OMB Sequestration Update Report to the President and Congress for Fiscal Year 2016, 51609 [2015-20982]

Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 164 / Tuesday, August 25, 2015 / Notices technological collection techniques or other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic submission of responses. Agency: DOL–EBSA. Title of Collection: Voluntary Fiduciary Correction Program. OMB Control Number: 1210–0118. Affected Public: Private Sector— businesses or other for profits. Total Estimated Number of Respondents: 1,800. Total Estimated Number of Responses: 50,700. Total Estimated Annual Time Burden: 8,100 hours. Total Estimated Annual Other Costs Burden: $329,200. Dated: August 19, 2015. Michel Smyth, Departmental Clearance Officer. 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_reports/sequestration. 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For fiscal year 2016, the report finds that if the current limits remain unchanged, under OMB’s estimates of actions to date by both the House of Representatives and Senate for the 12 annual appropriations bills would result in a sequestration of approximately $3 million and $1 million, respectively, in discretionary programs in the defense category. The report also finds that fiscal year 2016 actions by the House of Representatives for the non-defense category would result in a sequestration of nearly $1.8 billion while OMB’s estimate of actions by the Senate for the non-defense category are in compliance with the current spending limit. Finally, the report also contains OMB’s Preview Estimate of the Disaster Relief Funding Adjustment for FY 2016. asabaliauskas on DSK5VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:10 Aug 24, 2015 Jkt 235001 SUBMISSION AND AVAILABILITY OF REPORTS.—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. On the following day a notice of the report shall be printed in the Federal Register. ADDRESSES: [FR Doc. 2015–20966 Filed 8–24–15; 8:45 am] SUMMARY: Effective Date: August 20, 2015. 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 on August 20th of each year. With regard to this update report and to each of the three required sequestration reports, section 254(b) specifically states the following: DATES: Thomas Tobasko, 6202 New Executive Office Building, Washington, DC 20503, Email address: ttobasko@omb.eop.gov, 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. Shaun Donovan, Director. [FR Doc. 2015–20982 Filed 8–24–15; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE P MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION [MCC FR 15–01] Report on Countries That Are Candidates for Millennium Challenge Account Eligibility in Fiscal Year 2016 and Countries That Would Be Candidates But For Legal Prohibitions Millennium Challenge Corporation. AGENCY: ACTION: Notice. Section 608(a) of the Millennium Challenge Act of 2003 requires the Millennium Challenge Corporation to publish a report that identifies countries that are ‘‘candidate countries’’ for Millennium Challenge Account assistance during FY 2016. The report is set forth in full below. SUMMARY: PO 00000 Frm 00079 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 51609 Dated: August 18, 2015. Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong, VP/General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Millennium Challenge Corporation. Report on Countries That Are Candidates for Millennium Challenge Compact Eligibility for Fiscal Year 2016 and Countries That Would Be Candidates But for Legal Prohibitions Summary This report to Congress is provided in accordance with section 608(a) of the Millennium Challenge Act of 2003, as amended, 22 U.S.C. 7701, 7707(a) (the Act). The Act authorizes the provision of assistance for global development through the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) for countries that enter into a Millennium Challenge Compact with the United States to support policies and programs that advance the progress of such countries to achieve lasting economic growth and poverty reduction. The Act requires MCC to take a number of steps in selecting countries with which MCC will seek to enter into a compact, including determining the countries that will be eligible countries for fiscal year (FY) 2016 based on (a) a country’s demonstrated commitment to (i) just and democratic governance, (ii) economic freedom, and (iii) investments in its people; and (b) the opportunity to reduce poverty and generate economic growth in the country, and (c) the availability of funds to MCC. These steps include the submission of reports to the congressional committees specified in the Act and the publication of notices in the Federal Register that identify: The countries that are ‘‘candidate countries’’ for FY 2016 based on their per capita income levels and their eligibility to receive assistance under U.S. law and countries that would be candidate countries but for specified legal prohibitions on assistance (section 608(a) of the Act); The criteria and methodology that the MCC Board of Directors (Board) will use to measure and evaluate the relative policy performance of the ‘‘candidate countries’’ consistent with the requirements of subsections (a) and (b) of section 607 of the Act in order to determine ‘‘eligible countries’’ from among the ‘‘candidate countries’’ (section 608(b) of the Act); and The list of countries determined by the Board to be ‘‘eligible countries’’ for FY 2016, identification of such countries with which the Board will seek to enter into compacts, and a justification for such eligibility E:\FR\FM\25AUN1.SGM 25AUN1

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[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 164 (Tuesday, August 25, 2015)]
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[FR Doc No: 2015-20982]


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OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET


OMB Sequestration Update Report to the President and Congress for 
Fiscal Year 2016

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 2016.

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SUMMARY: OMB is issuing the OMB Sequestration Update Report to the 
President and Congress for Fiscal Year 2016 to report on the status of 
the discretionary caps and on the compliance of pending discretionary 
appropriations legislation with those caps. For fiscal year 2015, the 
report finds enacted appropriations to be within the spending limits. 
For fiscal year 2016, the report finds that if the current limits 
remain unchanged, under OMB's estimates of actions to date by both the 
House of Representatives and Senate for the 12 annual appropriations 
bills would result in a sequestration of approximately $3 million and 
$1 million, respectively, in discretionary programs in the defense 
category. The report also finds that fiscal year 2016 actions by the 
House of Representatives for the non-defense category would result in a 
sequestration of nearly $1.8 billion while OMB's estimate of actions by 
the Senate for the non-defense category are in compliance with the 
current spending limit. Finally, the report also contains OMB's Preview 
Estimate of the Disaster Relief Funding Adjustment for FY 2016.

DATES: Effective Date: August 20, 2015. 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 on 
August 20th of each year. With regard to this update report and to each 
of the three required sequestration reports, section 254(b) 
specifically states the following:

    SUBMISSION AND AVAILABILITY OF REPORTS.--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. On the following day a notice of the report shall be 
printed in the Federal Register.


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_reports/sequestration.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Thomas Tobasko, 6202 New Executive 
Office Building, Washington, DC 20503, Email address: 
ttobasko@omb.eop.gov, 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.

Shaun Donovan,
Director.
[FR Doc. 2015-20982 Filed 8-24-15; 8:45 am]
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