OMB Circular A-11 ("Preparation, Submission, and Execution of the Budget") is a United States

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that addresses budget preparation for federal agencies, and is "the primary document that instructs agencies how to prepare and submit budget requests for OMB review and approval". The circular is revised and reissued periodically, with the version current as of 2016 being divided into seven parts. Some policy changes have been enacted through historical versions of this document. The

Reagan Administration Ronald Reagan's tenure as the 40th president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 1981, and ended on January 20, 1989. Reagan, a Republican from California, took office following a landslide victory over ...

abandoned

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through the version of OMB Circular A-11 promulgated in 1981.W. Bartley Hildreth, Gerald J. Miller, Jack Rabin, eds., ''Handbook of Public Administration, Second Edition'' (1997), p. 148

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Text of OMB Circular A-11

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