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B-198451 1 (1981-02-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabjym0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO !~5 United States General Accounting Office Office of Washington, DC 20548 General Counsel In Reply Refer to: B- 198451 4February 5, 1981 __J 1, ' Mr. John K. Scott Deputy Assistant Comptroller for Accounting and Finance Department of the Air Force Dear Mr. Scott: We agree to the proposals set forth in your letter of August 27, 1980, providing revised procedures under which your Department will submit questions concerning relief for disbursing officers under 31 U.S.C. § 95a. You state that upon completion of action by the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Financial Manage- ment), the case file will be forwarded to this Office for final decision. Please note that the Comptroller General in his letter of today to the heads of the military departments, B-198451 (copy enclosed), has determined that henceforth our considerati.on will be limited only to situations where there exists doubt either as to whether the shortage of funds is due to physical loss rather than illegal or improper payment or as to whether the accountable officer involved was a disbursing officer. Thus, no other cases need be forwarded to this Office for review. Upon reaching our conclusion on any doubtful cases submitted, we will send our decision along with the comi- plete original case file to the Air Force Accounting and Finance Center for final action. Additionally, you asked that we provide you a contact point. All requests for relief are handled in , r- .- . /

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