An apportionment is an
Office of Management and Budget
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is the largest office within the Executive Office of the President of the United States (EOP). OMB's most prominent function is to produce the president's budget, but it also examines agency programs, pol ...
-approved plan to use budgetary resources (; ).
It typically limits the obligations the federal government may incur for specified time periods, programs, activities, projects, objects, etc.
[ An apportionment is legally binding, and obligations and
expenditures (disbursements) that exceed an apportionment are a violation of, and are subject to reporting
under, the Antideficiency Act.][.
The desired goal of the apportionment process is the promotion of economy and efficiency in the use of appropriations.]
References
Public administration
United States federal law
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