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Ap ril 29, 1932
B-205270
18274
The Honorable Wendell H. Ford
Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources
United States Senate
Dear Senator Ford:
This responds to the request you made to GAO staff on
October 16, 1981, during hearings on energy block grants. You
asked .halt we determine whether there had been an unreported
impoundment of funds for energy conservation, and that we oro-
vide data on State funding of energy offices and conservation.
Subsequent to your request, the GAO and Committee staff have had
a number of conversations concerning the specific information
needed by the Committee. Based on those conversations we have
addressed the following questions:
1. What is the impact of Office of Management and Bu°]get
{OM1) Bu1letin 82-1, October 7, 1981, which proviies
instructions for apportionments under continuin,] reso-
lutions, and how does it relate to the Impoundment
Control Act?
Ii. Did the $14 million deferred in D82-106, reported by
the President's third soecial message (October 23,
1081.), represent the entire amont of budget author-
ity for energy conservation witnheld by OME?
II1. Did the treatment of the apportioned budget authority
during the first cuarter by Dep'artment of Energy (DOE)
officials constitute an unreported inpoundment because
the budget authority was not obligated during this
time?
IV. Is the im.ooundment process being used to insure that
agency obligations during iscal year 1982 are con-
sistent with the President's budaez request?
Our responses to these questions are set out below.
I. OMB Bulletin 32-1
On Octoober 7, J8, the Director of 0M,!B issued OMB Bulle-
tin 82-1. The Bulletin provided instructions to agencies for
requesting apportionments of amounts ....rooriated under the
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