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B-262234 1 (1995-12-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobablmk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 B-262234 December 21, 1995 The Honorable Bud Shuster Chairman, Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure House of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: This is in response to your letter of July 12, 1995, concerning the activities of Mr. Edward Perry, an employee of the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), Department of Interior (DOI). On April 5, 1995, he participated in an Altoona, Pennsylvania, press conference sponsored by a private environmental group, Clean Water Action, to criticize pending legislation amending the Clean Water Act. Section 303 of the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1995, Pub. L. No. 103-332, 108 Stat. 2499, 2536 (1994), contains the following restriction: No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be available for any activity or the publication or distribution of literature that in any way tends to promote public support or opposition to any legislative proposal on which congressional action is not complete. You ask whether the FWS employee's participation in the press conference violated section 303 of the Interior Appropriations Act For the reasons explained below, we conclude that the employee's conduct constituted a violation. Backaound On April 4, 1995, Ms. Paula Ford, a member of the Juniata Valley Audubon Society, received a fax from Clean Water Action, a private environmental group. The document' announced an April 5, 1995, press conference in Altoona, Pennsylvania, 'The document, a press advisory reads in part, as follows: Altoona Residents to Join Pennsylvania Environmental Groups in Press Conference to Criticize Bud Shuster's 'Dirty Water' Bill 11121221 b5 Q

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