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B-163758 1 (1973-03-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaaehc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: RESTR16TE'D - Not to be released Outside the Genera Accounting Office except on the basis of speific approval by the Office of Congressional Relations, a record of which LEK., is kept by the Distribution Se c n, P bications O f GAS COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED TAT WASHINGTON, D.C. A0548 B-163758 RELEASED MAR _J 31973 The Honorable Mike Gravel United States Senate Dear Senator Gravel: By letter of May 10, 1972, you forwarded for our consideration correspondence from Mr. F. D. Remedios, Office Manager, Yutana Barge Lines, Inc., Nenana, Alaska. Mr. Remedios was greatly concerned with the difficulties Yutana was having in gen .o sof .i .i(GLs) to the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Alaska for services ren- dered. We discussed these problems with Mr. Remedios and Bureau officials in Washington, D.C., and reviewed the Bu- reau's procedures for processing and paying transportation vouchers. ACCOMPLISHMENT OF GBLs The problem of getting GBLs accomplished, particularly difficult and time consuming at the remote villages in Alaska served by Yutana, will be alleviated by the recent enactment of Public Law 92-550, the Transportation Payment Act of 1972, which was designed to f c itate thejayment of transportation hages. This legislation eep t-fansportation payments from e provisions of section 529 of title 31, United States Code, which prohibit the Government from paying for services until they are rendered and which require the accomplishment of the consignee's certificate of delivery on the present GBL. The enactment of Public Law 92-550 has permitted us to go forward with a revised GBL which, among other things, will substitute a carrier's certificate of delivery for the present consignee's certificate of delivery. The GBL will be placed in the hands of the carrier at origin and will remain in the carrier's system for certification of good-order delivery by the last line-haul carrier authorized to bill for the charges. As Yutana is usually both the originating and the delivering carrier, it would retain possession of the GBL throughout the movement and would be responsible for certifying as to good- order delivery of the cargo. Under the revised procedures, loss, damage, and/or shortage will be handled separately from the GBL. !~1

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