§ 2452. Planning, programming, and budgeting process
(a)
Procedures required
The Administrator shall establish procedures to ensure that the planning, programming, budgeting, and financial activities of the Administration comport with sound financial and fiscal management principles. Those procedures shall, at a minimum, provide for the planning, programming, and budgeting of activities of the Administration using funds that are available for obligation for a limited number of years.
(b)
Annual plan for obligation of funds
(1)
Each year, the Administrator shall prepare a plan for the obligation of the amounts that, in the President’s budget submitted to Congress that year under section
1105
(a) of title
31, are proposed to be appropriated for the Administration for the fiscal year that begins in that year (in this section referred to as the “budget year”) and the two succeeding fiscal years.
(2)
For each program element and construction line item of the Administration, the plan shall provide the goal of the Administration for the obligation of those amounts for that element or item for each fiscal year of the plan, expressed as a percentage of the total amount proposed to be appropriated in that budget for that element or item.
(c)
Submission of plan and report
The Administrator shall submit to Congress each year, at or about the time that the President’s budget is submitted to Congress under section
1105
(a) of title
31, each of the following: