Description
The definition for this element appears in Section 20 of OMB Circular A-11 issued June 2015; a brief summary from A-11 appears below.
Contract authority is a type of budget authority that permits you to incur obligations in advance of an appropriation, offsetting collections, or receipts to make outlays to liquidate the obligations. Typically, the Congress provides contract authority in an authorizing statute to allow you to incur obligations in anticipation of the collection of receipts or offsetting collections that will be used to liquidate the obligations.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| usaspending.gov | Unknown | USAspending.gov is the official source for spending data for the U.S. Government. Its mission is to show the American public what the federal government spends every year and how it spends the money. You can follow the money from the Congressional appropriations to the federal agencies and down to local communities and businesses | Open resource |
| usaspending.gov | Unknown | USAspending.gov is the official source for spending data for the U.S. Government. Its missiex.htmlon is to show the American public what the federal government spends every year and how it spends the money. You can follow the money from the Congressional appropriations to the federal agencies and down to local communities and businesses | Open resource |
| Raw Quarterly DATA Act Files - Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) / File A, Appropriations | CSV | EPA File A submission to comply with the DATA Act. | Open resource |