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GAO-02-721R 1 (2002-06-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaalzm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: £ Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 June 5, 2002 The Honorable Harold Rogers Chairman The Honorable Martin Olav Sabo Ranking Minority Member Subcommittee on Transportation and Related Agencies Committee on Appropriations House of Representatives Subject: Highway Projects: Extent of Unobligated Balances for Demonstration Projects as of March 31, 2002 Congress has provided funding for numerous highway demonstration projects in legislation authorizing surface transportation programs as well as in annual appropriations acts for the Department of Transportation (DOT). In some cases, the projects are identified in the legislation itself. In others, they are identified in committee reports accompanying the legislation. These projects are all designated for specific locations within states and for specific purposes, and funds made available for them generally remain available until expended. In order to identify funds that could be rescinded, you asked us to identify highway demonstration projects with unobligated balances that are no longer needed, and the amount of these balances. Results As of March 31, 2002, there were 30 highway demonstration projects with unobligated balances that were no longer needed by the states.' These projects accounted for about $5.6 million in unobligated funds. These funds were provided in authorization or appropriations acts enacted from 1978 through 1994. Table 1 in the enclosure specifies the budget authority made available and the obligated and unobligated amounts for each of the projects with unobligated balances as of March 31, 2002; lists the statute(s) and, where appropriate, committee report(s) identifying the projects, beginning with the most recent, and describes briefly the location and nature of the projects. We also found that 8 of the 30 projects have very small unobligated balances of less that $1.50 each, and we have provided that information to your staff. 'We identified another set of demonstration projects with unobligated balances in 2001. See Highway Projects: Extent of Unobligated Balances for Demonstration Projects (GAO-01-985R, Aug. 17, 2001.) GAO-02-721R Highway Projects

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