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OGC-86-16 1 (1986-05-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabnzk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON D.C. 20 May 8, 1986 5-2205 321111 129861 To the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives This letter reports on the status of budget authority that was proposed for rescission by the President in his third special message for fiscal year 1986, February 5, 1986, but for which the Congress did not pass a rescission bill as defined in section 1011 of the Impoundment Control Act (the Act). All budget authority withheld pursuant to the rescission proposals submitted in the third message has been released by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for obligation. In the third message, the President proposed 77 rescissions of budget authority. The activities for which the funds pro- posed for rescission were provided are set forth in the enclosed listing which was submitted by the President with his third message. Section 1012(b) of the Act requires that funds proposed for rescission be made available for obligation unless the Congress completes action on a rescission bill within the 45-day period of continuous congressional session following the day such pro- posal is received by the Congress. For the rescission proposals submitted in the third message, the 45-day period ended on April 15, 1986, without the Congress having passed such a bill. One of the proposals submitted in the third message, Rescission Proposal No. R86-67, would have rescinded $223.6 million of budget authority made available to the Urban Mass Transportation Administration (UMTA) to make discretionary grants to state and local governments for public transporta- tion. Although the Congress expressly disapproved a previous deferral of the same budget authority, the President provided no substantial new basis justifying the reimpoundment. In our report of March 11, 1986, GAO/OGC-86-6, we concluded that the rescission proposal was not permitted under the Act. We advised the Congress, on March 27, 1986, that we expected the President would release the $223.6 million on April 16, but that we would bring a civil action under section 1016 of the Act to compel the release if the funds were not released by May 3. GAO/OGC-86-8. GAO/OGC-86-16

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