Proposed Rescission of Budget Authority for Activities within the Department of Agriculture's Conservation Program

The Impoundment Control Act requires that funds proposed for rescission be made available for obligation unless the Congress completes action on a rescission bill within a 45-day period. In his eighth special message for fiscal year 1978, the President proposed the rescission of $30,000,000 in budget authority that had been made available for drought and flood assistance activities within the Department of Agriculture's agricultural conservation program. The Congress did not pass a rescission bill within the 45-day period for this rescission proposal. The budget authority has been apportioned to the Department, and funds have been made available for obligation.