---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 233"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "233"
heading: "Operation and maintenance budget presentation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/233"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part I — Organization and General Military Powers"
  - "Chapter 9 — Defense Budget Matters"
---

# §233. Operation and maintenance budget presentation

- (a) **Identification of Baseline Amounts in O&M Justification Documents.—** In any case in which the amount requested in the President’s budget for a fiscal year for a [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense operation and maintenance [program](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1), project, or activity is different from the amount appropriated for that [program](/usc/10/2101.md?p=1), project, or activity for the current year, the O&M justification documents supporting that budget shall identify that appropriated amount and the difference between that amount and the amount requested in the budget, stated as an amount and as a percentage.
- (b) **Navy for Ship Depot Maintenance and for Intermediate Ship Maintenance.—** In the O&M justification documents for the Navy for any fiscal year, amounts requested for ship depot maintenance and amounts requested for intermediate ship maintenance shall be identified and distinguished.
- (c) **Definitions.—** In this section:
  - (1) The term “O&M justification documents” means [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense budget justification documents with respect to accounts for operation and maintenance submitted to the [congressional defense committees](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-16) in support of the [Department](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-6) of Defense [component](/usc/10/3011.md?p=13) of the President’s budget for any fiscal year.
  - (2) The term “President’s budget” means the budget of the President submitted to Congress under [section 1105 of title 31](/usc/31/1105.md) for any fiscal year.
  - (3) The term “current year” means the fiscal year during which the President’s budget is submitted in any year.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 108–375, div. A, title X, § 1003(a)(1), Oct. 28, 2004, 118 Stat. 2035.)