# Cost Collection

**Agency:** Commerce  
**Account:** Working Capital Fund  
**Source document:** Census Bureau · p. 133  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/commerce/cost-collection  

> **Trust:** parsed from the agency Congressional Justification. Approximate, **not summable**, verify at the cited page.


## Commerce discretionary budget authority (OMB PBDB — authoritative)

FY2027 $7.00B, FY2026 $11.90B. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## What this funds

Finally, the WCF contains a Cost Collection account that aggregates funding for non-severable projects that are funded from more than one source where employees working on these projects cannot reasonably divide their salaries among multiple sources of funding.


**Where it sits:** Civilian / Non-Defense › Commerce › Census Bureau › Working Capital Fund › Cost Collection


*HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. government. Civilian line dollars are parsed from agency Congressional Justifications and are approximate.*