To the Congress of the United States:
In accordance with the Impoundment Control Act of 1974, I herewith report four new deferrals of budget authority totalling 861.9 million and a revision to one previously transmitted deferral increasing the amount deferred by $3.8 million. These items involve the Departments of Agriculture and Commerce and the Railroad Retirement Board.
The details of each deferral are contained in the attached reports.
JIMMY CARTER
The White House,
September 27, 1979.
Note: The attachments detailing the deferrals are printed in the FEDERAL REGISTER of October 2, 1979.
Jimmy Carter, Budget Deferrals Message to the Congress. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/248474