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OGC-86-13 1 (1986-04-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabnyp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON D.C. 2 April 16, 1986 B-220532I 1111111111111111 129659 To the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives This is to advise you of the status of $156.8 million of budget authority made available to the Department of Energy for the development, operation and maintenance of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). This budget authority, which we held was being improperly withheld, has now been made available for obliga- tion. In his third special message for fiscal year 1986, dated February 5, 1986, the President announced a deferral of budget authority appropriated for the SPR, which included $156.8 million that was subject to an earlier deferral. Although the Congress had expressly disapproved the previous deferral of the $156.8 million, the President provided no substantial new basis justifying the reimpoundment. In our report of February 25, 1986, GAO/OGC-86-5, we concluded that the deferral was not permitted under the Impoundment Control Act (the Act), 2 U.S.C. § 681. We advised the Congress, on March 4, 1986, that we contemplated bringing a civil action under section 1016 of the Act, 2 U.S.C. § 687, to compel release of these funds. GAO/OGC-86-7. We have confirmed that on April 11, 1986, the Office of Management and Budget apportioned the $156.8 million, making the funds available for obligation. Accordingly, action under section 1016 is not necessary. Comptroller General 61 of the United States GAO/OGC-86-13

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