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AIMD-00-285R 1 (2000-08-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaalqj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Accountability I Integrty * Reliability United States General Accounting Office Accounting and Information Washington, DC 20548 Management Division B-285130 August 14, 2000 The Honorable Ben Nighthorse Campbell Chairman Committee on Indian Affairs United States Senate Subject: Bureau of Indian Affairs: Use of Highway Trust Fund Resources Dear Mr. Chairman: This letter summarizes the information we provided during a July 18, 2000, briefing to your Committee's staff. In your April 4, 2000, letter to the Comptroller General you had asked us to analyze the Bureau of Indian Affairs' (BIA) responses to Committee inquiries regarding BIA's use of federal Highway Trust Fund (HTF) money for Indian reservation roads. In your letter, you asked us to determine * what percentage of fiscal years 1999 and 1998 HTF contract authority available to BIA was obligated for (1) management costs directly related to specific projects within a program for construction, repair, and improvement of roads and (2) program management and oversight costs not directly related to specific projects; * whether BIA spent more than 6 percent of the contract authority allocated to its Midwest and Western Regional Offices' on non-project-related program management costs for those offices; * whether the annual 6 percent statutory limitation on the use of HTF contract authority for road program management costs applies only to non-project-related management costs; and * whether the project-related costs that BIA bears for individual tribes should be paid from HTF contract authority or from BIA's annual appropriations for managing Indian programs or construction. The enclosed briefing slides highlight the results of our work and the information we provided during the briefing. 'In September 1999, BIA changed its field office structure. The Minneapolis Area Office became the Midwest Regional Office and the Phoenix Area Office became the Western Regional Office. GAO/AIMD-00-285R BIA's Use of Highway Trust Fund Resources

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