Impoundments: Delay in Reporting Deferral of Forest Service Budget
Authority (Letter Report, 07/22/94, GAO/OGC-94-32).

On June 8, the President submitted to Congress his sixth special
impoundment message for fiscal year 1994. The message reports two
revised deferrals of budget authority affecting the Forest Service,
which had already been reported. Although both revised deferrals were
reported on June 8, the increased amounts of budget authority reported
as deferred had actually been deferred since February 1994. In GAO's
opinion, four months constitutes an excessive amount of time to report
the revised deferrals under the Impoundment Control Act. The Office of
Management and Budget said that the reporting delay was merely an
oversight.

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 REPORTNUM:  OGC-94-32
     TITLE:  Impoundments: Delay in Reporting Deferral of Forest Service 
             Budget Authority
      DATE:  07/22/94
   SUBJECT:  Budget authority
             Deferral of budget authority
             Impoundment
             Budget obligations
             Appropriated funds
             Congressional/executive relations
             Federal procurement
             Budgetary reserves
             Reporting requirements

             
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