51 U.S.C. § 30103 — Budgets

(a) Categories. — The President’s proposed Administration^* budget for each fiscal year must include documents showing: (1) by program, budgets for (A) space operations, including the International Space Station and shuttle; (B) exploration systems; (C) aeronautics; (D) space science; (E) Earth science; (F) microgravity science; (G) education; (H) safety oversight; and (I) public relations; (2) technology-transfer programs; (3) each element of the Integrated Enterprise Management Program; (4) the Independent Technical Authority, both total and by center; (5) the total and administrative budgets for the section 20144 prize program; and (6) comparable figures for at least the previous 2 fiscal years for every proposed item. (b) Information on request. — On request from the House Science and Technology Committee or Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, the Administration must provide: (1) corporate and center general-and-administrative and service-pool costs, including (A) total funds allocated for each fiscal year covered by the President’s request, (B) amounts for each center, headquarters, and directorate, and (C) the major activities in each cost category; and (2) by appropriation account, unobligated and unexpended funds: (A) carried into the budget-presenting year from the prior year; (B) estimated to remain at the end of the budget-presenting year and proposed to be carried into the requested year; and (C) estimated to remain at the end of the requested year. (c) Annual budget justification. — At minimum, the Administration must provide: (1) actual, current, proposed, and next-five-fiscal-year estimated funding by directorate, theme, program, project, and activity within each account; (2) proposed programmatic and nonprogrammatic facility construction; (3) headquarters budgets by office and division, including the same funding figures, travel budgets for actual/current/proposed levels, and civil-service full-time-equivalent assignments, including Senior Executive Service, noncareer, detailee, and contract staff; (4) within 14 days after submitting the budget, a volume for Appropriations Committees covering each center, center-managed facility, and federally funded research and development center, with the same five-year funding and construction information, civil-service positions by center and year, and uncovered-capacity positions by location and year; (5) proposed object-class budgets for each directorate, theme, and program; and (6) enough explanation for each program, project, and activity and for deviations from adopted baselines in materials provided to the Committees. (d) Lease receipts. — Each annual budget request must estimate yearly gross receipts and collections and proposed uses of all money collected under section 20145.