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This Data Element is intended to identify, for tracking purposes, special unplanned events, for which expenditures and costs are to be tracked, whereby funding might or might not have been previously established for contingency events, e.g., the "Tsunami Disaster" or the "9/11/01 Terrorist Attacks" or other similar unforeseen events. The purpose of the contingency code is to identify the budget execution records process for contingency events that occur, in order to provide a basis for recouping funds expended, i.e., to justify requests for resources needed to fund the contingency event after the fact. |