Message to the Congress Reporting Budget Deferrals

To the Congress of the United States:

In accordance with the Impoundment Control Act of 1974, I herewith report three new deferrals of budget authority totaling $3,570,665,449 and ten revised deferrals of budget authority now totaling $4,973,643,337.

The deferrals affect programs in the Departments of Agriculture, Defense-Military, Defense-Civil, Energy, Health and Human Services, and Transportation.

The details of these deferrals are contained in the attached report.

Ronald Reagan
The White House,
February 19, 1988.

Note: The attachment detailing the deferrals was printed in the ``Federal Register'' of March 2.