Administrative Conference of the U.S. federal obligations

Administrative-law recommendations on a $158,920 ledger

ACUS studies federal administrative procedure and issues recommendations to agencies and Congress. None of those recommendation counts are in this packet. $158,920 is what the Conference obligated on federal awards through FY2026, carried on 2 awards. Dividing $158,920 by 2 yields $79,460 per award.

A two-row book is not ACUS’s full operating story. Research that staff perform in-house, member time, and costs paid outside USAspending never appear as these 2 instruments. The $158,920 is complete as an awarding-agency total for CGAC 302 in this extract; it is incomplete as a budget encyclopedia.

What two awards omit

The Federal Register, OIRA, and individual agency rulemaking budgets sit under other CGACs. Mixing them with $158,920 would treat ACUS as if it ran the administrative state. It does not. This page stays on awarding agency 302.

Conference staff salaries generally never appear as USAspending awards. Outlays on the 2 instruments are unpublished. Treat 158920 dollars as commitments, not as cash already paid.

FY2026 cutoff on a two-row book

Fiscal year 2026 is the latest year on the packet. The $158,920 is cumulative through that horizon, not a single-year appropriation. With only 2 awards, one closeout can erase a large share of the recorded total, and one new instrument can double it. Refresh the live table rather than treating this prose as frozen.

This page does not name the 2 awards. The packet has no award IDs. Open the agency table for the live rows.

CGAC 302

Administrative Conference of the U.S. rows use awarding-agency code 302. SpendingVault’s /agencies/302/ path is keyed to it. Code 302 is an identifier, not a Federal Register citation. Other administrative-procedure bodies keep their own CGACs.

State tables when the count is two

The state table for agency 302 attributes 2 awards using USAspending location fields. At most a couple of jurisdictions will appear. That geography is the location tag on two instruments, not a map of federal rulemaking.

Open the ACUS agency page for the live $158,920 and 2-award filters. Use the all-agencies directory to find CGAC 302. Dollar rank among independents is not a ranking of administrative-law influence.

Recommendations versus two micro awards

ACUS recommendations on administrative procedure are the Conference’s public product. Recommendation counts are not the 2 USAspending awards. A busy recommendation year can leave $158,920 unchanged. One new instrument can double the recorded total because the denominator is two.

The Federal Register, OIRA, and individual agency rulemaking budgets sit under other CGACs. Mixing them with 158920 dollars would treat ACUS as if it ran the administrative state. This page stays on awarding agency 302. Staff salaries generally never appear among the 2 rows, so the table understates full operating cost.

With 2 awards, the state table names at most a couple of jurisdictions. That geography is the location tag on two instruments, not a map of federal rulemaking. FY2026 is the cutoff. Refresh the ACUS agency page after warehouse updates. Outlays are unpublished. The packet has no award IDs. Use the live $158,920 filters rather than treating this prose as frozen.

Recommendation texts and public meetings are ACUS products. They are not the 2 awards. A busy recommendation year can leave $158,920 unchanged. One new instrument can double 158920 dollars because the denominator is two. FY2026 is the cutoff. Use the ACUS agency page for live CGAC 302 tables. Rulemaking budgets at other agencies remain other CGACs. Staff time that never became an award stays off this table. Outlays are unpublished. The packet has no award IDs.

Public meetings of the Conference Assembly are ACUS process. They are not the 2 awards. A meeting-heavy year can leave $158,920 unchanged. One research contract can double 158920 dollars. FY2026 is the cutoff. Use the ACUS agency page for live CGAC 302 tables. OIRA and department rulemaking budgets remain other CGACs. Staff research that never became an award stays off this table. Outlays are unpublished.

Conference staff salaries generally never appear among the 2 awards, so $158,920 understates full operating cost. Refresh the ACUS agency page after warehouse updates; with only two instruments, one closeout can erase a large share of the recorded total.

Questions

How much has ACUS obligated on USAspending?

The Administrative Conference of the U.S. shows $158,920 in obligations through FY2026 across 2 awards. Awarding-agency CGAC 302 is the filter. The total is not a count of ACUS recommendations and not the federal rulemaking budget. USAspending.gov records this as awarding-agency obligations through FY2026, not cash outlays. The live table for CGAC 302 is the source for the current 2-award book.

What is the average ACUS award?

Dividing 158920 dollars by 2 awards yields $79,460. The packet has no median and no award IDs. A two-row book can change sharply if either instrument is modified. That figure uses only the packet totals. The extract has no median and no contract-versus-assistance split. FY2026 is the warehouse cutoff, not a single-year appropriation.

What is agency code 302?

302 is the USAspending awarding-agency CGAC identifier for the Administrative Conference of the U.S. SpendingVault uses it in /agencies/302/. OMB, OIRA, and individual departments use different codes. SpendingVault URLs under the agency path filter to that CGAC identifier. It is an accounting tag, not a quality score. Totals on this page are obligations through FY2026.

Is $158,920 the ACUS budget?

No. It is the USAspending awarding-agency obligation stock through FY2026. Staff pay and other non-award costs generally never appear. Outlays on the 2 awards are unpublished in the packet. Outlays are unpublished in this packet, so this page does not estimate cash already paid. Refresh the agency page after USAspending updates rather than treating the current stock as frozen.