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National Drug Control Program agencies are required to follow a detailed process in developing their annual budget submissions for inclusion in the Drug Control Budget. ONDCP outlines its process in circulars that it sends to agencies which provide detailed reporting instructions on how to properly prepare their drug budget submissions. By statute, the Director of ONDCP is required to provide, by July 1 of each year, budget recommendations to the heads of departments and agencies with responsibilities under the National Drug Control Program. According to ONDCP, these budget recommendations are intended to specifically delineate what priorities each agency is expected to fund in the coming budget submission. By statute, the head of each department, agency, or program of the federal government with responsibilities under the Strategy is required to transmit to the Director of ONDCP a copy of their proposed drug control budget request at the same time as the budget request is submitted to their superiors (and before submission to OMB). ONDCP refers to this request as the summer budget submission. The ONDCP Director is required to review each summer budget submission and transmit a written summary of its review to each agency stating whether the budget submission is adequate to implement the agency's responsibilities towards the objectives of the Strategy. With regard to the benefits and challenges of the budget process, officials from at least four of the six agencies we contacted reported that ONDCP's process for developing the Drug Control Budget is somewhat or very effective in (1) identifying Drug Control Budget priorities, (2) ensuring sufficiency of resources to implement the Strategy, or (3) providing a record of national drug control expenditures. The most pervasive challenges agencies we contacted identified were related to the timing of ONDCP's annual funding guidance and written reviews of agencies' budget submissions. Some agencies noted that these documents were too late to impact their initial budget formulation efforts, but ONDCP plans to issue funding guidance and written reviews earlier in future fiscal years that should address these concerns. In commenting on a draft of this report, ONDCP noted that the report provides a thoughtful review of ONDCP's process for developing programs and policies in support of the National Drug Control Strategy and highlights the various interactions it has with other federal drug control agencies. ONDCP stated that the feedback provided by the report will help ONDCP build stronger and more communicative relationships with these agencies and enable ONDCP to improve its budgetary process.