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107618 1 (1978-03-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacxry0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DOCUMENT RESUME 07618 - [C27678491 Analysis of Unobligated Balances in the Urban Mass Transportation Fund. March 1978. 42 pp. + appendix (12 pp.). Report by Stephen Swain; James Bell; Mitchell Bachlis. Contact: Program Analysis Div. Organization Concerned: Urban Mass Transportation Administration. Congressional Relevance: House Committee on Budget: Budget Process Task Force. Rep. Butler Derrick. Authority: Urban Mass Transit Act of 1964, as amended. Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976. Federal Aid Highway Act of 1973. National Mass Transportation Assistance Act of 1974. Urban Mass Transportation Assistance Act of 1970. Congressional Budget and Ipoundment Control Act of 1974. 23 U.S.C. 103(e). All of the Urban Mass Transportation Administration's (UMTA's) programs include grants to State or local governments since UNTA does not itself operate transit services or construct transit facilities. Unexpended balances in the UNTA account at the close of fiscal year 1977 involved $12.6 billion, $9.6 billion of which represented unobligated balances and $3.0 billion of which represented unliquidated obligations. The 1979 budget forecasts that unliquidated obligations will exceed unobligated balances at the end of that year by $576 million. Findings/Conclusions: The large dnobligated balance in the UhTA program exists primarily because of the way Congress funds and controls UMTA programs. UNTA funding has taken the form of contract authority which does not lapse at the end of the fiscal year in which it was authorized. This method was chosen to provide for advanced funding for UNTA programs. UHTA believes th *, at the present level of program option, it will utilize alast all of the unnbligated funds available by the end of 1980, as most of these funds will likely be committed by administrative reservation even if they are not formally obligated. Increases in UNTA's unliquidated balances are due primarily to the funding of projects for new rail systems, Issues related to congressional consideration of new legislation for UMTA programs involve: how to provide advanced budget authority, how much funding to privide for new heavy rai. systems, and how to simplify the complex appropriation program. (RRS)

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