1.B: Budget Documents
Ensure that the budget documents are timely, accurate and of high quality. Provide prompt and accurate scoring for legislation
that affects the budget.
Other Information:
Relationship to Annual Performance Goals: This objective lends itself to clear, quantifiable measures of performance, such
as the timeliness and accuracy of budgetary documents and of the scoring of legislation. OMB currently asks users to comment
on the quality of the budget document. Means and Strategies: Offices in OMB will continue their well-defined roles in reviewing
and critiquing agency plans and budget requests, making resource allocation recommendations, producing the budget documents,
supporting the budget during the Congressional budget process, and working to sustain budget concepts. OMB will propose policy
options that meet overall budgetary objectives and shift resources away from programs which are less effective or important
in order to fund programs which support economic growth or advance Presidential priorities. OMB will make recommendations
to the President for budget requests to Congress based on critical review of agency planning and budget submissions. In this
context, for example, a significant effort is underway to improve agency planning for capital projects. External Factors:
While OMB has overall control over the development of the annual budget documents, and over legislative scoring, its ability
to develop the budget accurately and on time depends to a large extent on the accuracy and timeliness of agency submissions
of technical budget information and the timeliness of Congressional action on yearly appropriation bills. While OMB should
be expected to detect and correct serious errors in agency submissions, it would be impossible to prepare an accurate and
timely budget if agency submissions were significantly delayed or of poor quality.
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