new budget authority to cover their costs is provided in advance in an appropriations Act;

a limitation on the use of funds otherwise available for the cost of a direct loan or loan guarantee program has been provided in advance in an appropriations Act; or

authority is otherwise provided in appropriation Acts.

constitutes an entitlement (such as the guaranteed student loan program or the veterans’ home loan guaranty program); or

all existing credit programs of the Commodity Credit Corporation on November 5, 1990.

The authority to incur new direct loan obligations, make new loan guarantee commitments, or modify outstanding direct loans (or direct loan obligations) or loan guarantees (or loan guarantee commitments) shall constitute new budget authority in an amount equal to the cost of the direct loan or loan guarantee in the fiscal year in which definite authority becomes available or indefinite authority is used. Such budget authority shall constitute an obligation of the credit program account to pay to the financing account.

The outlays resulting from new budget authority for the cost of direct loans or loan guarantees described in paragraph (1) shall be paid from the credit program account into the financing account and recorded in the fiscal year in which the direct loan or the guaranteed loan is disbursed or its costs altered.

All collections and payments of the financing accounts shall be a means of financing.