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Answers to Questions for the Record Following a Hearing on the 2014 Long-Term Budget Outlook Conducted by the House Committee on the Budget 1 (September 30, 2014)

handle is hein.congrec/cbo1886 and id is 1 raw text is: Answers to Questions for the Record Following a Hearing on The 2014 Long-Term Budget Outlook Conducted by the House Committee on the Budget On July 16, 2014, the House Committee on the Budget convened a hearing at which Douglas W Elmendorf, Director of the Congressional Budget Office, testified about CBO's report The 2014 Long-Term Budget Outlook (www. cbo.gov/publication/45471). Following that hearing, some Members of the Committee submitted questions for the record. This document provides CBO's answers. Chairman Ryan Question: If the Wildfire Disaster Funding Act (S. 1875, H.R. 3992) were enacted now and any amount of additional new budget authority (as defined by the Act) was appropriated, would the maximum amount Congress is able to appropriate in fiscal year 2015 exceed the maximum amount Congress is allowed to appropriate in fiscal year 2015 under current law? Answer: Yes. Those bills define additional new budget authority as the amount of funding provided in an appropriation act for wildfire suppression operations that exceeds 70 percent of the average costs for wildfire suppression operations over the previous 10 years. If the Congress appropriated such additional new budget authority for fire suppression in 2015, the maximum amount that the Congress would be allowed to appropriate in that year would increase, relative to current law, by an amount equal to that new budget authority (up to a specified limit). The Budget Control Act of 2011 established caps on the amount of new budget authority the Congress can provide in annual appropriation bills through 2021. Under that act, the caps can be increased to accommodate additional funding for overseas contingency opera- tions, disaster relief, program integrity initiatives, or anything designated as an emergency requirement. Over the 2015-2021 period, S. 1875 and H.R. 3992 would allow for an additional cap increase in any given year equal to the difference between the amount appropriated for wildfire suppression in that year and 70 percent of the average annual amount obligated for wildfire suppression over the previous decade. (For 2015, the applicable 10-year average is $1.4 billion.) However, that cap increase (the additional new budget authority) for wildfire suppression could not exceed $2.689 billion in any year.

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