USMS Obligation to Take Steps to Avoid Anticipated Appropriations Deficiency, Memorandum for the General Counsel, United States Marshals Service [May 11, 1999]   [open pdf - 30KB]

"Under the apportionment provisions of the Antideficiency Act, the United States Marshals Service has an affirmative obligation to take steps to avoid a deficiency in its Federal Prisoner Detention budget and any drastic curtailment of its prisoner detention services by reducing current expenditures and/or exploring alternative sources of funding that would not depend upon the receipt of additional funds from Congress."