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OGC-81-13 1 (1981-07-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabcdl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL Or THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON D.C. 20548 B-200685 July 13, 1981 To the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives On June 8, 1981, the ,President's tenth special message for fiscal year 1981 was transmitted to the Congress pursuant to the Impoundment Control Act of 1974. The special message proposes four rescissions of budget authority totalling $114.1 million as follows: ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY1 R81-156 Research and Development 681/20107 1179 R81-157 Abatement and Control & Compliance 681/20108 The funds proposed for rescission in R81-156 and R81-157 total $100 million. EPA officials informed us that in mid-May they were orally notified that these funds were going to be pro- posed for rescission. Consequently, program activity was delayed and funds were frozen by the agency in order to preserve them pending the formal submission of this impoundment message. We first became aware of the agency's actions on May 26, 1981. After talking with agency officials, we informed OMB that we believed that impoundments at EPA existed and that a special message was required to be reported to the Congress. OMB acknowl- edged that impoundment proposals affecting EPA were being con- sidered along with proposals affecting other agencies, and that a special message containing all of these proposals would be transmitted to the Congress in mid-June after the Administration finalized the proposals. We informed OMB that because EPA was withholding funds from programs and because we already had begun accumulating the infor- mation necessary for GAO to issue its own impoundment message as authorized by section 1015(a), 31 U.S.C. 1405(a), it would be inappropriate for the issuance of a special message to be delayed further. OMB agreed to separate the proposed EPA rescissions from other proposals being considered, and transmitted this mes- sage to the Congress on June 8, 1981. The other proposals sub- sequently were reported in the eleventh special message, dated June 19, 1981.

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