31 U.S.C. § 1117 — Exemption

Page 153 TITLE 31—MONEY AND FINANCE § 1120 ginning on the effective date of this Act [see Effective Date of 2012 Amendment note set out under section 1204 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees] and ending at the end of the fiscal year in which such effective date occurs.’’ § 1117. Exemption The Director of the Office of Management and Budget may exempt from the requirements of sections 1115 and 1116 of this title and section 306 of title 5, any agency with annual outlays of $20,000,000 or less. (Added Pub. L. 103–62, § 4(b), Aug. 3, 1993, 107 Stat. 289.) Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries CONSTRUCTION No provision or amendment made by Pub. L. 103–62 to be construed as creating any right, privilege, benefit, or entitlement for any person who is not an officer or employee of the United States acting in such capacity, and no person not an officer or employee of the United States acting in such capacity to have standing to file any civil action in any court of the United States to enforce any provision or amendment made by Pub. L. 103–62, or to be construed as superseding any statutory requirement, see section 10 of Pub. L. 103–62, set out as a Construction of 1993 Amendment note under section 1101 of this title. [§§ 1118, 1119. Repealed. Pub. L. 118–190, § 6(a), Dec. 23, 2024, 138 Stat. 2656] Section 1118, added Pub. L. 103–62, § 6(a), Aug. 3, 1993, 107 Stat. 290, designated agencies as pilot projects in performance measurement for fiscal years 1994, 1995, and 1996. Section 1119, added Pub. L. 103–62, § 6(c), Aug. 3, 1993, 107 Stat. 291, designated agencies as pilot projects in performance budgeting for fiscal years 1998 and 1999. § 1120. Federal Government and agency priority goals (a) FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PRIORITY GOALS.— (1) The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall coordinate with agencies to develop priority goals to improve the perform- ance and management of the Federal Govern- ment. Such Federal Government priority goals shall include— (A) outcome-oriented goals covering a lim- ited number of crosscutting policy areas; and (B) goals for management improvements needed across the Federal Government, in- cluding— (i) financial management; (ii) human capital management; (iii) information technology manage- ment; (iv) procurement and acquisition man- agement; and (v) real property management; (2) The Federal Government priority goals shall be long-term in nature. Such goals shall— (A) be updated and revised not less fre- quently than during the first year of each Presidential term; (B) be made publicly available not less fre- quently than concurrently with the submis- sion of the budget of the United States Gov- ernment under section 1105(a) made during the first full fiscal year following any year during which a term of the President com- mences under section 101 of title 3; (C) include plans for the successful achievement of each goal within each single Presidential term; and (D) explicitly cite to any specific contents of the budget described in subparagraph (B) that support the achievement of each goal. As needed, the Director of the Office of Man- agement and Budget may make adjustments to the Federal Government priority goals to reflect significant changes in the environ- ment in which the Federal Government is operating, with appropriate notification of Congress. (3) When developing or making adjustments to Federal Government priority goals, the Di- rector of the Office of Management and Budget shall consult periodically with the Congress, including obtaining majority and minority views from— (A) the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representa- tives; (B) the Committees on the Budget of the Senate and the House of Representatives; (C) the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate; (D) the Committee on Oversight and Gov- ernment Reform of the House of Representa- tives; (E) the Committee on Finance of the Sen- ate; (F) the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives; and (G) any other committees as determined appropriate; (4) The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall consult with the appropriate committees of Congress at least once every 2 years. (5) The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall make information about the Federal Government priority goals available on a website described in section 1122 of this title. (6) The Federal Government performance plan required under section 1115(a) of this title shall be consistent with the Federal Govern- ment priority goals. (b) AGENCY PRIORITY GOALS.— (1) Every 2 years, the head of each agency listed in section 901(b) of this title, or as oth- erwise determined by the Director of the Of- fice of Management and Budget, shall identify agency priority goals from among the per- formance goals of the agency. The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall de- termine the total number of agency priority goals across the Government, and the number to be developed by each agency. The agency priority goals shall— (A) reflect the highest priorities of the agency, as determined by the head of the agency and informed by the Federal Govern- ment priority goals provided under sub- section (a) and the consultations with Con- gress and other interested parties required by section 306(d) of title 5;