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B-178205(1) 1 (1974-06-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaafpl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: &3f /-1 S c--7 i-A s~ %4~E ~2/9/zt. 'C Ct a~.C. 5* 1 4 1 1.bnflotable Pau Sof F~4remOl Sf . ~ A;4. sr, Findley$ This Is n r tdatsotati4n a Jis gasolin-a ral m ia has authorit; p.-' --'-I- COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, fD.C. 20548 JUN 13 1974 I Flndloy' tatives L11q0958 ,iiif/ Ssponse to your recent letter aspking hahther the ted within is8tina laws in expending q12 Million to tiLcming coupons. You also atk veteher the Administra- p to ewend trney for storage of the coupons. The Federal Energy Office (Fl) has contendad, in letters to this Wtce and to the Chairman of the Subcamittee on the Departent of the hterior and realated Azeacies. Ucuse Comittee on Arpropriations, aud in I , tetrnony before both House and Senate Interior Appropriations Subco- . ttcesI, as wall as the House Legal and onetary Affairs Subeor nttee of 1-4 Coai'tee on Goveaxent Operations, tbat expenditures for the printng . ! o 3--tznth suppty of coupons were athoried by the upplmantal Appro/ Friationa Act, 1974, Thabi. L. 93-2454nevacted January 3A x'9!45/ A totaeo 113#545Q0O vas appropriated for Salaries and expenses, -ith a proviso 4t $10 million vas to be set aside as a contn n-ccy resevva, to be vrlable only if the Emrennc nergy Act or a ti as f:er enacted 1e1w fnds for the Lnitial printing of woupons were drama (rm the remin.ng $23p545,000, W67ile the lan-uage of the Supplenental Appropriatmx.a Act does not ifkically mation rationing, the hearings ad floor batc on the ttsure reflect deep congressional concern as to viether the Adziinistra Itt was prepared to ta-e thW necessary ste, should the Arab oil csbatrgo Ctztnue mauch longer. Recognizing that a program as co-zlex as rationing L-'lt be instituted avor-ight, hoth 1buse and Ienate .proflpatonS ltte nambare urged F _itnes- to gear ups sould it be necessa-y t4 iSsue coupons. See, for epe, the stztrcunt by Smator Alan Bible, tUr-&a n subcoritte o n Intarior and Rlated Agenc j e Senato comIttee ,..propriations, at hearings on the tat Apn marlations Act, 4 ovjaner 19, 1973, p. 765. Ater -pressing 1z =1eb _¢.°ss grave -ienab-out the of the Arab az$-rgo on th supply of -gasoline, he told the itness, ,art Erich R-, zausner, Deputy Axsset-nt Scaretary, ,eg et DeparTmnt Q4h Interior)st BEST DCUMENT AVAILABLE You hd bettor gear up to take care of it iTa coupon rattioning option j under the Moat pessi.istic conditions, Lzk _ _ _ _--- DIGEST - NO CIRCULATION Ql) -5\,, ) I 402

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