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B-198789 1 (1980-06-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabjtv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO 13 United States General Accounting Office Office of Washington, DC 20548 General Counsel In Reply -. ..efer to: B-198789 June 5, 1980 The Honorable Bob Bergland - .-. Secretary of Agriculture Dear Mr. Secretary: l:/1 .... This responds to a request from Dean K. Crowther, Director of the Office of Operations and Finance, Department of Agriculture, for the relief of Ms. Dorothy M. Sharp rom liability fort e loss of imprest funds7in the amount of $626.81. Ms. Sharp is an Imprest Cashier for-tte Forest Service at the Kootenai National Forest, headquartered in Libby, Montana. For the reasons that follow, relief is granted. The record reveals that the shortage in the imprest account resulted from a burglary at the Rexford Ranger Station in Eureka, Montana. The imprest account was housed in the Ranger Station Office and kept in a Remington Rand Citadel Safe-file-Premier. During the night of November 20, 1979, or early morning of November 21, someone broke into the office through its North door, pried open the top and right side cover of the safe and escaped with the $626.81 of imprest funds in the safe. The remainder of the imprest fund was accounted for by receipts. When Ms. Sharp discovered the burglary on the morning of November 21, the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Secret Service were immediately notified. The Lincoln County Sheriff's Office conducted the only official in- vestigation. On December 17, 1979, a suspect was arrested and con- fessed to the robbery. None of the cash was recovered, and no information implicating Ms. Sharp in connection with the theft was discovered. We have authority under 31 U.S.C. § 82a-1 (1976) to grant relief to accountable officers for the physical loss of funds upon our concurrence with the agency head or his delegate: (1) that such loss or deficiency occurred while such officer or agent was acting in the discharge of his official duties or that such loss or deficiency occurred by reason of the act or omission of a subordinate 010771

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