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GAO-04-648R 1 (2004-04-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaqea0001 and id is 1 raw text is: SGAO Accountability * Integrity Reliability United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 April 2, 2004 The Honorable John McCain Chairman The Honorable Ernest Hollings Ranking Minority Member Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation United States Senate The Honorable Sherwood L. Boehlert Chairman The Honorable Ralph Hall Ranking Minority member Committee on Science House of Representatives Subject: NASA: Compliance with Cost Limits Section 202 of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Authorization Act of 2000 (P.L. 106-391) requires that GAO verify NASA's accounting for amounts obligated against established limits for the space station and related space shuttle support. Under the act, obligations are limited to $25 billion for the space station and $17.7 billion for shuttle support. In the past, we reported that NASA was unable to provide detailed support for the amounts it had reported as obligated against the limits. Thus, we could not verify the amounts NASA reported to Congress in its fiscal year 2002 through 2004 budget requests. NASA's did not report obligations to date against the space station and shuttle cost limits as part of its fiscal year 2005 budget request. Therefore, there was nothing for us to audit this year and we were unable to perform the audit called for by section 202 of the act. As a result, we have no basis for verifying NASA's charges against the limits. We have provided a copy of the slides to NASA officials and they agreed with our conclusion. As discussed with your staff, the enclosed slides summarize current and past reporting issues on these legislative restrictions. If you or your staff have any GAO-04-648R NASA Compliance With Cost Limits

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