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OGC-79-12 1 (1979-05-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaazhs0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UN ITED STATES II/I/II/I!IIlIIIIlhIIIlIy WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 LM109520 IN REPLY May 30, 1979 RETO: B-115398 -/M7 CAL Z4 17-5 e/o4 To the President of the Senate and the/ Speaker of the House of Representatives/0 This letter reports the release of budget authority required to be made available for obligation pursuant to section 1012(b) of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 and provides the Congress with our co--i-m=ents on the President's 9th special message that was sent to the Congress on April 26, 1979. Release of Funds The fifth special message for fiscal year 1979 submitted by the President transmitted 10 rescission proposals (R79-2 through R79-11). Except as discussed below, we have confirmed that all of the funds involved in these 10 rescissions have either been rescinded (See Pub. L. 96-7, enacted April 9, 1979) or made available for obligation- a-required by law (31 U.S.C. 1402(b)). ------ Rescission proposal R79-2, ent of n~ey, Energy Programs, Fossil Energy Construct-ion, was not accepted by the Congress. The 45-day period of continuous session during which the funds may be withheld pending congressional consideration expired on March 27, 1979. The $50,000,000 in budget authority sought for rescission in R79-2 was, instead, made a proposed deferral (D79-55) and included in the President's 9th special message, April 26, 1979. Thus, these funds have not been made available for obligation. w0 For rescission proposal R79-10, Fore n Claims Settlement Cqmmission, Payment of Vietnam Prisoner of War Claim__ste Congress rescinded $8 million of the $9 million proposed. The remaining $1 million has not been made available for obligation but, instead, was included in deferral D79-29A, another of the items transmitted in the 9th special message Sill lih~illhhIOGC -79-12 109520 -

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