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B-166506 1 (1973-03-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabkik0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -Not to be released outs! Office except on the basis a by te Ofice of Legislatye Liaison, a record o whichh; ke by the Distribution Section, Publications Branchr OAS _kept COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES 20548 RELEASED B- 166506MA 8 1 3 The Honorable Edmund S. Muskie Chairman, Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution Committee on Public Works VUnited States Senate Dear Mr. Chairman: In accordance with your request of November 27, 1972, we have examined into (1) the delays incurred by Florida 9aii -rant funds from theEn~vronment Prot ,n Agency (EPA) for constructing waste treatment facilities and (2) EPA's method of obligating fiscal year 1972 construction grant funds. EPA allocated fiscal year 1972 construction grant funds to the States in accordance with the formula prescribed in the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended (33 U.SoC. 1151). As of November 1972, EPA had obligated about 50 percent of the construction grant funds appropriated for fiscal year 1972o At that time EPA had obligated only 11 percent of the Federal funds allocated to Florida. (Appropriations for construction grants are available until expended.) As of December 31, 1972, however, EPA had obligated all of the grant funds allocated to Florida and more than 99 percent of the total fiscal year 1972 construction grant funds. (See enc. III.) Most of Florida's grant funds were not obligated until December 1972 primarily because, until then, the grant applications submitted by the State to EPA did not contain all the data EPA required pursuant to Federal laws and regulations. Representatives of several other States told us that there was not an unreasonable delay in obligating funds. We found no indication that EPA withheld or delayed obligating appropriated funds as part of an overall effort to control the expend- iture of Federal funds. EPA obligated grant funds in accordance with its prescribed policies and procedures.

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