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OGC-81-8 1 (1981-05-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabbyi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON D.C. 20548 B-200685 May 13, 1981 To the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives On March 17, 1981, the resident's seventh special message for fiosral yter 1981 was transmitted to the Congress pursuant to tfle Impoundment control Act of 1974. The special message proposes 81 rescissions of budget authority totalling $11.1 billion and one new deferral totalling $3.4 million as follows: EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT R81-38 Council on Environmental Quality and Office of Environmental Quality 1111453 115306 The justification and estimated effects statements accom- panying rescission proposal R81-38 focus on the Executive's goal to eliminate duplicative regulatory activities. This rescission was proposed to further that goal by reducing the Council's staff and limiting its activities to those which are statutorily man- dated and which do not unnecessarily overlap with activities by other agencies. We have some questions concerning whether the activities being eliminated are duplicative regulatory activities. The Council was established by the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), Pub. L. No. 91-190, 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq. In exercising its powers, functions, and duties, the Council already is directed by statute to take certain measures to avoid duplication of effort and expense in order to assure that the Council's activities will not unnecessarily overlap or conflict with similar activities authorized by law and performed by esta- blished agencies. 42 U.S.C. 4345. The Council is statutorily assigned specific duties under 42 U.S.C. 4344. Briefly, these include: (1) assisting the President to prepare the Environmental Quality Report required by 42 U.S.C. 4341; (2) gathering and analyzing information concerning condi- tions and trends in the quality of the environment both current and prospective, and submitting related studies to the President; /OGC-81-8

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