PART 1: APPORTIONMENT
An expired appropriation may be used to: (select two answers) - ANSWER--Make new
obligations
-*Make payments to liquidate obligations previously made against it*
-*Adjust obligations previously made against it*
-Pay bills related to a cancelled appropriation of the same type, up to 1% of the expired
appropriation amount or the unliquidated balance of the cancelled appropriation,
whichever is less
The Department of Defense moved funds from the Overseas Contingency Transfer
Fund to the Army`s Military Personnel appropriation to cover extra costs associated with
deploying troops unexpectedly to Afghanistan. This action required: - ANSWER--Below-
threshold reprogramming
-*(WRONG) Congressional notification reprogramming*
-Congressional prior approval reprogramming
-Internal reprogramming
True or False. There are only two hard and fast criteria that the business activity must
meet in order to be included in a Working Capital Fund. They are 1) produce identifiable
outputs, and 2) these outputs can only serve DoD agency requirements. - ANSWER--
True
-*False*
$150,000 was committed in February for a research and development contract to be
awarded in May. Unfortunately, the lowest bid received by the Procuring Contracting
Officer was $200,000. According to the rules governing commitments: (select one) -
ANSWER--The $200,000 obligation for the contract award can be recorded without
adjusting the original commitment amount
-The official who authorized the original commitment need not take any action
-A new commitment for an additional $200,000 should be recorded
-*The original commitment amount must be increased to $200,000 before the obligation
can be recorded*
Which of the following is true concerning below-threshold reprogrammings in Military
Construction appropriations? - ANSWER--The amount added to an existing Line Item
must be less than $20 million