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B-180224 1 (1976-05-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadats0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 0 DIGEST - NO CIRCULATION - 11-1,1A COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES I . WASHINGTON, D.C. 20545 1180224 MAY 1 01976 Tbe Ilonorable John E. %oss, Chairman oversight and Investigations Subcommittee CsoIttee on Interstate and Foreign Comerce gouse of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: This refers to your letter in which you request the advice of this office, with respect to nine agencies of the Government under study by the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, as to whether public participants in proceedings before those agencies may be assisted in any or all of the following vays: (1) the provision of funds directly to partici- pants, (2) modification of procedural rules so as to ease their financial burden on public participants, (3) provision of technical assistance by agency staff, (4) provision of legal assistance by agency staff, (5) creation of an independent public counsel, and (6) creation of a Consumer Assistance Office such as that nowemployed by the FCC. The agencies to which you refer are the Federal Communications Cosmission, the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Power Commission, the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Consumer Product Safety Com- mission, the Securities and Exchange Comission, the Food and Drug Malistration, the Environmental Protection Agency, ahd the National Elghvay Traffic Safety Administsation. Tour letter refers to our decision in the lat-ter of Costs of Inteivention, Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), B-92283 rebruary 19, 1976, to the NRC (hereafter referred to as the NRC decision) in which ft considered the legality of providing similar typea of assistance to participants and intervenors in NCR rulemaking and licensing proceedings. Due to the time constraints established by the terms of your request, W* have not solicited comments and viws of the agencies concerned on the IOetions yoUr letter poses. However, we have examined, with respect to

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