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Spending Authority From Offsetting Collections Amount Total_CPE

Published by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency | Metadata Last Checked: July 13, 2025 | Last Modified: 2018-07-31
The definition for this element appears in Section 20 of OMB Circular A-11 issued June 2015; a brief summary from A-11 appears below. Spending authority from offsetting collections is a type of budget authority that permits obligations and outlays to be financed by offsetting collections. Offsetting collections mean payments to the Government that, by law, are credited directly to expenditure accounts and deducted from gross budget authority and outlays of the expenditure account, rather than added to receipts. Usually, they are authorized to be spent for the purposes of the account without further action by Congress. They usually result from business-like transactions with the public, including payments from the public in exchange for goods and services, reimbursements for damages, and gifts or donations of money to the Government and from intragovernmental transactions with other Government accounts. The authority to spend offsetting collections is a form of budget authority.

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