Impoundment Control

President's Second Special Impoundment Message for Fiscal Year 1993 Gao ID: OGC-93-4 February 5, 1993

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. GAO reviewed these deferrals and found them to be in accordance with the Impoundment Control Act. GAO also reports an impoundment of Department of Agriculture budget authority that should have been reported by the President to Congress but was not. The impoundment involved the Forest Service Timber Salvage Sales account, while the proposed deferrals affected security assistance and emergency refugee funds.

GAO found an impoundment of the Department of Agriculture budget authority that should have been but was not reported by the President. The failure to report the routine deferral was merely an oversight on the part of the Office of Management and Budget. GAO found the deferral to be in accordance with the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Act of 1974 and apprised Congress of the unreported withholding of budget authority.



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