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OGC-85-18 1 (1985-09-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabnts0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES 10 It'0 WASHINGTON D.C. 2 B-216664 September 26, 1985 II Uil lll illl To the President of the Senate and the 128040 Speaker of the House of Representatives This letter reports a rescission of budget authority, appropriated to the Office of Refugee Resettlement, Department of Health and Human Services, that should have been, but was not, reported to the Congress by the President pursuant to the Impoundment Control Act of 1974. Section 1015(a) of the Impoundment Control Act (2 U.S.C. S 686(a)) requires the Comptroller General to report to the Congress whenever he finds that any officer or employee of the United States has ordered, permitted, or approved the estab- lishment of a reserve of budget authority, and the President has failed to transmit a special message with respect to such reserve. Because it appears that there are no plans to obli- gate these funds before they expire, we are reporting the withholding as a rescission proposal. The rescission in question occurs in the Refugee and Entrant Targeted Assistance Program (the Program), adminis- tered by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). Funding for the Program was the subject of our decision B-219061, June 28, 1985. At that time, ORR had interpreted the Continu- ing Resolution which funded the Program (Pub L. No. 98-473, 98 Stat. 1837, 1963, Oct. 12, 1984) as providing for a $50 million funding level in fiscal year (FY) 85. ORR regarded a carryover balance from FY 1984 of $39.026 million as counting toward the $50 million with only $10.974 million in new budget authority available for FY 1985 under the Continuing Resolu- tion. We, on the other hand, concluded that the Congress had intended that the $50 million provided in the Continuing Resolution be in addition to the carryover from fiscal year 1984 resulting in a total of $89.026 million available for obligation in FY 1985. Until our June 28 opinion, the delay in obligating targeted assistance funds for FY 85 was the result of ORR's belief that $50 million was the correct figure for the 1985 funding level. Moreover, there was at the time of our GAO/OGC-85-18 0 O ) C I

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