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PUBLIC LAW 99-000—MMMM. DD, 1985

PUBLIC LAW 99-177—DEC. 12, 1985

99 STAT. 1071

(i) identify the contracts proposed to be terminated or Contracts. modified and the proposed date of termination or modification of each such contract; (ii) identify the anticipated outlay savings for the fiscal year involved and the anticipated reduction in obligated balances with respect to each such proposed termination or modification, together with an explanation of the relationship between the obligated balances that could be cancelled and the estimated outlay savings resulting therefrom; (iii) provide documentation of the anticipated savings in outlays and obligated balances; and (iv) provide a complete rationale for the effect of each proposed termination or modification on the contract concerned and on the program, project, or activity involved. (C) Not later than September 30 of the calendar year in which the fiscal year begins (February 15 in the case of fiscal year 1986), the Comptroller General shall certify to the President and the Congress, with respect to each contract which is proposed to be terminated or modified— (i) whether the Comptroller General is able to verify that the estimated outlay savings for the fiscal year involved are achievable and would be achieved in that year; and (ii) whether the ratio between the projected outlay savings and the anticipated reduction in obligated balances is reasonable. (D)(i) In the case of a fiscal year other than fiscal year Report. 1986, each proposed contract termination or modification described in subparagraph (A) with respect to which the certification by the Comptroller General under subparagraph (C) is affirmative (with respect to both clause (i) and clause (ii) of such subparagraph) shall be included in the report of the Directors under subsection (c)(1). The report shall include the information about each such contract described in subparagraph (B)(ii). (ii) In the case of fiscal year 1986, each proposed contract termination or modification described in subparagraph (A) with respect to which the certification by the Comptroller General under subparagraph (C) is affirmative (with respect to both clause (i) and (ii) of such subparagraph) shall be included in the modification authorized by section 252(a)(6)(D)(iii) in the order issued by the President under Post, p. 1072. section 252(a)(1) with respect to fiscal year 1986. (iii) The authority of the President described in subparagraph (A) is not effective in the case of any proposed contract termination or modification with respect to which the certification by the Comptroller General under subparagraph (C) is not affirmative (with respect to both clause (i) and clause (ii) of such subparagraph). (E) For any contract termination or modification proposed pursuant to this paragraph, the President shall certify to Congress, within thirty days after the effective date of the contract termination or modification, that the amounts proposed for deobligation under such contract have in fact been deobligated and cancelled.