List of OMB Circulars and Bulletins
This is a partial list of circulars and bulletins issued by the Office of Management and Budget within the Executive Office of the President of the United States.
Circulars
- Circular A-4: Requires federal agencies to identify why regulation is needed, consider a reasonable number of alternative regulatory approaches, and for each alternative conduct a rigorous and objective benefit-cost analysis
- Circular A-11: Preparation, submission, and execution of the budget, revised and reissued periodically
- Circular A-16: Creation, maintenance and use of spatial data
- Circular A-21: Costs in support of sponsored research, development and training
- Circular A-119 relates to federal participation in the development and use of voluntary consensus standards and in conformity assessment activities. It was originally published on 20 October 1993, and was updated on 10 February 1998
- Circular A-123: Management responsibilities for internal controls in federal agencies
- Circular A-126: Improving the management and use of government aircraft
- Circular A-130: Managing information as a strategic resource
- Circular A-131: Value Engineering, issued 26 January 1988, revised 21 May 1993 and 26 December 2013. Contains guidance to support the sustained use of value engineering by federal departments and agencies
- Circular A-133: Audits of states, local government and non-profit organizations: see OMB A-133 Compliance Supplement
OMB Bulletins with multi-year effect
Most OMB Bulletins are intended to have relevance in only a single fiscal year. A few have longer lifetimes, including:- ,