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PUBLIC LAW 97-000—MMMM. DD, 1981

95 STAT. 762

PUBLIC LAW 97-35—AUG. 13, 1981 the amounts in the Budget of the United States Government on the basis of which the reduction described in this subsection is calculated. REDUCTION IN EXPENDITURES FOR TRAVEL BY FEDERAL EMPLOYEES

31 USC 11. 31 USC 1401.

31 USC 1402.

SEC. 1732. (a) The President shall submit with the Budget of the United States Government transmitted by the President under section 201(a) of the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921, in January, 1982, a rescission bill (as that term is defined in section 1011(3) of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974) to reduce by the amount described in subsection (b) the total amount of funds appropriated for the fiscal year 1982 which may be obligated for direct administrative travel for all departments, agencies, and instrumentalities of the executive branch of the Government. Such bill shall be accompanied by a special message specifying the matters required by paragraphs (1) through (5) of section 1012(a) of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 with respect to the rescission proposal and shall specifically allocate the reduction in such total amount required by the preceding sentence among the departments, agencies, and instrumentalities of the executive branch. In making such allocation, the President shall not— (1) propose the reduction of any amounts to be obligated for debt collection, supervision of loans, necessary and essential law enforcement activities, or emergency national defense activities of the Federal Government; or (2) propose the reduction of the total amount which may be obligated by any department, agency, or instrumentality for direct administrative travel for officers and employees of such department, agency, or instrumentality by more than 15 percent of the amount proposed thereof in such budget. (b) The amount of the reduction referred to in subsection (a) shall be $100,000,000 less the difference between— (1) the amounts which can be identified for the direct administrative travel referred to in subsection (a) in the Budget of the 5 United States Government for the fiscal year 1982 which was > transmitted by the President on January 15, 1981, under section )v 201(a) of the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921, and (2) the amounts appropriated for the fiscal year 1982 for such purposes, to the extent that the amounts described in paragraph (1) exceed the amounts described in paragraph (2). The special message required by subsection (a) shall identify the amounts in the appropriations Acts and the amounts in the Budget of the United States Government on the basis of which the reduction described in this subsection is calculated. CHAPTER 2—BLOCK GRANT FUNDS DISTRIBUTION OF BLOCK GRANT FUNDS

31 USC 1243 "°*^

SEC. 1741. (a) To help assure that (1) block grant funds are allocated for programs of special importance to meet the needs of local governments, their residents, and other eligible entities, and (2) all eligible urban and rural local governments, their residents, and other eligible entities are treated fairly in the distribution of such funds, each State which receives block grant funds under this Act shall comply with the requirements of this chapter, to the extent that such funds may be used at the discretion of the State, as described in subsection (b)(1)(B).