From lpsmail@access.digex.net Thu Feb 20 14:28:20 1997 Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 14:20:12 -0500 (EST) From: Shipment To: grace york , Joe Paskoski Subject: ADNOTES V. 18, NO. 4 ADMINISTRATIVE NOTES Newsletter of the Federal Depository Library Program Vol. 18, no. 04 GP 3.16/3-2:18/04 February 28, 1997 MICHAEL F. DIMARIO PUBLIC PRINTER PREPARED STATEMENT BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON LEGISLATIVE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ON APPROPRIATIONS ESTIMATES FOR FISCAL YEAR 1998 February 11, 1997 GPO'S APPROPRIATED FUNDING Unlike the other congressional support agencies that come before this Subcommittee, only a small part of our annual budget is appropriated directly to GPO. Our budget instead is financed through a businesslike revolving fund, which is reimbursed by payments from customer agencies, sales to the public, and transfers from our appropriated funds. For FY 1996, the total operating expenses charged against our budget were $835..4 million. Appropriated funds from Congress provided $113.7 million of this amount, or 13.6 percent. They included $82.4 million for Congressional Printing and Binding and $31.1 million for the Salaries and Expenses of the Superintendent of Documents. All other GPO activities were financed through the revolving fund by customer agency payments and revenues from sales to the public. The Congressional Printing and Binding Appropriation nevertheless is critical to the maintenance and operation of our in-plant printing capacity, which is structured to serve Congress's printing needs. The appropriation covers the costs of congressional printing, such as the Congressional Record, bills, resolutions, amendments, reports, hearings, documents, and other products. Each year, a substantial volume of this work is requisitioned by Congress. In FY 1996, nearly 2 billion copy pages of congressional products were produced at an average cost of about 4 cents per page, inclusive of all prepress (database preparation) work, printing, binding, and delivery. The majority of the Superintendent of Documents Salaries and Expenses Appropriation is for the FDLP. While some of the funding for this program is for salaries and expenses, the majority is for printing and distributing publications (including publications in CD-ROM and online formats) to depository libraries. As long as Federal publications meet the requirements for depository distribution established by law, the copies must be distributed. In this sense, the volume of this work is controlled by the publishing activities of Federal agencies and Congress.