The office of Management and Budget requests
appropriation of $24,150,000 for fiscal
year 1976.
This request reflects an increase of $3,150,000 over
the Office's 1975 appropriation of $21,000,000.
Approval of a pending supplemental of $500,000 to
cover the custs of pay increases authorized by
Executive Order 11811 of October 7, 1974 will reduce
this increase accordingly.

for
costs

In the 1976 budget request, the increase of
$1,413,000 over the estimated 1976 base
personnel compensation is composed of
representing
and
nondiscretionary
administrative
increases. Nondiscretionary increases of $899,000
includes, among other things, full year cost of the
October 1974 pay increase and the cost of 2 extra
days.

The administrative increase of $514,000 will
support an increase of 22 man years of permanent
employment and other increases in temporary, part-
time, intermittent, and overtime. This allows the
Office to function at the 1975 estimated level of
employment before administrative adjustments were
made to
accommodate the congressional reduction in
the FY 1975 appropriation request.

As a result of these nondiscretionary and administrative increases, the concomitant increase in personnel benefits is $115,000.

Over

the

Increases totaling $1,642,000
estimated 1976 Fase are requested in the object
classifications other than personnel
and benefits.

This

compensation
represents an increase of
$174,000 for travel; $593,000
for rent,
communications, and utilities; $318,000 for
printing; $396,000 for other services; $45,000 for
supplies and materials; and $116,000 for equipment.
Nondiscretionary increases account for 76.8% of the
excluding
personnel
These increases

total

increases,

reflect

an

classifications.
inflationary factor plus other fixed costs
summarized as follows: $148,000 increase in space
rental estimated by the General Services
Administration; $335,000 increase in Automatic Data
Processing support; and a 25% increase over 1975
costs of printing estimated by Government Printing
Office. Additional increases are based on increased
costs 'for FTS Intercity Telephone Service, hotel
accommodations, commercial carriers, equipment,
contractual services, and equipment rentals.

The following summary and budget plan highlight the increases reflected in the 1976 budget request.

WORKLOAD OF THE OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET

The variety and complexity of the work involved
in functioning as staff to the President makes it
difficult to encompass all the workload of the
Office of Management and Budget in
statement. However, the continuing work responsi-
bilities of the office set forth below describe
Most significant

workload toward which

budget request is directed.

PROGRAM AND BUDGET REVIEW

a

brief

the the 1976

BUDGET REVIEW DIVISION

The following factors affect workload in the Budget Review Division:

the

office's

The rapid growth in size and complexity
programs in recent years was accompanied
1.
Government
workload associated
by a rapid growth in the
preparing and executing the budget.

of

with

location of resources within the framework of
sound economic and fiscal policy to meet the needs
Every effort must be
of the Nation.
spending to the minimum necessary
programs effectively, and to see
a dollar's
gets
that is spent.
accompanied by
larger sense.

made to hold
to accomplish
that the Nation
worth of results for each dollar
must be
Surveillance of efficiency
effectiveness in the
attention to
to
Thus, agencies are not encouraged
those things which are useless, but
to put their efforts into doing that which
useful to the Nation and doing it efficiently.

do

the

efficiently

is

most

The workload of the Budget Review
has been increased substantially by the requirements
3.
and Impoundment Control Act of 1974
The Act makes fundamental changes in
of the Budget
(P.L. 93-344)
and
process
congressional budget
the information required of OME by
considerably to
Because these changes and information
effective
the Congress.
requirements do not
fiscal year
add to the
year

2. Major changes in the composition of Federal

a.

Change in fiscal year.

programs workload. The

are

a

continuing

dynamics

source of of program

require not

only

that

new proposed

analyzed in

depth,

but that

additional
developments
programs
efforts be directed

be

continuously toward evaluating existing programs

proposed for elimination or reform.

SO

that are of

be

low priority or are and identified

necessitate

Government's

program and budget review is Consideration The directed toward several objectives. given to fitting the programs and the almust be

the fiscal year start beginning

October 1
1
from July
1976 with a 3-month transition period
1976.
30,
September
to
1976,
Management

responsibility of

issuing instructions to the agencies and preparing,

legislation
This requirement

Congress, any
for submission to the
necessary to implement the change.
substantial
will also

changes in the

budget documents to accommodate the presentation information on the transition period.

of

The

and

Budget

overseeing

the

has transition

the

by