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OGC-80-14 1 (1980-06-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabary0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 OFFICE OF GENERAL COUNSEL ,.FERT0 B-196797 June 23, 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- wa&.sproposed for rescissio but for which Congress failed to pass a rescission bill as defined in section 1011 of the Impoundment Control Act. In his seventh special message for fiscal year 1980, dated April 16, 1980, the President proposed 53 rescissions totalling $1,472.7 million in budget'authority that had been made available for various programs and agencies. Section 1012(b) of the Impoundment Control Act requires that funds proposed for rescission be made avail- able for obligation unless the Congress completes action on a rescission bill within the first 45-day period of continuous session of the Congress following the date such proposal is received by the congress. For rescis- sion proposals R80-5 thru R80-57, the 45-day period ended on June 4, 1980, without the Congress having passed such a bill. We have confirmed that on June 5, 1980, the budget authority covered by these rescission proposals was apportioned by the Office of Management and Budget to the proper agencies for allotment to the programs involved. The seventh message included a proposal (R80-36) to rescind $149.951 million available to the Health Resources Administration, Department of Health and Human Services. The proposed rescission included $97.8 million which had been proposed for rescission in an earlier message (R80-2A) but for which Congress failed to pass a rescission bill. Because the 45-day period during which funds may be withheld pending Congressional consideration of a rescis- sion bill expired without such a bill being passed, the funds proposed for rescission had to be made available for obligation. The Executive branch may again request that Congress rescind these funds, but the second request does OGC-80-14 - ~Iz ~' ~ i~J , O -O,/ (-) % .'f 6 El 0.,

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