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OGC-81-1 1 (1980-11-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabbfe0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES I V WASHINGTON D.C. JIM4S B-200685 November 10, 1980 To the President of the Senate and the l f11lll 111[Jl[1JJ1111 Speaker of the House of Representatives 113745 On October 1, 1980, the ~resident's first special message for fie a1 year 19811was transmitted to the Congress pursuant to the Impoundment Con rol Act of 1974. (te special message proposed 22 deferrals of budget authority totalling $619.1 million as follows: DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE D81-1 Forest Service Timber Salvage Sales 12X5204 Section 14(n) of the National Forest Management Act of 1976, Public Law 94-588, 16 U.S.C. 472a(h), directs the Secre- tary of Agriculture to develop utilization standards, methods of measurement, and harvesting practices for the removal of trees or forest products 0 provide for the optimum practical use of the wood material. QIn situations involving salvage of insect-infested, dead, damaged, or down timber, and to remove associated trees for stand improvement, the Secretary is authorized to require the pur- chasers of such timber to make monetary deposits to a designated fund as part of the payment for the timber.) The fund is used, in part, to cover the cost for Forest Service sale preparation and supervision of the harvesting of such timber. The P esident's special message states that the deferral is necessary because of the time lag between the deposit of receipts from salva e sales and the expenditure o funds to cover costs associated with making additional sales. This justification of D81-1 is identical to those used for deferrale in fiscal years 1978- 1980. An examination of this account over the last 4 years shows that the Administration has increased the amount of funds deferred from $4.5 million in fiscal year 1978 to $16.5 million this year. The total budgetary resources available also have increased, from $11 million in fiscal year 1978 to $27.7 million this year. In each of the last 4 years, the amount deferred has been at least 40 percent of the total budgetary resources available. Section 14(h) provides that deposits to the fund are to remain available until expended to cover the cost of accomplish- ing the purposes for which deposited. However, section 14(h) OGC-81-1

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