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PSAD-80-41 1 (1980-04-30)

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The Honorable Jamie L. Whitten
Chairman, House Appropriations   )Oo
  Committee

The Honorable Edward P. Boland
Chairman, Subcommittee on HUD
  and Independent Agencies
House Appropriations Committee

The Honorable Herbert E. Harris II
Chairman, Subcommittee on
  Human Resources
House Post Office and Civil
  Service Committee


The Honorable Warren G. Magnuson
Chairman, Senate Appropriations
  Committee

The Honorable William Proxmire
Chairman, Subcommittee on HUD and
  Independent Agencies
Senate Appropriations Committee


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       Subject:   nsupported Year-!End Obligations Overstate
                  the Progress of Assisted Housing7(PS -80-41)

       We believe that a substantial portion of the year-end
  obligations reported by the Department of Housing and Urban
X-gDevelopment (HUD) since FY 1976 for a certain no-year appro-
  priation, have been invalid because they did not meet the
  statutory test of legal sufficiency. In a subsequent year,
  HUD deobligated many of the invalid obligations of prior
  years and reobligated the amounts involved. While we are
  unable to determine how much was deobligated from each year
  prior to FY 1979, agency officials indicated that they ex-
  pected several billion dollars in deobligations in the
  current fiscal year.

        In performing a review of year-end spending at the
  request of the Chairman, Subcommittee on Human Resources of
  the House Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, we




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COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES
         WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548


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APRIL 30, 1980

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