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 totalling $164.1 million and a revision to a previously transmitted deferral increasing the amount deferred by $1.0 million. The items involve the fossil energy construction and Strategic Petroleum Reserve programs in the Department of Energy and the payment of Vietnam prisoner of war claims in the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission.
The details of the deferrals are contained in the attached reports.
JIMMY CARTER
The White House,
April 26, 1979.
Note: The attachments detailing the deferrals are printed in the FEDERAL REGISTER of May 1, 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/250150