Reading Room Document

Continuation of Agency Activities During a Lapse in Both Authorization and Appropriation

During a lapse in both an agency's authorization and its appropriation, activities may continue only to the extent they were authorized prior to the enactment of any specific lapsed authorization, and only to the extent they fit within the "emergency" exception to the Antideficiency Act. The OLC does not provide release dates for its opinions, so the release date listed is the date on which the opinion was authored. The original opinion is available at www.justice.gov/file/23161/download.

September 17, 1982