To the Congress of the United States:
In accordance with the Impoundment Control Act of 1974, I herewith report three new rescission proposals totaling $61,377,000, six new deferrals of budget authority totaling $1,209,629,624, and five revised deferrals of budget authority totaling $394,054,125.
The rescissions affect programs in the Department of Energy.
The deferrals affect programs in the Departments of Agriculture, Energy, Interior, and Treasury, and Funds Appropriated to the President.
The details of these rescission proposals and deferrals are contained in the attached report.
RONALD REAGAN
The White House,
March 12, 1986.
Note: The attachment detailing the proposed rescissions and deferrals was printed in the, "Federal Register" of March 17.
Ronald Reagan, Message to the Congress Reporting Budget Rescissions and Deferrals Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/258472