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Comments on Forty-Two Proposed Deferrals of Budget Authority Contained in the President's Second Special Message for Fiscal Year 1978

OGC-78-1 Published: Oct 21, 1977. Publicly Released: Oct 21, 1977.
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The President's second special message to Congress for fiscal year 1978 contained 42 deferral proposals affecting a total of $1,480,612,000 in budget authority. Information provided in the deferral proposals for the following agencies is correct, and the actions being proposed in these cases have been clearly and accurately stated: the Department of Agriculture; the Department of Commerce; the Department of Defense; the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare; the Department of the Interior; the Department of Justice; the Department of the Treasury; the General Services Administration; the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission; the Interstate Commerce Commission; the U.S. Information Agency; and the United States Railway Association.

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AppropriationsBudget administrationexecutive relationsDeferral of budget authorityImpoundmentPresidential messagesBudget deferralsBudget authorityClaims settlementMultiple-year budget authority