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B-198103 1 (1981-04-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabjcq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO/71 C United States General Accounting Office - Office of Washington, DC 20548 !e r-7// 1, n8pl. B-198103 Z 1-,fX7ce er to The Honorable John Paul Hammerschmidt April 27 1981 Ranking Minority Member Committee on Veterans Affairs House of Representatives Dear Mr. Hammerschmidt: DI pot Immko Together with Senator Cranston and lRepresentatiyeMoagomery you havcrequested our opinion as to whether e tor of the Office of U AM Management and Budget is currently in compliance wit53section 5010(a)(4) of Title 38 of the United States Code. Thattsection requires the Director to provide authority and funds to the Veterans Administration to employ the number of personnel for which the Congress has appropriated funds under the appropriations medical care, medical and prosthetic research, and medical administration and miscellaneous operating expenses.' In your letter you indicate that the current hiring ceilings for the Veterans Administration are below those for which the Congress has appropriated funds in the specified accounts. On April 13, 1981,(we sent a rescission and impoundment report to the Congress pursuant to the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (OGC-81-7, B-200685). EZn that report we discussed the Administration's proposed deferrals D81-95, D81-96, and D81-97,Cwhich deal with the three accounts in questions The report concludes with respect to these accounts on pages 9 and 10: 'In the first two cases, deferrals D81-95 and D81-96 would reduce the funded personnel levels'1,280 and 49 elow the mandated levels established by Congress. The level resulting from deferral D81-97 still would be above the mandated level of 832-**. Consequently, we believe that(deferrals D81-95 and D81-96 are unauth- orized to the extent they result in a reduction in the personnel levels below those mandated by Congress. In the case of D81-95, the entire reduction is unauthorized, and in the case of D81-96, the reduction of 49 positions of the 74 proposed by the President is unauthorazed. No similar problems exists with regard to D81-97.J In the report, we recommended that the Congress adopt an impoundment resolution disapproving deferrals D81-95 and D81-96. Ire 5Z e_ e__S

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