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Budget and Spending: The Impoundment Control Process

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Report Type Reports and Testimonies
Report Date March 11, 1986
Report No. 129289
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Summary:

GAO testified on its role in the impoundment process. Under the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act, GAO: (1) reviews the President's special messages to Congress containing proposed impoundments; (2) verifies the facts and reviews the legal implications underlying each impoundment, incorporating its comments in a report to Congress; (3) reports and reclassifies any impoundments which the President has failed to report or misclassified; (4) monitors executive action to ensure that budget authority is made available for obligation as required when deferrals are disapproved or the 45-day withholding period for proposed rescissions expires without congressional approval; (5) ensures that the funds are released in time to be prudently obligated when deferred budget authority is due to expire; and (6) reports the impoundment involved as a rescission if the funds are not timely released.

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