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DOCUM1ENT RESUME
02809 - (A2153255]
[Deferral of Energy Reseatch and Development Administration
Budget Authority]. OGC-77-23; B-11E398. Jujy 28, 1977. 2 pp.
Report to the Congress; by Elmer B. Staats, Comptroller General.
Contact: Office of +he General Coursel: Special Studies and
Analysis.
Budget Function: Miscellaneous: Impoundfent Control Act of 1974
(1005).
Organizaticn Concerned: Energy Research and Development
Administration; Office of Management and Budget.
Congressional Relevance: CoLgress.
AuthLority: P.L. 94-187. P.L. 94-355.
A deferral of Eneray Research and Development
Admin.Astration (ERDA) budget authority for funds appropriated
for the Inten-e Neutron Source Facility (INSF) project should
have been, but was not, reported to the Congress by the
President pursuant to the Impoundment Control Act of 1971;. The
INSF project iF a Federal effort to study the effects of
high-level neutron irradiation on %.tals and insulators,
Findii.gs/Conclusions: In 1975, $22.1 million was authori.zed to
be alp.opriated for the INSF project. Total project costs were
estimated by ERDA to be $25.4 million. Funds were first
appropriated for the INSF Froject in fiscal year 1977 when ERDA
was provided $14.4 million. These funds will remain available
until expended. Presidential budget cuts deleted an additional
$10.9 rillion requested by ERDA in its initial fiscal year 1978
budget. ERDA advised that this deletion, if approved by the
Cangress, would have required termination of the project. Prior
to congressional reinstatement of this amount, ERDA placed $13.4
million of unobligated project funds in da ERDA reserve account.
This action was documented only in ERDA's internal finaacial
plans, and the Office of Management and Budget was not notified
of this budgetary action. Although ERDA's Cffice of the
Comptraller has requested the release of the project's funds
frow the ERDA recerve account, the $13.4 millicn remains in an
impounded staLus due to ERDA's actios placing the funds in
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