5 U.S.C. § 2953
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- (a)Each report, recommendation, or other communication, of an official nature, of an Executive agency which—shall contain a statement, concerning the Executive agency, for each of the first 5 fiscal years during which each additional or expanded function, activity, or authority so proposed or recommended is to be in effect, setting forth the following information—
- (1)relates to pending or proposed legislation which, if enacted, will entail an estimated annual expenditure of appropriated funds in excess of $1,000,000;
- (2)is submitted or transmitted to Congress or a committee thereof in compliance with law or on the initiative of the appropriate authority of the executive branch; and
- (3)officially proposes or recommends the creation or expansion, either by action of Congress or by administrative action, of a function, activity, or authority of the Executive agency to be in addition to those functions, activities, and authorities thereof existing when the report, recommendation, or other communication is so submitted or transmitted;
- (A)the estimated maximum additional—which are attributable to the function, activity, or authority and which will be required to be effected by the Executive agency in connection with the performance thereof; and
- (B)such other statement, discussion, explanation, or other information as is considered advisable by the appropriate authority of the executive branch or that is required by Congress or a committee thereof.
- (b)Subsection (a) of this section does not apply to—