Justification for Base Adjustments Interagency Crime and Drug Enforcement (Dollars in Thousands)

Redirection of Non-DOJ OCDETF Resources. In response to Congressional direction in the FY 2005 Conference Report, the President's FY 2006 Budget requests that funding of the Departments of Treasury and Homeland Security be included within their respective departments. This includes a transfer of 632 positions, 617 FTE and $87,652,000 for the following OCDETF member agencies: 336 positions, 329 FTE and $53,913,000 for the Internal Revenue Service; 296 positions, 288 FTE and $33,140,000 for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; and $599,000 for the U.S. Coast Guard.

2006 pay raise. This request provides for the proposed 2.3 percent pay raise to be effective in January of 2006 and is consistent with Administration policy included in the Pay Raise Guidance for 2005 budget submissions. This increase includes locality pay adjustments as well as the general pay raise. The amount requested, $6,974,000, represents the pay amounts for 3/4 of the fiscal year plus appropriate benefits($5,118,000 for pay and $ 1,856,000 for benefits).

Annualization of 2005 pay raise. This pay annualization represents first quarter amounts (October through December) of the 2004 pay increase of 3.5 percent included in the 2005 appropriation anticipated, effective January 2005. The amount requested $2,599,000, represents the pay amounts for 1/4 of the fiscal year plus appropriate benefits ($1,906,000 for pay and $693,000 for benefits).

Annualization of additional positions approved in 2004 and 2005. This provides for the annualization of 128 additional positions appropriated in 2004 and 324 additional positions funded in the 2005 Enacted Appropriation w/rescissions. Annualization of new positions extends to 3 years to provide for entry level funding in the first year with a 2-year progression to the journeyman level. For 2004 increases, this request includes an increase of $12,032,000 for full-year payroll costs and one-time items associated with these additional positions and a decrease of $6,865,000 for non-recurring items, for a net increase of $5,167,000. For 2005, this request includes a decrease of $5,690,000 for one-time items associated with the increased positions, and an increase of $18,898,000 for full-year costs associated with these additional positions, for a net increase of $13,208,000.

WCF Rate Increases, Components in the DC metropolitan area use and rely on the Department's Working Capital Fund (WCF) for support services including telecommunications services, computer services, finance services, as well as enterprise mail and web services. The WCF continues to invest in the infrastructure supporting the telecommunications services, computer services, enterprise mail and web services. Concurrently, several security initiatives are being implemented and additional resources are being directed to financial management in an effort to maintain a clean audit status. As a result, delivering these services to the remaining WCF customers is expected to increase customer costs between 10 and 20 percent. The WCF will absorb these costs but will need to recover the remaining costs from WCF customers through increased rates. Funding of $665,000 is required for this account.