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B-130515 1 (1970-07-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabkrj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: RESTRCTED -Not to be released ou'tsooe - - Accounting Office except on the basis of specific approval by the Office of Legisative Lison, a record of which is kept Sby' the Eiistribution sectiag,%, P-.bhicatans Branch, OAS 7/ 7 COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON D C 20548 B-13 RELEASEDJU1097 JUL 10 1970 Dear Mr. Chairman We have reviewed certain activities of volunteers of the Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) assigned to the Northeast South Dakota Com- munity Action Program, Inc. (agency), a community action agency at Sisseton, South Dakota, funded by the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO). The re- view was undertaken pursuant to a Decembet 30, 1969, telephone request irom Mr. W. E. O'Brien of your Committee staff. Mr, O'Brien's request was initiated because of information received by Senator Karl Mundt that the volunteers assigned to the agency (I) were not productively employed, (2) were misusing Government-owned vehicles assigned to them, and (3) were a disruptive influence on the community. Our review covered those aspects of the volunteers' activities that had been called to our attention and did not include an evaluation of the efficiency with which the agency administered its programs or the extent to which the program objectives were being achieved. Our review 3f VISTA vol- unteers' activities covered the period from July 1968, when the first volun- teer was assigned to the agency, through February 1970, when our fieldwork was completed. We reviewed pertinent OEO and agency documents and held interviews with OEO and agency officials, volunteers assigned to the agency, local political leaders, local police, newspaper and business officials, and a number of area residents. The majority of our work was performed at the agency at Sisseton, how- ever, we also performed work at the OEO Denver, Colorado, Regional Office and obtained pertinent vehicle records from the General Services Administra- tion (GSA) regional office in Kansas City, Missouri, and the GSA motor pool in Bismarck, North Dakota. The agency was formed in 1966 to serve Day, Marshall, and Roberts Counties, an area of about 3,000 square miles in the northeast section of South Dakota. Within this area is the Sisseton-Wahpeton Indian Reservation, In August 1968 the agency reported to OEO that the total population for the three-county area was about 30,000. On the basis of agency information, we estimated that the total Indian population, on and off the reservation, was about 2,500. From the time of its first grant in April 1966 through February 1970, OEO provided the agency with funds totaling about $1.1 million for commu- nity action programs. In July 1968, OEO approved the agency's first VISTA project and assigned two volunteers to the agency to assist in planning

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