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CED-78-20 1 (1978-01-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaawll0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNTDSTATES GENM.RAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE II)JIJii 1)111 i: WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 LM104606 Ammu~rrANO ECONOMIC (nOwa.oPMamT DIVISION %.C B-153449 JAN 6 bii The Honorable The Secretary of Commerce Dear Madam Secretary: We have reviewed expenditures charged by the Governor's Office of the State of Connecticut to grants made by the New England Regional Commission (NERCOM) from funds provided by the Secretary of Commerce. We initiated the review as a result of questions raised by the Auditors of Public Accounts of the State of Connecticut during their audits of fiscal years 1974 and 1975 grants to the Governor's office. Tho Connecticut Auditors questioned whether the State Manage- ment Grant (SMG) funds and fiscal year 1975 Energy Capability Grant funds had been used to further gr&nt objectives. We examined SMGs and related budgets for fiscal years 1974 through 1976, selected expenditures for fiscal years 1974 and 1975 as well as selected expenditures charged to the fiscal year 1975 Energy Capability Grant. We discussed the grants and the uses made of funds with representatives of NERCOM, the Governor's office, and a former Governor's rep- resentative (the State Alternate) to NERCOM. We also dis- cussed and examined selected working papers of the Connecticut Auditors of Public Accounts and a firm of certified public accountants NERCOM hired to make a limiter' audit of the fis- cal years 1974 and 1975 SMGs and the fiscal year 1975 Energy Capability Grant. SMGs were made to improve the Governor's office capa- bilities to plan and manage State economic development efforts. However, the grant funds were used for general expenses of the Governor's office, and State records do not show that the expenses related to grant purposes. In addi- tion, the State program plans that NERCOM accepted were very general and did not show how the planned projects related to the grant purposes. The State budgets also did not detail how the funds were to be used. CED-78-20 (990711)

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