OMB Circular A-94 Guidelines and Discount Rates for Benefit-Cost Analysis of Federal Programs  

Date: 
10-29-1992
Change / Revision Date: 
03-15-2022

The goal of this Circular is to promote efficient resource allocation through well-informed decision-making by the Federal Government. It provides general guidance for conducting benefit-cost and cost-effectiveness analyses. It also provides specific guidance on the discount rates to be used in evaluating Federal programs whose benefits and costs are distributed over time. The general guidance will serve as a checklist of whether an agency has considered and properly dealt with all the elements for sound benefit-cost and cost-effectiveness analyses.

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