Section 1015
Impoundment Control Act of 1974

TITLE X—IMPOUNDMENT CONTROL

PART B—CONGRESSIONAL CONSIDERATION OF PROPOSED RESCISSIONS, RESERVATIONS, AND DEFERRAL OF BUDGET AUTHORITY

reports by comptroller general

Sec. 1015.^[1] (a)  Failure to Transmit Special  Message.—If the Comptroller General finds that the President, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the head of any department or agency of the United States, or any other officer or employee of the United States—

(1) is to establish a reserve or proposes to defer budget authority with respect to which the President is required to transmit a special message under  section 1012 or 1013; or

(2) has ordered, permitted, or approved the establishment of such a reserve or a deferral of budget authority;

and that the President has failed to transmit a special message with respect to such reserve or deferral, the Comptroller General shall make a report on such reserve or deferral and any available information concerning it to both Houses of Congress. The provisions of this part shall apply with respect to such reserve or deferral in the same manner and with the same effect as if such report of the Comptroller General were a special message transmitted by the President under section 1012 or 1013, and, for purposes of this part, such report shall be considered a special message transmitted under section 1012 or 1013.

(b) Incorrect Classification of Special  Message.—If the President has transmitted a special message to both Houses of Congress in accordance with section 1012 or 1013, and the Comptroller General believes that the President so transmitted the special message in accordance with one of those sections when the special message should have been transmitted in accordance with the other of those sections, the Comptroller General shall make a report to both Houses of the Congress setting forth his reasons.

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COUNSEL Notes

[1] This section is classified to the U.S. Code at  262 U.S.C. 686.

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 LEGISLATIVE HISTORY NOTES

Public Laws

Pub. L. 93–344, title X, §1015, July 12, 1974, 88 Stat. 336 (Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974).

Codification

Section 1014 was formerly classified to section 1405 of Title 31 prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 31, Money and Finance, by Pub. L. 97–258, §1, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 877 (Title 31 Revision and Codification Law of 1982). 

Reaffirmation 

Pub. L. 100–119, title II, §206(c), Sept. 29, 1987, 101 Stat. 786 (Short Title: Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Reaffirmation Act of 1987) provided that:

“Sections 1015 and 1016 of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 [2 U.S.C. 686, 687] are reaffirmed.”

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