Office of the Administrator

Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Justification

HAEB-BUD-FY2027 SUBMITTED. THE PRIOR YEAR JUSTIFICATION REMAINS IN EFFECT. CAP Rev. 12.4

Document type

Budget justification

Issuing office

Office of the Administrator

Closure status

Submitted. The prior year justification remains in effect.

Public impact

Level 3, Administrative

Published

August 3, 2026

Request summary

The increase reflects one additional completed year.

Basis for the request

The Bureau’s workload is the past.

The past increased by one year during the period covered by this request. It is expected to increase by one year in each subsequent period. The Bureau’s appropriation has not increased at that rate since 1974.

Each completed year adds approximately 31,536,000 seconds of approved sequence to the volume the Bureau maintains. Approved sequence, once maintained, is maintained permanently. No year has been retired.

The Bureau does not request funding for years that have not completed. Those years are the responsibility of the Office of Future Non-Jurisdiction, which requests funding for them.

Program requests

Dollars in thousands.

Records That Should Not Exist is requested at the fiscal year 2026 level. The office’s holdings cannot be counted.

The Office of Inspector General is requested at the fiscal year 2026 level.

Office of Future Non-Jurisdiction

The office is funded for 214 employees.

The office declined jurisdiction over 100 percent of matters referred to it during the reporting period, which is its performance target.

The office’s request is classified as anticipatory, not predictive. Anticipatory amounts describe conditions the Bureau expects to decline to address. Predictive amounts would describe conditions the Bureau expects to occur, and the Bureau does not make statements about events that have not completed.

The office has submitted a five year plan covering matters it cannot address. The plan is complete through 2031.

Retrospective appropriations administration

The program administers funds that will have been appropriated.

Prior year obligations are reported as anticipatory.

Foundational reconciliation

This line appears in every Bureau justification available to the Office of the Administrator, including the justifications that predate the Bureau’s claimed founding.

The line is retained.

Performance basis

The Bureau completed 14 of 14 stakeholder meetings, issued 312 pages of guidance, and reviewed 318 incidents during the reporting period. Open incidents at the close of the period were 0.

100 percent of corrective actions completed during the period were certified as having no historical effect. The Office of Inspector General has reported a different figure for the same population, using a term that has not been defined.

The Bureau requests $412,000 within the retrospective compliance line to document the definition.

Efficiencies achieved

1. Open incidents were reduced to 0 during the reporting period at no additional cost.
2. Reporting on interviews held was discontinued, reducing reporting burden by one measure.
3. One six page form was replaced by three linked four page forms. The Bureau reports a 200 percent increase in forms available to the public and a 33 percent reduction in pages per form.
4. Verification of prior events was consolidated into a single annual confirmation covering all completed events, replacing per event confirmation.

Consequences if the request is not funded

1. The Bureau would maintain 2,027 years of approved sequence with resources appropriated for 2,026 years.
2. Verification intervals would lengthen. Completed events would remain completed. The Bureau could not confirm it on the current schedule.
3. The Bureau would be required to prioritize among completed events. Prioritization among completed events is not authorized.

Certification

Submitted by the Office of the Administrator under Directive 12.4.

Constance Vale Acting Administrator

The past remains available.