Plan for Consumer Panel Cuts Revoked
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WASHINGTON — Federal budget writers have rescinded plans for large funding cuts and personnel reductions in the Consumer Product Safety Commission in the next fiscal year, the agency’s chairman said Friday.
Last week, the Office of Management and Budget told the commission to cut its budget for fiscal 1986, which begins Oct. 1, by 30% and its staff by 25%.
But Chairman Terrence Scanlon, a Democrat who has supported President Reagan’s policy of deregulation, said that after he negotiated with OMB, it was decided that the panel would take only the 10% administrative cuts and 5% personnel pay cuts ordered for all federal domestic agencies.
The new proposed commission budget for 1986 will be $33.7 million, or $8.7 million more than the original figure set by OMB of $25 million. The commission’s budget for the current fiscal year is $36 million.
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