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GGD-92-27R 1 (1992-08-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackcu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I 'fated States GAO General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 General Government Division B-249843 August 13, 1992 I The Honorable Constance Morella 147363 House of Representatives Dear Ms. Morella: This is in response to your letter to us concerning the inquiry received from Florence Perman, your constituent, regarding the high cost of certain government publications. Ms. Perman questioned why Affirmative Employment Statistics should cost $35 per copy, and Pay Structure of the Federal Civil Service should cost $19 when ordered from the National Technical Information Service (NTIS). She noted that the World Almanac, with similar but more voluminous statistical data, is available to the public for $7.95. Under Section 3704-A of Title 15 of the United States Code, NTIS was set up to function as a clearing house for the collection and dissemination of scientific, technical, and engineering information. By law, NTIS is to be self- sufficient and should recover any costs it incurs in performing services for members of the public such as making documents available for sale (Title 15, U.S. Code 1153). Consistent with this legal mandate, NTIS officials told us that all operating costs, including salaries, rent, utilities, marketing, promoting, printing, and postage, are paid from sales income, not from tax-supported congressional appropriations. In addition to serving as a clearinghouse, NTIS serves as a permanent archive for all reports acquired by the government, now numbering over 2 million. These reports represent hundreds of billions of dollars spent by federal agencies, state and local government, and foreign governments on research and development. Maintaining this archive requires the dedication of money, facilities, and personnel. These costs are included in the prices set for the information products made available by NTIS. According to NTIS, it receives approximately 65,000 new information products on an annual basis, in addition to the 2 million reports in the archive. Of the 2 million reports, only 300 reports sold more than 100 copies last year. It is GAO/GGD-92-27R, Publication Costs

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