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B-221412 1 (1986-02-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabkro0001 and id is 1 raw text is: r +COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON C. February 12, 1986 B-221412 The Honorable Edward P. Boland Chairman, Subcommittee on HUD-Independent Agencies Committee on Appropriations House of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: The Administrator of Veterans Affairs is required by law to report to the Appropriations Committees and to us any approved major construction project in which obligations are not incurred within specified time limits. In his December 18, 1985 letter to you, Mr. Baine of our Human Resources Division advised that the report by the Veterans Administration (VA) of delays in the award of certain contracts was accurate and that we were in the process of reviewing, as also expressly required by law, the impoundment implications of those delays. We have now completed that review and we find that the delays in obligating funds by VA do not constitute impoundments. The appropriation act for fiscal year 1984 provided $345,692,000 to VA for major construction projects, to remain available until expended. Pub. L. No. 98-45, 97 Stat. 219, 233 (1983). The Act provided that the funds appropriated for each approved project be obligated (1) by the awarding of a working drawings contract by September 30, 1984, and (2) by the award- ing of a construction contract by September 30, 1985. The Act directed the Administrator of Veterans Affairs to report to the Comptroller General and the Committees on Appropriations those projects for which he was unable to obligate funds within the established time limitations. The fiscal year 1985 appropriation act appropriated $568,194,000 to VA for major construction projects, also to remain available until expended. Pub. L. No. 98-371, 98 Stat. 1213, 1232 (1984). Similar to the 1984 Act, the 1985 Act required VA to obligate the funds for each approved project (1) by awarding the working drawings contracts by September 30, 1985, and (2) by awarding construction contracts 2

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