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AIMD-95-219R 1 (1995-09-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackxv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Accounting and Information Management Division B-262098 September 5, 1995 The Honorable Anthony A. Williams Chief Financial Officer Department of Agriculture Dear Mr. Williams: At the request of the Chairman, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry and the Ranking Minority Member, Subcommittee on Government Management, Information and Technology, House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, we reviewed the Department of Agriculture's (USDA) management and planning of telecommunications. As part of this ongoing review, we identified two telecommunications bills that included charges for leased equipment and services that are no longer being used. In these cases, USDA has been paying tens of thousands of dollars annually for equipment, such as rotary telephones and outdated modems that could not even be located, and for telephone services for an office that closed over a year ago. On July 12, 1995, we discussed these bills with the Deputy Chief Financial Officer and the National Finance Center (NFC) Director. In this meeting we recommended that USDA (1) immediately take the necessary actions to stop payments for the charges on these bills and seek recovery of past vendor charges deemed inappropriate and (2) evaluate and correct the financial management processes and controls at NFC that permitted such payments to be made. The Deputy Chief Financial Officer and the NFC Director agreed to take appropriate actions on these bills and evaluate controls at NFC for these types of payments. The purpose of this letter is to confirm our discussion and provide further perspective on disbursement control issues for USDA's consideration. AT&T Bill Number 7162119126 This consolidated monthly bill covers hundreds of items, including telecommunications modems, telephones, and other equipment, leased by various USDA agencies and offices across the nation. We identified the following charges included in this bill: GAO/AIMD-95-219R USDA Telecommunications

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