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B-177631 1 (1973-06-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaagdw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASIHINGTON. D.C. 20548 UN~JUN B-177 2 6I31 LM096338 The Honorable Les Aspin House of Representatives Dear Mr. Aspin: In accordance with your request of December 4, 1972, and our letter of December 19, 1972, we reviewed the Navy'.yjola- tion of the Antidefi.iency Act. Specifically, you asked: 1. During what years did the Department of the Navy vio- late its spending limits? What was the amount of the violation in dollars for each fiscal year? 2. In what accounts did the violation of the Antidefi- ciency Act occur? 3. Would the General Accounting Office evaluate the ade- quacy, completeness, and frankness of the Navy's in- ternal reports? As agreed, we reviewed the Naval Audit Service's work relating to reported violations of the Antideficiency Act and the Navy's actions to improve control over the Military Per- sonnel, Navy (MPN) appropriation including the Naval Audit Service's audit plans. We did not make an independent review oT-iNiVyr's ob1igations and expenditures. ANTIDEFICIENCY ACT VIOLATIONS REPORTED BY THE NAVY The Naval Audit Service identified possible violations in the MPN appropriation in November and December 1971. As a result, the Chief of Naval Operations on April 17, 1972, di- rected the Navy Inspector General to investigate whether, in fact, violations had occurred. The Inspector General's investigation confirmed that vio- lations had occurred. In December 1972 the Navy submitted to the President of the United States and to the Congress viola- tion reports on the MPN appropriations for fiscal years 1969, 1971, and 1972. The Navy reported overobligations in the MPN appropriation of almost $110 million, as follows:

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