Workforce and Organizational Support

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Workforce and Organizational Support funds activities for the entire Bureau of Land Management that are not directly tied to a specific program, such as human resources management, equal employment opportunity, financial management, property and acquisition management, procurement and agreements, and information technology management. Bureau of Land Management 2027 Budget Justification Estimated Workforce and Organizational Support Costs - This exhibit fulfills the statutory requirements for Bureaus/Offices in Section 403 Division C of the "Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior and Environment Appropriations Act, 2026" (P.L. 119-74) as shown below. The exhibit summarizes program assessments used to support Government-wide, Departmental, or agency initiatives or general operations in annual budget justifications to Congress. SEC. 403. The amount and basis of estimated overhead charges, deductions, reserves, or holdbacks, including working capital fund charges, from programs, projects, activities and subactivities to support government-wide, departmental, agency, or bureau administrative justifications and subject to approval by the committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate. Changes to such estimates shall be presented to the Committees Each year the BLM prepares a Section 403 report to identify the amount and basis of estimated overhead The BLM funds the costs described in the Section 403 chart below through a combination of direct appropriations in this activity (Workforce and Organizational Support) and program assessments. For 2027, the BLM estimates these requirements will be approximately $319.3 million as shown in the table Shown as estimated amounts for fiscal years 2026 and 2027 Chapter III - Management of Lands and Page - III - 101 Bureau of Land Management 2027 Budget Justification Direct Appropriations - In 2027, the BLM will use the $130.3 million in direct appropriations for Program Assessments - In addition to direct appropriations, and in order to provide the level of funding needed to support operations, the BLM assesses its programs at both the national and State-office levels. These assessments provide about 59 percent of the BLM's total Section 403 costs. The estimated program assessments in 2027 are $188.9 million. These program assessments are conducted with the oversight and administrative management of the BLM Director, BLM's Executive Leadership Team, and the National Assessments pay for administrative support, Bureau-wide program activities, and information technology programs, many of which are mandated, and fixed costs assessed by the Department through the DOI Working Capital Fund. These initiatives benefit all programs or all employees and cannot be identified as benefiting any one program. In most cases, national program assessments are prorated to program areas based upon funding levels and include approximately $1.0 million for the Bureau's Priority Fund, which is used to assist field offices and programs with high-priority, unplanned, or unfunded needs that arise during the fiscal year. State (Regional) Assessments pay costs at the State level that are not identifiable to a specific program output. In this way, for example, programs within a State fund staff salaries for support services. In most cases, these costs are prorated to program areas based upon funding levels, historical costs, and FTE DOI Working Capital Fund - The DOI manages a Departmental Working Capital Fund (WCF) to provide services to the BLM and other DOI bureaus and offices. The BLM pays for these services with a combination of direct appropriations and program assessments. Program assessments are typically used for services that benefit the entire organization and support the DOI Strategic Plan, BLM focus areas, and DOI requirements. Many of these services are standard and recur on an annual basis, but some are fee- for-service based. The DOI and the BLM have reimbursable service agreements for these services.

Extracted from Bureau of Land Management, p. 53. Verbatim; nothing here is paraphrased.

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