above:
 
   In addition, for administrative expenses to carry out the [direct]
   [and] [guaranteed] loan program[s], $------, which shall be
   transferred to and merged with the appropriation for [name of
   account].
 
   Where loans are disbursed beyond the 5 year period after obligation,
 add the following phrase:
 
   Provided, That such sums are to remain available through 19XX for
   the disbursement of loans obligated in fiscal year 19BY.
 
   When agencies believe that the nature of a program requires a
 modification of the specified language, an exception may be requested
 in accordance with section 11.6.
 
 31.6. Explanations relating to appropriations language.
 
   No explanations or justifications will be written on the language
 submissions, except notes required for printing as indicated above.
 The following material must be submitted separately to support the
 language submissions:
   --an explanation and justification of all proposed changes in the
     language of the appropriation, other than changes in amounts,
     including changes to general and administrative provisions;
   --a list of new provisions in the proposed language and explanation
     of the purpose of each;
   --a list of all provisions (old or new) in the proposed language
     that are subject to a point of order under the rules of either
     House of Congress, the reason for including them in the proposed
     language, and the steps, if any, that have been taken to remedy
     the point of order situation; and
   --a copy of a letter from the Office of Personnel Management
     approving any new provisions that relate to employment of
     personnel without regard to civil service or classification laws.