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CED-79-31 1 (1979-01-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaaykv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE _WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 COMMUNI'f AND V=IOMIC JANUARY 4, 1979 DE LOPMEI['T DIVIMON q-1 42011 he Honorable Bob Berciland The Secretary of Agriculture 108276 Dear Mr. Secretary: Sections 101 and 104 of the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 (91 Stat. 917-919) limit the total amount of direct payments a person may receive under the wheat, feed grains, and upland cotton programs to $20,000 for 1977 crops, $40,000 for 1978 crops, and $45,000 for 1979 crops. Rice program payments are limited to $52,250 for 1978 crops and S50,000 for 1979 crops. For each of the 1980 ane 1981 crops, total direct payments under all four programs are not to exceed $50,000. We reviewed the administration of the payment limi- tation program to determine if Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS) procedures and controls were adecruate to insure compliance with the limitation. In an earlier report, Payment Limitation Under 1971 Cotton, Wheat, and Feed Grain Programs Had Limited Effect on Reducing Expenditures (B-142011, Apr. 12, 1972), we had recommended improvements in these procedures and controls. We made our review at ASCS headcuarters; at ASCS's Management Field Office (MFO) in Kansas City, Missouri; and at the ASCS State office and three county Agricultural Stabili- zation and Conservation offices in Oklahoma. (In terms of total deficiency payments in crop year 1977, Oklahoma ranked fifth in the Nation.) We interviewed aqency officials and reviewed State, county, and headquarters payment limitation records and procedures. Although we oLtained some information on other States at ASCS headquarters, we limited our fieldwork to Oklahoma because the Department's Office of Inspector General was reviewinc payment limitation administration in Colorado, Kansas, Montana, and Nebraska. Steps are needed to strengthen county office administration of the payment limitation because the county offices we reviewed were --not systematically obtainino all the infornatio. needed to determine the makeup of entities receiving deficiency payments, 0030,7 CE!-79-3 00307? (0223 ) A; ,: ' . .

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