OMB Forward Funds-Matching Legislation to Congress

4. Allow agencies to match funds. (3)

The Director of OMB should forward legislation to Congress that would
allow agencies to match funds with each other through the WCFs for
cross-agency projects or with other partners such as state and local
governments and private industry to share risks and leverage
participation at agency and cross-agency levels. For fiscal year 1994,
OMB should test this idea in a pilot program at one major agency by
including new legislative language. The pilot program should test the
feasibility of using the approach based on the approved scope developed
in cooperation with OMB and Congress to control the investment pattern
as an alternative to using prior coordination and approval by OMB and
Congress on each project.