tary message shall be delivered, referred, and printed as provided in subsection (a). The Comptroller General shall promptly notify the House of Representatives and the Senate of any changes in the information submitted by him under subsection (b) which may be necessitated by such revision.

(d) PRINTING IN FEDERAL REGISTER.-Any special message transmitted under section 1012 or 1013, and any supplementary message transmitted under subsection (c), shall be printed in the first issue of the Federal Register published after such transmittal.

(e) 1 CUMULATIVE REPORTS OF PROPOSED RESCISSIONS, RESERVATIONS, AND DEFERRALS OF BUDGET AUTHORITY.

(1) The President shall submit a report to the House of Representatives and the Senate, not later than the 10th day of each month during a fiscal year, listing all budget authority for that fiscal year with respect to which, as of the first day of such month

(A) he has transmitted a special message under section 1012 with respect to a proposed rescission or a reservation; and

(B) he has transmitted a special message under section 1013 proposing a deferral.

Such report shall also contain, with respect to each such proposed rescission or deferral, or each such reservation, the information required to be submitted in the special message with respect thereto under section 1012 or 1013.

(2) Each report submitted under paragraph (1) shall be printed in the first issue of the Federal Register published after its submission.

REPORTS BY COMPTROLLER GENERAL

SEC. 1015. (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 1012 or 1013; 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 this part 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 1012 or 1013, and, for purposes of this part, such report shall be considered a special message transmitted under section 1012 or

1013.

Sec. 204 (12) of the Fiscal Year Transition Act, Public Law 94-272, 90 Stat. 383, approved April 21, 1976, provides for treatment of the transition quarter between July 1, 1976 through September 30, 1976, as part of a fiscal year beginning July 1, 1975.

(b) INCORRECT CLASSIFICATION OF SPECIAL MESSAGE.-If the President has transmitted a special message to both Houses of Congress in accordance with section 1012 or 1013, 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.

SUITS BY COMPTROLLER GENERAL

SEC. 1016. If, under section 1012 (b) or 1013 (b), budget authority is required to be made available for obligation and such budget authority is not made available for obligation, the Comptroller General is hereby expressly empowered, through attorneys of his own selection, to bring a civil action in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia to require such budget authority to be made available for obligation, and such court is hereby expressly empowered to enter in such civil action, against any department, agency, officer, or employee of the United States, any decree, judgment, or order which may be necessary or appropriate to make such budget authority available for obligation. The courts shall give precedence to civil actions brought under this section, and to appeals and writs from decisions in such actions, over all other civil actions, appeals, and writs. No civil action shall be brought by the Comptroller General under this section until the expiration of 25 calendar days of continuous session of the Con gress following the date on which an explanatory statement by the Comptroller General of the circumstances giving rise to the action contemplated has been filed with the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate.

PROCEDURE IN HOUSE AND SENATE

SEC. 1017. (a) REFERRAL.-Any rescission bill introduced with respect to a special message or impoundment resolution introduced with respect to a proposed deferral of budget authority shall be referred to the appropriate committee of the House of Representatives or the Senate, as the case may be.

(b) DISCHARGE OF COMMITTEE.

(1) If the committee to which a rescission bill or impoundment resolution has been referred has not reported it at the end of 25 calendar days of continuous session of the Congress after its intro duction, it is in order to move either to discharge the committee from further consideration of the bill or resolution or to discharge the committee from further consideration of any other rescission bill with respect to the same special message or impoundment resolution with respect to the same proposed deferral, as the case may be, which has been referred to the committee.

(2) A motion to discharge may be made only by an individual favoring the bill or resolution, may be made only if supported by one-fifth of the Members of the House involved (a quorum being present), and is highly privileged in the House and privileged in the Senate (except that it may not be made after the committee has reported a bill or resolution with respect to the same special

message or the same proposed deferral, as the case may be); and debate thereon shall be limited to not more than 1 hour, the time to be divided in the House equally between those favoring and those opposing the bill or resolution, and to be divided in the Senate equally between, and controlled by, the majority leader and the minority leader or their designees. An amendment to the motion is not in order, and it is not in order to move to reconsider the vote by which the motion is agreed to or disagreed to. (c) FLOOR CONSIDERATION IN THE HOUSE.

(1) When the committee of the House of Representatives has reported, or has been discharged from further consideration of a rescission bill or impoundment resolution, it shall at any time thereafter be in order (even though a previous motion to the same effect has been disagreed to) to move to proceed to the consideration of the bill or resolution. The motion shall be highly privileged and not debatable. An amendment to the motion shall not be in order, nor shall it be in order to move to reconsider the vote by which the motion is agreed to or disagreed to.

(2) Debate on a rescission bill or impoundment resolution shall be limited to not more than 2 hours, which shall be divided equally between those favoring and those opposing the bill or resolution. A motion further to limit debate shall not be debatable. In the case of an impoundment resolution, no amendment to, or motion to recommit, the resolution shall be in order. It shall not be in order to move to reconsider the vote by which a rescission bill or impoundment resolution is agreed to or disagreed to.

(3) Motions to postpone, made with respect to the consideration of a rescission bill or impoundment resolution, and motions to proceed to the consideration of other business, shall be decided without debate.

(4) All appeals from the decisions of the Chair relating to the application of the Rules of the House of Representatives to the procedure relating to any rescission bill or impoundment resolution shall be decided without debate.

(5) Except to the extent specifically provided in the preceding provisions of this subsection, consideration of any rescission bill or impoundment resolution and amendments thereto (or any conference report thereon) shall be governed by the Rules of the House of Representatives applicable to other bills and resolutions, amendments, and conference reports in similar circumstances. (d) FLOOR CONSIDERATION IN THE SENATE.—

(1) Debate in the Senate on any rescission bill or impoundment resolution, and all amendments thereto (in the case of a rescission bill) and debatable motions and appeals in connection therewith, shall be limited to not more than 10 hours. The time shall be equally divided between, and controlled by, the majority leader and the minority leader or their designees.

(2) Debate in the Senate on any amendment to a rescission bill shall be limited to 2 hours, to be equally divided between, and controlled by, the mover and the manager of the bill. Debate on any amendment to an amendment, to such a bill, and debate on any debatable motion or appeal in connection with such a bill or an impoundment resolution shall be limited to 1 hour, to be equally divided between, and controlled by, the mover and the manager of

the bill or resolution, except that in the event the manager of the bill or resolution is in favor of any such amendment, motion, or appeal, the time in opposition thereto, shall be controlled by the minority leader or his designee. No amendment that is not germane to the provisions of a rescission bill shall be received. Such leaders or either of them, may, from the time under their control on the passage of a rescission bill or impoundment resolution, allot addi tional time to any Senator during the consideration of any amend ment, debatable motion, or appeal.

(3) A motion to further limit debate is not debatable. In th case of a rescission bill, a motion to recommit (except a motion t recommit with instructions to report back within a specified num ber of days, not to exceed 3, not counting any day on which th Senate is not in session) is not in order. Debate on any such motion to recommit shall be limited to one hour, to be equally divide between, and controlled by, the mover and the manager of th concurrent resolution. In the case of an impoundment resolution no amendment or motion to recommit is in order.

(4) The conference report on any rescission bill shall be in order in the Senate at any time after the third day (excluding Sat urdays, Sundays, and legal holidays) following the day on whic such a conference report is reported and is available to Member of the Senate. A motion to proceed to the consideration of the con ference report may be made even though a previous motion to th same effect has been disagreed to.

(5) During the consideration in the Senate of the conferenc report on any rescission bill, debate shall be limited to 2 hours, t be equally divided between, and controlled by, the majority leade and minority leader or their designees. Debate on any debatab motion or appeal related to the conference report shall be limite to 30 minutes, to be equally divided between, and controlled b the mover and the manager of the conference report.

(6) Should the conference report be defeated, debate on an request for a new conference and the apponitment of confere shall be limited to one hour, to be equally divided between, an controlled by, the manager of the conference report and the mino ity leader or his designee, and should any motion be made instruct the conferees before the conferees are named, debate o such motion shall be limited to 30 minutes, to be equally divide between, and controlled by, the mover and the manager of th conference report. Debate on any amendment to any such instru tions shall be limited to 20 minutes to be equally divided betwee and controlled by, the mover and the manager of the conferen report. In all cases when the manager of the conference reports in favor of any motion, appeal, or amendment, the time in oppos tion shall be under the control of the minority leader or h designee.

(7) In any case in which there are amendments in disagre ment, time on each amendment shall be limited to 30 minutes, to equally divided between, and controlled by, the manager of th conference report and the minority leader or his designee. amendment that is not germane to the provisions of such amen ments shall be received.

Approved July 12, 1974.

AN ACT To provide authority to expedite procedures for consideration and approval of projects drawing upon more than one Federal assistance program, to simplify requirements for operation of those projects, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Joint Funding Simplification Act of 1974”.

PURPOSE

SEC. 2. The purpose of this Act is to enable State and local governments and private, nonprofit organizations to use Federal assistance more effectively and efficiently, and to adapt that assistance more readily to their particular needs through the wider use of projects drawing upon resources available from more than one Federal agency, program, or appropriation. It is the further purpose of this Act to encourage Federal-State arrangements under which local governments and private, nonprofit organizations may more effectively and efficiently combine Ŝtate and Federal resources in support of projects of common interest to the governments and organizations concerned.

BASIC RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE PRESIDENT AND HEADS OF FEDERAL

AGENCIES

SEC. 3. (a) The President shall promulgate such regulations as may be necessary or appropriate to assure that this Act is applied by all Federal agencies in a consistent manner and in accordance with its purposes. He may, for this purpose, require that Federal agencies adopt or prescribe procedures that will assure that applicants for assistance to projects funded pursuant to the provisions of this Act make appropriate efforts (1) to secure the views and recommendations. of non-Federal agencies that may be significantly affected by such projects, and (2) to resolve questions of common interest to those agencies prior to submission of any application.

(b) Subject to such regulations as the President may prescribe, and to other applicable law, the heads of Federal agencies, by internal agency order or interagency agreement, may take the following

actions:

(1) Identification of related programs likely to be particularly suitable or appropriate for providing joint support for specific kinds of projects thereunder.

(2) Development and promulgation of guidelines, model or illustrative projects, joint or common application forms, and other material or guidance to assist in the planning and development of projects drawing support from different programs.