[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 82 (Tuesday, June 15, 2004)] [House] [Page H4146] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] REVISIONS TO THE 302(a) ALLOCATIONS AND BUDGETARY AGGREGATES ESTABLISHED BY THE CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS ON THE BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEARS 2004 AND 2005 The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under a previous order of the House, the gentleman from Iowa (Mr. Nussle) is recognized for 5 minutes. Mr. NUSSLE. Mr. Speaker, I submit for printing in the Congressional Record revisions to the 302(a) allocations to the Appropriations Committee and budgetary aggregates established by the budget resolution. These revisions increase the amount of new budget authority available to the House Appropriations Committee to reflect both technical changes and additional funds for wildland fire suppression provided by the Interior appropriations bill reported to the House today. My authority to make these adjustments is derived from sections 312 and 313 of S. Con. Res. 95, as made applicable to the House of Representatives by H. Res. 649 (108th Congress). Section 313 of the conference report to accompany S. Con. Res. 95 provides for an increase in budget authority and outlays to the House Appropriations Committee upon reporting of the first bill by that committee. This increase, which totals $7,158,000,000 in new budget authority and $14,516,000,000 in outlays, is necessary both to increase the discretionary levels from the discretionary limits that are binding in the Senate (by virtue of Section 504 of the fiscal year budget resolution) to the levels envisioned by the conference agreement, and to achieve comparability in the budgetary treatment of Project Bioshield between the President's budget request and the conference agreement. I am hereby increasing the allocation and budgetary aggregates by these amounts. Section 312 of S. Con. Res. 95 provides for a supplemental increase in budget authority and outlays to the House Appropriations Committee if additional funds are provided in 2004 or 2005 for wildland fire suppression. The adjustment is available for fiscal year 2005 if regular appropriations provided by the reported bill are at least 10- year average of obligations for such activities. Because this requirement has been met, I am increasing the 302(a) allocation of budget authority to the Appropriations Committee by $500,000,000 in both 2004 and 2005 to reflect the additional amounts provided in the Interior appropriations bill. Outlays flowing from this budget authority total $330,000,000 in 2004 and $420,000,000 in 2005. After the adjustments specified in these two sections, the 302(a) allocation to the House Committee on Appropriations becomes $786,065,000,000 in budget authority and $861,672,000,000 in outlays for fiscal year 2004 and $821,919,000,000 in budget authority and $905,748,000,000 in outlays for fiscal year 2005. The corresponding budgetary aggregates become $1,881,055,000,000 in budget authority and $1,903,832,000,000 in outlays for fiscal year 2004 and $2,012,726,000,000 in budget authority and $2,010,964,000,000 in outlays for fiscal year 2005. ____________________