CAIRO, July 1 (Reuters) - Egypt amended again a draft budget for the 2015/2016 fiscal year and has cut the projected deficit to 8.9 percent of gross domestic product, from a projected 9.9 percent in the version released last month.

The new draft, which was published on the finance ministry's website, projected public expenditure at 864 billion Egyptian pounds ($113 billion), from 885 billion pounds in the previous draft.

Projected revenues were raised to 622.2 billion pounds from 612 billion pounds in the previous draft. ($1 = 7.6300 Egyptian pounds)

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