[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 164 (Thursday, August 23, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Page 42709]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-18249]


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OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET


OMB Sequestration Update Report to the President and Congress for 
Fiscal Year 2019

AGENCY: Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and 
Budget.

ACTION: Notice of availability of the OMB Sequestration Update Report 
to the President and Congress for FY 2019.

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SUMMARY: OMB is issuing the OMB Sequestration Update Report to the 
President and Congress for Fiscal Year 2019 to report on the status of 
the discretionary caps and on the compliance of pending discretionary 
appropriations legislation with those caps.

DATES: The report is effective on August 20, 2018.

ADDRESSES: The OMB Sequestration Reports to the President and Congress 
is available on-line on the OMB home page at: https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/legislative/sequestration-reports-orders/.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Thomas Tobasko, 6202 New Executive 
Office Building, Washington, DC 20503, Email address: 
[email protected], telephone number: (202) 395-5745, FAX number: 
(202) 395-4768. Because of delays in the receipt of regular mail 
related to security screening, respondents are encouraged to use 
electronic communications.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 254 of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 requires the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) to issue a Sequestration Update Report by August 20th 
of each year. With regard to this update report and to each of the 
three required sequestration reports, section 254(b) specifically 
mandates that each report required by this section shall be submitted, 
in the case of CBO, to the House of Representatives, the Senate and OMB 
and, in the case of OMB, to the House of Representatives, the Senate, 
and the President on the day it is issued and that OMB publish a notice 
announcing the report in the Federal Register. For fiscal year 2018, 
the report finds enacted appropriations to be at the spending limits. 
For fiscal year 2019, the report finds that, if the current caps remain 
unchanged, actions to date by the House of Representatives for the 12 
annual appropriations bills would remain within both the defense and 
non-defense caps under OMB estimates. The report also finds that 
actions by the Senate for non-defense programs are within the caps but 
slightly over the defense cap by $7 million. OMB does not believe the 
breach in the defense cap by the Senate would trigger a sequestration 
in 2019, if enacted, because the breach can be attributed to estimating 
differences OMB has with the Congressional Budget Office and the 
Congress is expected to enact and allowance (as it has done in previous 
years) to account for such differences. Finally, the report contains 
OMB's Preview Estimate of the Disaster Relief Funding Adjustment for FY 
2019. The calculation of the Preview Estimate takes into account 
changes in the disaster formula enacted in the Consolidated 
Appropriations Act, 2018.

John Mulvaney,
Director.
[FR Doc. 2018-18249 Filed 8-22-18; 8:45 am]
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