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PUBLIC LAW 93-344-JULY 12, 1974

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''(1) furnish to such committee or joint committee, the Comptroller General, or the Director of the Congressional Budget Office information as to the location and nature of available fiscal, budgetary, and program-related data and information; •'(2) to the extent practicable, prepare summary tables of such data and information and any related information deemed necessary by such committee or joint committee, the Comptroller General, or the Director of the Congressional Budget Office; and "(3) furnish to such committee or joint committee, the Comptroller General, or the Director of the Congressional Budget Office any program evaluations conducted or commissioned by any executive agency. " (b) The Comptroller General, in cooperation with the Director of the Congressional Budget Office, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, shall— •'(1) develop, establish, and maintain an up-to-date inventory and directory of sources and information systems containing fiscal, budgetary, and program-related data and information and a brief description of their content; " (2) provide, upon request, assistance to committees, joint committees, and Members of Congress in securing Federal fiscal, budgetary, and program-related data and information from the sources identified in such inventory and directory; and "(3) furnish, upon request, assistance to committees and joint committees of Congress and, to the extent practicable, to Members of Congress in appraising and analyzing fiscal, budgetary, and program-related data and information secured from the sources identified in such inventory and directory, ''(c) The Comptroller General and the Director of the Congres- central data sional Budget Office shall, to the extent they deem necessary, develop, mem! ^^^ °^' establish, and maintain a central file or files of the data and information required to carry out the purposes of this title. Such a file or files shall be established to meet recurring requirements of the Congress for fiscal, budgetary, and program-related data and information and shall include, but not be limited to, data and information pertaining to budget requests, congressional authorizations to obligate and spend, apportionment and reserve actions, and obligations and expenditures. Such file or files and their indexes shall be maintained in such a manner as to facilitate their use by the committees of both Houses, joint committees, and other congressional agencies through modern data processing and communications techniques. " (d) The Director of the Office of Management and Budget, in sti"e°and'iocai° cooperation with the Director of the Congressional Budget Office, governments. the Comptroller General, and appropriate representatives of State and local governments, shall provide, to the extent practicable. State and local governments such fiscal, budgetary, and program-related data and information as may be necessary for the accurate and timely determination by these governments of the impact of Federal assistance upon their budgets." (b) The table of contents of the Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 is amended by striking out— " TITLE II — F I S C A L CONTROLS '•PAKT 1—BUDGETARY AND F I S C A L INFORMATION AND D A T A

"Sec. 201. Budgetary and fiscal d a t a processing system. "Sec. 202. Budget standard classifications. "Sec. 203. Availability to Congress of budgetary, fiscal, and related d a t a. "

and inserting in lieu thereof—

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