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Fiscal Law Review and
2012 Update
Presenters:
Maj Airon Mothershed, ESC/JAS
Mr. Peter Camp, ESC/JAS
14 March 2012
“I want to learn federal Fiscal Law and I don't care if it takes all afternoon!”
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DISCLAIMER
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED IN THIS PRESENTATION ARE THOSE OF THE
PRESENTERS AND MAY NOT REFLECT THE OFFICIAL POLICY OR POSITION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE OR THE
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
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Overview
• Fiscal Law’s Three Pillars– Purpose– Time– Amount
• Exceptions• Sanctions & the Antideficiency Act (ADA)
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Purpose
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Purpose: Sources of Law• United States Constitution• United States Code• Authorization Acts
– Authorize Projects– Authorize Appropriations– Enact Permanent Legislation
• Appropriations Acts
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Purpose: Where It All Begins
“No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law…”U.S. Const., Art I, Sec. 9, Cl. 7
Meaning: Only Congress can determine the purposes for which public funds may be disbursed
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The Purpose Statute31 U.S.C. § 1301(a)
The Act of March 3, 1809, addressing perceived abuses by the military
departments
Little Turtle
St. Clair’s Defeat, Northwest Indian War
Maj Gen Arthur St. Clair Samuel Hodgdon
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“Appropriations shall be applied only to the objects for which the appropriations were made except as otherwise provided by law.”
31 U.S.C. § 1301(a)
The Purpose Statute31 U.S.C. § 1301(a)
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“The established rule is that the expenditure of public funds is proper only when established by Congress, not that public funds may be expended unless prohibited by Congress.”U.S. v. MacCollom, 426 U.S. 317 (1976)
Purpose: “The Half Empty Glass” Rule
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“It is difficult to see how a legislative prohibition could be expressed in stronger terms. The law is plain and any disbursing officer disregards it at his peril.”
4 Comp. Dec. 569, 570 (1898)
You don’t need to be a pessimist to understand fiscal law, but it helps.
Purpose: “The Half Empty Glass” Rule
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Purpose: Sources of Law• United States Constitution• United States Code• Authorization Acts
– Authorize Projects– Authorize Appropriations– Enact Permanent Legislation
• Appropriations Acts
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MilitaryDepartments
DepartmentOf Defense
President(OMB)
Congress
ServiceBudgets
DoD Budget
authorizations process
appropriations process
Apportionment
CBOReport
Concurrent BudgetResolution
BudgetExecution
Testimony & Appeals
FEB APR MAY JUL SEPT OCT
NationalBudget
Allocation
MAR JUN AUG
National Defense Authorization
Act
DoD Appropriations
Act
joint conference
joint conference
THE PROCESS OF ENACTMENT
PEO/MAJCOM (AFMC)Program Managers/Units
Allotment
Suballocation
See DOD 7000.14-R (FMR), Vol .14 12
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Purpose: Sources of Law Appropriations Act
– Appropriations Acts – 31 U.S.C. § 1301 (d)
– Don’t Exceed Appropriations Without Congress’ Express Authority
– Other Public Laws– Opinions
Appropriations for DoD are differentiated by Service (Air Force, Army, etc.) and Component (Active, Reserve, etc.) and Purpose (O&M, Personnel, etc.) – Nearly 100 separate appropriations in all!
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Purpose
• Major Appropriations– Personnel – pay and allowances, PCS, etc.– O&M – operations and maintenance of installations,
day-to-day expenses of training exercises, deployments, etc.
– Procurement – production and modification of missiles, aircraft, etc.
– RDT&E – basic and applied scientific research, etc.– MILCON – military construction
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Purpose:31 U.S.C. § 1301(a)
• Three-part test– Particular statutory purpose or “Necessary Expense”
• Congress does not specify every item of expenditure in an Appropriations Act.
• Agencies have “reasonable discretion”• Expenditures must be “reasonably necessary” or
“contribute materially”– Not prohibited by law– Not otherwise provided for
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Purpose
• Operation and Maintenance, Air Force [3400] “For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the operation and maintenance of the Air Force, as authorized by law; and not to exceed $7,699,000 can be used for emergencies and extraordinary expenses, to be expended on the approval or authority of the Secretary of the Air Force, and payments may be made on his certificate of necessity for confidential military purposes, $34,985,486,000.”– Pub. L. No. 112-74, Title II
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Purpose
• General Provisions (Title VIII) • Using funds made available by this Act or any other Act, the
Secretary of the Air Force, pursuant to a determination under section 2690 of title 10, United States code, may implement cost-effective agreements for required heating facility modernization in the Kaiserslautern Military Community in the [FRG]: Provided, That in the City of Kaiserslautern and at the Rhine Ordnance Barracks area, such agreements will include the use of United States anthracite as the base load energy for municipal district heat to the United States Defense installations….– Pub. L. No. 112-74 § 8054
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Purpose: Continuing Resolutions
• Legislation that permits continuing operations in absence of an Appropriation Act
• Generally at current or lower rate• General provisions of prior year apply• No new programs may start
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Purpose: Augmentation
• Generally, it is impermissible to augment an appropriation– By paying out of the wrong appropriation– Miscellaneous Receipts violation
• “Except as provided in section 3718(b) [ ] of this title, an official or agent of the Government receiving money for the Government from any source shall deposit the money in the Treasury as soon as practicable without deduction for any charge or claim.” 31 U.S.C. § 3302(b)
– Accepting voluntary services without statutory authority
• Obtain agreement (no cost) in writing – in advance!
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Purpose: Investment/Expense Threshold
• Expenses are costs of resources consumed in operating and maintaining DoD– Normally financed with O&M funds
• Investments are acquisitions of DoD capital assets– Normally financed with Procurement funds
• System cost >= $250,000 (Current threshold)• Computer buys need careful scrutiny
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Purpose & Construction• Construction vs. Repair
– Repair = O&M funds – Minor Construction
• <= $750,000 O&M (or <= $1.5M if to correct a deficiency that threatens life, health or safety) per 10 U.S.C. 2805(c).
– Unspecified Minor Military Construction • <= $2.0M (or <= $3M if to correct a deficiency which threatens life, health or
safety) per 10 U.S.C. 2805(a)• Secretarial approval• Congressional notification (wait 21 days (14 days if the notice is submitted
electronically))
– Specified Military Construction– No Project Splitting!
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Purpose: Recent Cases• Election Assistance Commission (EAC) – Obligation of Fiscal Year
2004 Req’ts Payments Appropriations, B-318831, Apr. 28, 2010– EAC violated the purpose statute when it obligated funds for certain grant
expenditures to an appropriation that was available only for requirements payments to states
– Plain language of the statute was clear– GAO held that agencies must comply with the plain meaning in their
appropriations
• Architect of the Capitol (AOC) – Availability of Funds for Battery Recharging Stations for POVs, B-320116, Sept. 15, 2010– AOC asked GAO to make a decision as to whether appropriated funds could be
used to purchase recharging stations for privately owned hybrid or electric vehicles
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• U.S. Dept. of the Navy v. Federal Labor Relations Authority, DC Circuit No. 10-1304, January 13, 2012– For years, Naval Station Newport, RI, purchased bottled water for its federal
employees with appropriated funds because of lead piping in some water fountains
– By 2005, the Navy replaced all of the water fountains, bottled water was no longer necessary. Navy stopped providing it
– The Labor Union argues free water bottles = employee benefit arising from custom or practice of that workplace
– Arbitration: Arbitrator & FLRA agree with Union, Navy appeals The Navy appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals
– Court of Appeals:: appropriated funds may be used only for “necessary” expenses and bottled water was not a necessary expense.
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Purpose: Recent Cases
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Time
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Time
• Most appropriations have a period of availability– Specified time available for obligation
• May not obligate before appropriation and receipt• Must be obligated before they expire• Exceptions are rare (statutory)
– Once obligated, disbursement may be made before or after expired, but before closed
– Appropriations close five years after they expire• There is no longer an M account
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Time & Availability• Congress determines the period of availability for each
appropriation• Generally
– O&M – 1 year– Personnel – 1 year– RDT&E – 2 years– Procurement – 3 years– MILCON – 5 years
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Time & Obligation• “Obligation means a legally binding agreement that
will result in outlays, immediately or in the future. When you place an order, sign a contract, award a grant, purchase a service, or take other actions that require the Government to make payments to the public or from one Government account to another, you incur an obligation.”– OMB Circular A-11 (2010), at ¶ 20.5(a)
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• The balance of an appropriation limited for obligation to a definite period of time is available only for: – payment of expenses properly incurred– during the period of availability or– to complete contracts properly made
within that period of availability
Time and the Bona Fide Need
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• May expend fiscal year funds only for the bona fide needs of that same fiscal year.– 31 U.S.C. § 1502(a)
• So, just what constitutes a bona fide need on 30 September?
Time and the Bona Fide Need
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• U.S. Small Business Administration – Indefinite-Delivery Indefinite Quantity Contract Guaranteed Minimum, B-321640, Sep. 19, 2011– SBA had an IDIQ contract for computer hardware and software that the SBA
intended to purchase. The IDIQ contract provided for 1 base year and four 1-year options.
– When initially executed, the contract provided for a $290,000 guaranteed minimum for the base year (2009); this was later modified. The modification increased the base year minimum to $1,315,000. SBA then obligated an aggregate of $1,860,000 in FY 2010.
– Held: While an Agency may exercise its discretion in setting the guaranteed minimum in an IDIQ contract, this discretion is not unlimited. The stated minimum should not exceed the amount the Government is fairly certain to order.
– GAO further determined: There was a violation. The totality of facts and circumstances here suggested a bona fide need in these amounts (over $1 million each for 2009/2010) did not exist.
Time and the Bona Fide Need:
Recent Case
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• The determination of a bona fide need depends largely on the facts and circumstances, such as –– agency mission– nature of the requirement– types of services/supplies– type of contract/agreement– timing of contract/agreement
Time and the Bona Fide Need
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• If supplies cannot be acquired in the same fiscal year in which a bona fide need for those supplies arises, delivery in a subsequent fiscal year is OK when:– Time between contract execution and
recording the obligation and delivery is not excessive, and
– Supplies are not standard commercial items readily available elsewhere
Time and the Bona Fide Need:
Supply Contracts Spanning Fiscal Years
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• Services – FY of performance– Nonseverable services– Statutory exception 10 U.S.C. § 2410a for
severable services which do not exceed one year• Allows us to break the fiscal year cycle
Time and the Bona Fide Need:
Services Contracts Spanning Fiscal Years
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• National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) – Recording Obligations for Training and Court Reporting, B-321296, Jul. 13, 2011
- 4QFY10: NLRB awarded 37 court reporting services contracts- Including: 1 year base period 27 Sep 10 – 26 Sep 10 + 4 option periods- T NLRB recorded obligations of $876,373.91 for the 37 contracts (NLRB’s
estimate of the year’s needs for court reporting services, based on prior years’ experience)
- Issue: Did NLRB properly record obligations where the amounts were based upon an estimate of the total cost of services that NLRB would order during the period of the contract?
- GAO Held: NLRB properly obligated the FY 2010 funds for the entire contract, based on a reasonable estimate.
- As performance continues, NLRB should deobligate amounts if it realizes that it overestimated the quantity of services that it would order under the contracts, or conversely, obligate additional funds if more services are anticipated
Time and the Bona Fide Need:
Services Contracts Spanning Fiscal YearsRecent Case
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Amount
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Amount
• May not make or authorize an obligation or expenditure that exceeds an amount available in an appropriation or fund– 31 U.S.C. § 1341(a)(1)(A)
• Includes expired appropriations• Statutory restriction or prohibition may make
amount available ZERO!
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Amount• Sec. 8035(a): “None of the funds appropriated in this Act
may be expended by an entity of the Department of Defense unless the entity, in expending the funds, complies with the Buy American Act….”– Pub. L. No. 112-74
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Amount• May not make or authorize an obligation or
expenditure that exceeds an apportionment.– 31 U.S.C. § 1517(a)(1)
• An apportionment is a distribution by OMB of amounts available for specified time periods, activities, projects or objects.
• This statute does not prohibit obligating in advance of an apportionment. (But, do not obligate in advance of the appropriation without authority….)
See Slide 1338
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Amount
• May not make or authorize an obligation or expenditure that exceeds a formal subdivision established by regulations– 31 U.S.C. § 1517(a)(2)
• Allocations and allotments are formal subdivisions• Allowances are not formal
subdivisions
See Slide 1339
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Amount
• Open-ended indemnification provisions violate 31 U.S.C. § 1341– What does your software license say???– There are exceptions to this rule – but they are statutory!
• A judgment by a court or board of contract appeals in excess of an appropriation or subdivision of funds is not a violation
• Penalties for failure to exercise an option may be violations
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Exceptions
• Congress may authorize a contract in advance or in excess of an appropriation– Ex: 41 U.S.C. § 11 permits DoD to contract for clothing,
subsistence, etc. for the current fiscal year – That is contract authority, not disbursement authority
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Exceptions
• Contracts conditioned on the availability of funds– Solicitation and contract include the clause FAR 52.232-
18, Availability of Funds
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5 Easy Waysto
Violate the ADA!• Violate the Bona Fide Need Rule
– Wrong Fiscal Year Violated – 31 U.S.C. 1502(a)– May Lead To An ADA Violation
• Violate the Purpose Statute– Obligation Charged Against Inappropriate Account – 31 U.S.C. 1301– May Lead to an ADA Violation
• Obligate/Expend In Excess of or in Advance of an Appropriation –31 U.S.C. 1341(a)– Automatic ADA Violation– E.g., DFARS Clause….
• Obligate/Expend in Excess of an Apportionment or an Administrative Subdivision – 31 U.S.C. 1517(a)– Automatic ADA Violation
• Accepting Voluntary Services or employing personal services not authorized by law, except in cases of emergency involving the safety of human life or the protection of property—31 U.S.C. Section 1342
– Automatic ADA Violation– Lawful alternatives may exist--see Slide 19!
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Sanctions• Disciplinary Actions
– Military Members• Administrative Counseling Court-Martial
– Federal Employees• Oral Admonishment Removal (+ Prosecution)
– “The fact that a violation was not willfully and knowingly committed does not, by itself, justify the absence of disciplinary actions.” AFI 65-608, ¶ 2.11.1
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Sanctions• Class E felony (knowing/willful)
– $5,000 fine, confinement of up to 2 years, or both
• 31 U.S.C. §§ 1350, 1519 – If you suspect a potential ADA violation, you
must report it to the Comptroller within 10 days. Knowing and willful concealment of a violation is a crime!
• Reporting procedures may be found in AFI 65-608, ¶ 3.3
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Sanctions
• SecDef must report violations to the President (through OMB) and to Congress
• This is not your 15 minutes of fame!
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Summary
• Fiscal Law’s Three Pillars– Purpose– Time– Amount
• Exceptions• Sanctions
Questions?
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Backup Slides
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Appropriations Committee:• Authorizes use of funds to Accomplish Programs. •Provides Funding (Budget Authority)
Puts money into the checking account
Budget Committees:• Sets overall budget ceilings
Authorization Committees:• Provide Authority to Accomplish Certain Programs
• Specifies Program Levels• Manpower Programs• Number of Aircraft, etc.
• Handles Policy Matters
Opens the checking account
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A COMPARISON
Authorizations
• Provides permission
and direction on how
to spend funds
• Policy oriented
• Separate bills written
in House and Senate• Generally permanent
law• The Authorization Act
does not provide budget authority
Appropriations• Provides budget authority
or permission to draw
funds from the US
Treasury
• Budget oriented
• Bill traditionally
originates in House • Senate modifies House bill
• Generally one-year law
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APPROPRIATIONS ARE TIME BOUND
FY '06 FY '07 FY 08 FY '09 FY '10 FY '11 FY '12 FY '13 FY '14 FY '14 FY-15
O&M 3400
RDT&E 3600
PROCUREMENT3080
MILPERS 3300
MILCON 3500
Current. Available for obligation.
Expired. It is available only for recording, adjusting, and .liquidating obligations properly chargeable to that appropriation
Cancelled. Closed Appropriation. Not available for any purpose.
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Severable or Non-Severable?Services? Severable? Non-Severable?
e.g., Non-personal services, Advisory and Assistance Services (A&AS), Base Services Can the service be separated into components that independently meet a separate need of the Government?
Yes. The service is “severable”
As a general rule, severable services are the bona fide needs of the fiscal year in which performed. (Matter of Incremental Funding of Multiyear Contracts, B-241415, 71 Comp. Gen 428 (1992)). Therefore, funding of severable service contracts generally may not cross fiscal years and the Service should fund the services with current year dollars.
Does the service produce a single or unified outcome, product or report that cannot be subdivided for separate performance in different fiscal years?
Yes. The service is “non-severable”.
In consequence, the Service must fund the entire effort with dollars that are current (available) for obligation at the time the contract is executed. (DFAS-IN 37-1, tbl. 8-1)
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