§ 686. — Reports by Comptroller General.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 2USC686]
TITLE 2--THE CONGRESS
CHAPTER 17B--IMPOUNDMENT CONTROL AND LINE ITEM VETO
SUBCHAPTER II--CONGRESSIONAL CONSIDERATION OF PROPOSED RESCISSIONS,
RESERVATIONS, AND DEFERRALS OF BUDGET AUTHORITY
Sec. 686. Reports by Comptroller General
(a) Failure to transmit special message
If the Comptroller General finds that the President, the Director of
the Office of Management and Budget, the head of any department or
agency of the United States, or any other officer or employee of the
United States--
(1) is to establish a reserve or proposes to defer budget
authority with respect to which the President is required to
transmit a special message under section 683 or 684 of this title;
or
(2) has ordered, permitted, or approved the establishment of
such a reserve or a deferral of budget authority;
and that the President has failed to transmit a special message with
respect to such reserve or deferral, the Comptroller General shall make
a report on such reserve or deferral and any available information
concerning it to both Houses of Congress. The provisions of sections 682
to 688 of this title shall apply with respect to such reserve or
deferral in the same manner and with the same effect as if such report
of the Comptroller General were a special message transmitted by the
President under section 683 or 684 of this title, and, for purposes of
sections 682 to 688 of this title, such report shall be considered a
special message transmitted under section 683 or 684 of this title.
(b) Incorrect classification of special message
If the President has transmitted a special message to both Houses of
Congress in accordance with section 683 or 684 of this title, and the
Comptroller General believes that the President so transmitted the
special message in accordance with one of those sections when the
special message should have been transmitted in accordance with the
other of those sections, the Comptroller General shall make a report to
both Houses of the Congress setting forth his reasons.
(Pub. L. 93-344, title X, Sec. 1015, July 12, 1974, 88 Stat. 336.)
Codification
Section was formerly classified to section 1405 of Title 31 prior to
the general revision and enactment of Title 31, Money and Finance, by
Pub. L. 97-258, Sec. 1, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 877.
Reaffirmation
Pub. L. 100-119, title II, Sec. 206(c), Sept. 29, 1987, 101 Stat.
786, provided that: ``Sections 1015 and 1016 of the Impoundment Control
Act of 1974 [2 U.S.C. 686, 687] are reaffirmed.''
