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B-148898 1 (1973-06-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabkjp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: B-148898 COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WAININGT, .C. 20ma RELEASED The Honorable John 0. Dingell Chairman, Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation and the Environment Connittee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries House of Representatives L089228 Dear Mr. Chairman: As requested in your letter of March 30, 1973, we bave reviewed certain aspects of the MIgatora Brd Consey .t [n ui.as administered by the Department of the Interior; specifically, obligation ceilings placed on the fund for fiscal years 1973 and 1974 by the Office of Management and Budget (014B), and the manner in which the U.S. Postal Service sells Federal migratory bird hunting stamps (duck stamps) and deposits the receipts into the fund. The Migratory Bird Conservation Fund is repjenished by pqraanently ps th~e~.s~3ofe duck stamps under the Migratory Bird Huntivg Stamp Act (16 U.S.C. 718) and by CUnds appropriated by the Congress under the so-called Accelerated Wetlands Acquisition Act (16 U.S.C. 715k-3 through 715k-5). The Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act requires that all persons 16 years old or older hunting migratory waterfowl carry an unexpired Federal duck stamp. A Department of the Interior official advised us that a substantial number of people also purchase these duck stamps as a means of supporting the purposes of the Migratory Bird Conserva- tion Fund. Receipts from the sale of the stamps are deposited in the fund and are usdotp._Tcquire1and - and theoj uction of migratory waterfowl. Since fiscal year 1963, appropriations to the- ft'1-n$8T4- mi llion have been made under the Accelerated letlands Acquisition Act. This act, as amended, author- ized a total of $105 million to be appropriated to the fund through fiscal year 1976. It also provides that starting in fiscal year 1977, 75 percent of the receipts from the §ale of duck stamps must be used to repay these appropriations. ~~ 2S ______ fC FSED RESTRICTED 10 be rele!stai eaitsid , Me rnj-, Acc V?0 Office ep U-onj. b~is o -cific a.- roval by e ceofLii~~ ~rco - I whic'. is jernt by the 0itiu znh A

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