Chapter 20, Subchapter I, Section 906, Subsection (h) · 2 U.S.C. Chapter 20 — EMERGENCY POWERS TO ELIMINATE BUDGET DEFICITS

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(h)

(1)Notwithstanding any other provision of this title,1 administrative expenses incurred by the departments and agencies, including independent agencies, of the Federal Government in connection with any program, project, activity, or account shall be subject to reduction pursuant to an order issued under section 904 of this title, without regard to any exemption, exception, limitation, or special rule which is otherwise applicable with respect to such program, project, activity, or account under this subchapter.

(2)Notwithstanding any other provision of law, administrative expenses of any program, project, activity, or account which is self-supporting and does not receive appropriations shall be subject to reduction under a sequester order, unless specifically exempted in this subchapter.

(3)Payments made by the Federal Government to reimburse or match administrative costs incurred by a State or political subdivision under or in connection with any program, project, activity, or account shall not be considered administrative expenses of the Federal Government for purposes of this section, and shall be subject to reduction or sequestration under this subchapter to the extent (and only to the extent) that other payments made by the Federal Government under or in connection with that program, project, activity, or account are subject to such reduction or sequestration; except that Federal payments made to a State as reimbursement of administrative costs incurred by such State under or in connection with the unemployment compensation programs specified in subsection (h)(1) 1 shall be subject to reduction or sequestration under this subchapter notwithstanding the exemption otherwise granted to such programs under that subsection.

(4)Notwithstanding any other provision of law, this subsection shall not apply with respect to the following:

(A)Comptroller of the Currency.

(B)Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

(C)National Credit Union Administration.

(D)National Credit Union Administration, central liquidity facility.

(E)Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board.

(F)Farm Credit Administration.

(G)Cost of War Toxic Exposures Fund.

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account
means an item for which appropriations are made in any appropriation Act and, for items not provided for in appropriation Acts, such term means an item for which there is a designated budget account identification code number in the President’s budget.
additional new budget authority
means the amount provided for a fiscal year in an appropriation Act that is in excess of the average costs for wildfire suppression operations as reported in the budget of the President submitted under section 1105(a) of title 31 for fiscal year 2015 and are specified to pay for the costs of wildfire suppression operations in an amount not to exceed the amount specified for that fiscal year in clause (i).
asset sale
means the sale to the public of any asset (except for those assets covered by title V of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 [2 U.S.C. 661 et seq.]), whether physical or financial, owned in whole or in part by the United States.
baseline
means the projection (described in section 907 of this title) of current-year levels of new budget authority, outlays, receipts, and the surplus or deficit into the budget year and the outyears.
breach
means, for any fiscal year, the amount (if any) by which new budget authority or outlays for that year (within a category of discretionary appropriations) is above that category’s discretionary spending limit for new budget authority or outlays for that year, as the case may be.
budget year
means, with respect to a session of Congress, the fiscal year of the Government that starts on October 1 of the calendar year in which that session begins.
budgetary resources
means new budget authority, unobligated balances, direct spending authority, and obligation limitations.
category
means the subsets of discretionary appropriations in section 901(c) of this title.
CBO
means the Director of the Congressional Budget Office.
continuing disability reviews
means continuing disability reviews under sections 221(i) and 1614(a)(4) of the Social Security Act [42 U.S.C. 421(i), 1382c(a)(4)], including work-related continuing disability reviews to determine whether earnings derived from services demonstrate an individual’s ability to engage in substantial gainful activity;
current
means, with respect to OMB estimates included with a budget submission under section 1105(a) of title 31, the estimates consistent with the economic and technical assumptions underlying that budget and with respect to estimates made after that budget submission that are not included with it, estimates consistent with the economic and technical assumptions underlying the most recently submitted President’s budget.
current year
means, with respect to a budget year, the fiscal year that immediately precedes that budget year.
day
shall mean any calendar day on which the Senate is in session.
deposit insurance
refers to the expenses of the Federal deposit insurance agencies, and other Federal agencies supervising insured depository institutions, resulting from full funding of, and continuation of, the deposit insurance guarantee commitment in effect under current estimates.
direct spending
means—
disaster relief
means activities carried out pursuant to a determination under section 5122(2) of title 42.
discretionary appropriations
means budgetary resources (except to fund direct-spending programs) provided in appropriation Acts.
discretionary category
includes all discretionary appropriations.
discretionary spending limit
means— as adjusted in strict conformance with subsection (b).
elements of military pay
means—
emergency
means a situation that—
nonsecurity category
means all discretionary appropriations not included in the security category defined in subparagraph (B).
OMB
means the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
outyear
means a fiscal year one or more years after the budget year.
redetermination
means redetermination of eligibility under sections 1611(c)(1) and 1614(a)(3)(H) of the Social Security Act [42 U.S.C. 1382(c)(1), 1382c(a)(3)(H)];
resolution
means a simple, joint, or concurrent resolution.
revised nonsecurity category
means discretionary appropriations other than in budget function 050.
revised security category
means discretionary appropriations in budget function 050.
security category
includes discretionary appropriations associated with agency budgets for the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the National Nuclear Security Administration, the intelligence community management account (95–0401–0–1–054), and all budget accounts in budget function 150 (international affairs).
unanticipated
means that the underlying situation is—
wildfire suppression operations
means the emergency and unpredictable aspects of wildland firefighting, including—