The phrase "authorized budget" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a budget that has been officially approved or sanctioned for use in a project or organization.
Example: "Before we proceed with the project, we need to ensure that we have an authorized budget in place to cover all expenses."
Alternatives: "approved budget" or "sanctioned budget".
The National Science Foundation would see its authorized budget double over 5 years, to $11.2 billion in 2011.
But he says it holds "great promise," and "very soon" will be taken out of WIHG and set up as a full-fledged national institute with an authorized budget of $70 million over the next 5 years.
"Senator Tom Harkin (D IA) and Representative Rosa DeLauro (D CT) have sponsored identical bills that would designate NIH as 'emergency spending' and boost its authorized budget by 10% annually in 2015 and 2016 and by 5% for each of the next 5 years," Mervis wrote.
Even if legislators agree to authorize budget levels higher than those in the Republican draft, there's no guarantee that Congress will come up with the money.
The SEC's fiscal year 2008 authorized spending budget: $906 million.
Of course, we are only authorized a budget for this year of $1.279 trillion.
According to Wilson, he gave Atomic Energy Commission chairman Glenn T. Seaborg his assurance "signed in blood" that he would not exceed the authorized $250 million budget and "would rot in Hell" if he did.
Mr. Braun had championed "Lost," even authorizing a budget of $12 million for the two-hour pilot, about three times the norm.
It will probably be another year or two, for example, before Universal's lineup completely reflects her choices -- the movies to which she gave the so-called green light by authorizing a budget and allowing a producer to start shooting a film.
In addition to authorizing large budget increases for those agencies, the bill advocated for a new energy technology effort at DOE, the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy.
WASHINGTON -- The failure of Congress to authorize a budget for the Federal Aviation Administration has put some 4,000 agency employees and tens of thousands of contractors temporarily out of work.
