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OGC-93-4 1 (1993-02-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabshv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: N Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 B202.4 II1111111 February 5, 1993 148496 To the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives On December 30, 1992, the President submitted his second special impoundment message for fiscal year 1993. The message reports two deferrals of budget authority and revises the amounts of three deferrals previously reported. We have reviewed these deferrals and found them to be in accordance with the Impoundment Control Act, 2 U.S.C. § 681, et. seQ., as amended. We also report an impoundment of Department of Agriculture budget authority that should have been but was not reported to the Congress by the President under the Impoundment Control Act. Section 1015(a) of the Act, 2 U.S.C. § 686(a), requires the Comptroller General to report to the Congress whenever he finds that any officer or employee of the United States is to establish a reserve or has ordered, permitted, or approved of such a reserve of budget authority, and the President has failed to transmit a special impoundment message with respect to such a reserve. This letter is submitted in accordance with section 1015(a) and has the same effect as if it were a special message transmitted by the President. The impoundment occurs in the Department of Agriculture, Forest Service Timber Salvage Sales account (Acct. No. 12X5204) . According to the latest apportionment statement for this account, dated December 30, 1992, $222,994,486, out of total budgetary resources of $422,994,486, is being deferred by the Forest Service. This account has been subject to similar deferrals in the past (see President's 103rd Special Message for Fiscal Year 1992, Deferral No. 92- 11A). Apparently, the failure to report this otherwise routine deferral was merely an oversight on the part of OMB. We find this deferral to be in accordance with the Impoundment Control Act and, pursuant to the Act, we are apprising the Congress of this unreported withholding of budget authority. GAO/OGC-93-4

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