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D-020 - No blended grand total

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Where lane subtotals sit on incompatible bases such as disbursement versus obligation, annual versus cumulative, or federal versus federal-plus-state, the rigorous output is a set of basis-segregated subtotals rather than one synthetic total.

Decision ID: D-020

References: Section 1 Section 5 Section 12 Section 14 Section 16

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