To introduce a new report, Lapsed Appropriation Payment Schedule (LAP130), and instruct agencies on its use.

Agencies are responsible for:

1. Monitoring Vouchers to ensure they process before appropriations lapse, including ensuring that sufficient fund cash balances are present to pay vouchers that are submitted for payment.
   
   
2. Deleting vouchers charging lapsed appropriations from the CAS in order to avoid overstating expenditures, and creating out-of-balance vouchers payable on the CAS.

Failure to meet these responsibilities, as instructed in this bulletin, will have a negative impact on your agency's Risk Assessment Rating, which could result in reducing your agency's Quick Pay Limit.

LAP130 reports, listing vouchers charging appropriations about to lapse, will be forwarded to agencies daily during June and September. LAP130 reports, listing vouchers charging appropriations that have lapsed and will be purged from the CAS, will be forwarded to agencies daily during March.

Determine whether vouchers listed should be paid or deleted.

• If the voucher should be paid, take appropriate action following instructions and schedules in the annual lapsing bulletins issued for June and September or the annual Fiscal Year End bulletin issued for March.

  Note especially the last payment dates and certification dates specified in these bulletins.

• If the voucher should be deleted, follow normal procedures for deleting a voucher.

  Note: Because these vouchers are recorded as an expenditure against agency appropriations, the unexpended appropriation balance is reduced. If these vouchers are deleted prior to lapsing, then the unexpended balance of the appropriation is restored and becomes immediately available for permissible program needs.