Organizational Chart for the Budget Process

Mary Jane MillerDirector, Office of Budget Management

Indian Affairs

1st Monday in February

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Budget Formulation OverviewDOI/POB

OMB

Passback

DOI/POB

OMB

DOI

Appeals

Settlement

President’s Budget Release (Govt-wide)

DOI PB Release – Budget in Brief and Congressional Justifications

Congress

BUREAU

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Budget Formulation

Inside a Bureau

Region & Central Office RequestsRegional Directors and Budget Officers, Central Office Directors

Bureau Budget Office

Asst Secretary DecisionLarry Echo Hawk

Review & RecommendationsMary Jane Miller, Peter Probst, Gayle Shumaker, & Kevin Martin

Bureau Request

Senior Staff/Bureau DirectorsGeorge Skibine, Jerry Gidner, Bart Stevens, & political staff

The submission is due to DOI in mid- May

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Budget Formulation

Inside the Department

Bureau Request

Office of Budget

PMB Pam Haze & Rhea Suh

Secretary’s Office Ken Salazar

OMB (Due to OMB in early September.)

Review & RecommendationsDenise Flanagan, Daniel Wright, & Tiffany Taylor

Passback to Bureaus Departmental

Request

Review & RecommendationsAnn Kendrall, Robert Bullock, & Craig Crutchfield

PAD Sally Ericsson

DAD Rob Fairweather

Director’s Office Peter Orszag

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Congressional Review

Appropriations Committees

Budget Committee

Authorizing Committees

Appropriations: Directs the release of funds from Treasury. Gives specific direction for the use of funds. Establishes 302b allocations for subcommittees.

Budget: Provides top line budget assumptions to the Appropriations Committee and Revenue assumptions to the authorizing committees.

Authorizing: Gives broad permission to spend money on programs. Authorize mandatory funding – comes directly from Treasury, not through appropriation process.

Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Staff:

Majority – John Hart

Minority – Rhonda Harjo

House Committee on Natural Resources Staff:

Joshua Pitre & Teresa Bravo

Senate Staff:

Peter Kiefhaber & Brent Wiles

House Staff:

Julie Falkner & Darren Benjamin