To the Congress of the United States:
In accordance with the Impoundment Control Act of 1974, I herewith report two new deferrals totalling $663.8 million and a revision to one previously transmitted deferral increasing the amount deferred by $.2 million in budget authority. These items involve the foreign military credit sales program and programs in the Departments of Commerce and the Interior.
The details of the deferrals are contained in the attached report.
JIMMY CARTER
The White House,
December 12, 1978.
Note: The attachments detailing the deferrals are printed in the FEDERAL REGISTER of December 18, 1978.
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/244140