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OGC-80-11 1 (1980-05-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabanm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ______7 UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE ~ ) ~ WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 IN REPLY OFFICE OF GENERAL COUNSEL REFER TO: B-196797 May 8, 1980 To the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives The purpose of this letter is to report on the status of budget authority that was proposed for rescissio_0 but for which Congress failed to pass a rescission bill as -efined by section 1011 of the Impoundment Control Act. 1 , / In his sixth special message for fiscal year 1980, dated March 4, 1980, the President proposed the rescission of $17.0 million in budget authority that had been made available to the Department of Energy for plant and equipment for atomic energy defense activities (rescission proposal R80-4). The funds proposed for rescission had been earmarked for construc- tion of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in southeastern New Mexico. ' Section 1012(b) of the Impoundment Control Act requires that funds proposed for rescission be made available for obli- gation unless the Congress completes action on a rescission bill within the 45-day period of continuous congressional session following the day such a proposal is received by the Congress. For rescission proposal R80-4, the 45-day period ended on April 29, 1980, without the Congress having passed such a bill. We have confirmed that on April 30, 1980, the subject ?/q budget authority was apportioned by the Office of Management and Budget to the Department of Energy and that the funds were allotted to the program. /0-I Milton j. Socolar General Counsel 112268 OGC-80-11

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