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B-199567 1 (1980-07-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabjee0001 and id is 1 raw text is: fi -. ?,~ st-s 4' 'St V. I A-> 1~ e[ tel OMPTROLLER GEwnAL. OF TWEUITED STATES3 -I ,,,WASHINQTOlll 3 C. 2QS44 B- 199567 July 24, 1980 The honorable-Ronald Il. Mottl Chairman, Subcommittee on Special Investigations Committee on Veterans Affairs House of Representatives P' : , 41$ ie.: .:4 r, rv-4 #I Dear Mr. Chairman: You requested our views as Office of Management and Budget trator of Veterans Affairs to s Administration (VA) contracts. N'ovemlber 20, 1979, and December and the 0MtB Associate Director and Labor, respectively, to the such action. to the legal authority of the (OMB) to direct the Adminis- top work under certain Veterans At issue are letters dated 26, 1979, from the OMB Director for Human Resources, Veterans, VA Administrator directing In a written response for the record of a hearing of your Subcommittee held May 1, 1980, the Director of OB's Office of Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP) asserted such legal authority. The OFPP Director's position is based on (1) the authority pro- vided OIB by 31 U.S.C. 16 to prepare the budget, which includes the authority to revise, reduce or increase agency appropriation :requests; and (2) a Presidential nlenorandum dated May 3, 1979, directing OMB to oversee governme~t-wide efforts to combat fraud, waste and mismanagement in 1program operations. You question whether this action Intrusion on the autonomy of the Admin. of the authority peovided by 38 U. S.C. mihistrator of VA, which includes the necessary supplies and services. by MB is an unwarranted istrator of VA, in view 210 and 213 to the Ad- authority to conL:ract for The statute upon which the OFPP Direct6trtelies, 31 U.S.C. 16, provides in part as follows: .1, There is in the Executive Office of the President an Office of Manager.ent and Budget * * * The Office, under such rules and regulations as the President may prescribe, shall prepare the Budget, and any proposed supplemental or deficiency appropriations, and to this end shall have authority to assen- ble, correlate, revise, reduce, or increase the requests for appropriations of the sev- eral departments or establishments. (.4*4-. ~ Si' 'K', e 13(

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