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development. Language in both H.R. 4754 and the Appropriations Committee's
report (H.Rept. 108-576) would have precluded the EEOC from undertaking any
workforce repositioning, restructuring, or reorganization until the Committee had
received advance notification of its proposals; and only after submitting a spending
plan to the Committee would about $1 million have become available to the agency
for use in connection with the National Contact Center. The House Appropriations
Committee further required the agency to submit quarterly status reports on projected
and actual spending levels, by function, for repositioning and to continue submitting
quarterly reports on projected and actual agency spending and staffing levels. The
conference agreement (H.Rept. 108-792) adopts this language, absent the allocation
of a specific sum for the National Contact Center. In addition, H.R. 4818 states that
the EEOC shall not have fewer positions in the field in FY2005 than in FY2004.
The Administration included $2 million in its proposed $26 million increase to
carry out a $500,000 review of states' strategies for removing employment barriers
confronting people with disabilities and to undertake other activities related to the
President's New Freedom Initiative, which is intended to fully integrate individuals
with disabilities into the country's economic and social life; to increase contract
funds for the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Program due to anticipated
growth in the number of employers agreeing to mediation ($820,000); to provide
more money for the litigation program ($430,000); and to improve the outreach,
education, and technical assistance programs for small and large employers and their
employees ($204,000). In addition to the House Appropriations Committee
recommending that $2 million be devoted to ADR, litigation, and outreach activities
($1.45 million) and to the New Freedom Initiative ($500,000), H.R. 4754 and
H.Rept. 108-576 had included prior years' language that up to $33 million be devoted
to payment of Fair Employment Practices Agencies (FEPAs). (FEPAs are state and
local bodies with which the agency has work-sharing agreements.) The conference
agreement incorporates the House Report language regarding ADR, litigation, and
and outreach activities, and the New Freedom Initiative; and H.R. 4818 states that
sums to FEPAs not exceed $33 million.
Agency Overview. The EEOC enforces laws banning employment
discrimination based on race, color, national origin, sex, age, or disability. The
Commission's workload has increased dramatically since it was created under Title
VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act
of 1990 and the Civil Rights Act of 1991, as well as employees' growing awarenessof their rights, have made it difficult for the agency's budget and staffing resources
to keep pace with its heightened caseload.
FY2004 Funding. Under P.L. 108-199, the EEOC's appropriation for
FY2004 was $324.9 million (including rescissions). According to the conference
report (H.Rept. 108-401), the House previously had approved the same sum while the
Senate had approved $6.3 million more ($334.7 million, as the Administration
requested).
The $324.9 million appropriation for FY2004 was $18.1 million more than the
agency's FY2003 appropriation of $306.8 million (including rescissions) that
Congress had approved in P.L. 108-7. Because of a funding shortfall during FY2003,
the EEOC had received an additional appropriation of $15 million in the Emergency
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