PUBLIC LAW 100-119—SEPT. 29, 1987
101 STAT. 763
tions are taken and the amounts and percentages by which such programs, projects, and activities must be reduced. "(2) REPORTS BY OMB.—On November 20 of fiscal year 1988 and on October 15 of subsequent fiscal years, the Director of OMB shall submit to the President and the Congress a report revising the report issued under subsection (a)(2)(B), adjusting the estimates, determinations, and specifications contained in the report and taking into account for the purposes of required determinations and comparisons the revised report issued by the Director of CBO under paragraph (1). This report shall contain all of the determinations and comparisons required in, and shall be based on the same economic and technical assumptions, employ the same methodologies, and utilize the same definition of the budget baseline and the same criteria and guidelines as, the report issued under subsection (a)(2)(B), and shall provide for the determination of reductions in the manner specified in subsection (a)(3). In addition, this report shall specify by programs, projects, and activities for defense accounts, the budget baseline from which reductions are taken and the amounts by which such programs, projects, and activities must be reduced. '(d) SEQUESTRATION OF DEFENSE PROGRAMS.— "(1) DETERMINATION OF UNIFORM PERCENTAGE.—The
total amount of reductions in outlays under defense programs required for a fiscal year under subsection (a)(3)(B) shall be calculated as a percentage of the total amount of outlays for the fiscal year estimated to result from new budget authority and unobligated balances for defense programs.
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"(2) SEQUESTRATION OF N E W BUDGET AUTHORITY AND UNOBLIGATED BALANCES.—
"(A) Sequestration to achieve the required reduction in outlays under defense programs shall be made by reducing new budget authority and unobligated balances (if any) in each program, project, or activity under accounts within defense programs by the percentage determined under paragraph (1), computed on the basis of the combined outlay rate for new budget authority and unobligated balances for such program, project, or activity determined under subparagraph (B). "(B) If the outlay rate for unobligated balances is not available for any program, project, or activity, the outlay rate used shall be the outlay rate for new budget authority. "(3) FLEXIBILITY ACCOUNTS.—
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"(A) Notwithstanding paragraphs (1) and (2), with respect to a fiscal year the President may, with respect to any military personnel account— "(i) exempt any program, project, or activity within such account from the order; "(ii) provide for a lower uniform percentage to be applied to reduce any program, project, or activity within such account than would otherwise apply; or "(iii) take actions described in both clauses (i) and (ii). "(B) If the President uses the authority under subparagraph (A), the total amount by which outlays are not reduced for such fiscal year in military personnel accounts by reason of the use of such authority shall be determined.
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