The Office of Management and Budget was again ordered to publicly disclose information on agency apportionments required by federal law.
Where an agency’s funds are conditioned on an OMB-approved spending plan in a legally-binding footnote, “OMB has incorporated-by-reference the terms of the spend plan into the apportionment” and therefore must be disclosed, the US District Court for the District of Columbia said Wednesday. Judge Emmet G. Sullivan’s order follows his earlier ruling requiring OMB to restore a public website disclosing apportionment data, which also mostly granted summary judgment to two nonprofits that sued over the site’s removal last March. ...