To the Congress of the United States:
In accordance with the provisions of Section 6(c) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the report on the status of advisory committees in 1976 is herewith forwarded.
This is the fifth annual report. It is organized to provide summary information about the activities of advisory committees, and public access to specific committees and the federal agencies to whom they provide advice.
With the current government-wide, zero-base review of all advisory committees, the number of existing committees should be sharply reduced. This reduction will be reflected in the next annual report.
JIMMY CARTER
The White House,
March 29, 1977.
Note: The report is entitled "Federal Advisory Committees--Fifth Annual Report of the President, Covering Calendar Year 1976" (Government Printing Office, 184 pp.).
The message was not issued in the form of a White House press release.
Jimmy Carter, Federal Advisory Committees Message to the Congress Transmitting a Report. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/243448