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GGD-82-91 1 (1982-07-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabmmm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 G011RAL GOVERNMENr DIVISION JULY 13,1982 B-208161 119085 The Honorable James Abdnor United States. Senate Dear Senator Abdnor: Subject: Summary of Recent GAO Reports on Managing Intergovernmental Assistance Programs (GAO/GGD-82-91) I am responding on behalf of the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) to your April 2, 1982, letter to Mr. Henry Eschwege, Director of our Community and Economic Development Division. You requested us to inventory shared Federal/State programs and asked other questions related to Federal/State relationships in administering intergovernmental assistance programs. In subse- quent meetings with your office, our staff provided an extensive inventory of all intergovernmental assistance programs appearing in GAO's Legislative, Authorization, Program and Budget Informa- tion System. We also discussed whether it is possible to iden- tify a particular strategy or mgdel of Federal oversight and supervision that seems to work best in securing effective State implementation of Federal objectives. On the basis of this meeting, I am providing copies of sev- eral reports on the Federal intergovernmental assistance system that hopefully will be useful to you. As our staff noted at the meeting, it is difficult to specify any one model of Federal/ State relations that could fit the various programs sponsored by the Federal Government; rather, different models probably should be applied depending on the goals and objectives desired by the.. Congress for each particular program. Nevertheless, work done by GAO, the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, and others has identified certain issues that should be con- sidered in the design of an intergovernmental program where States and localities are used to achieve Federal objectives. The basic message of these studies is that State involvement in administering Federal programs, although often necessary from political and fiscal standpoints, can produce friction and ten- sion due to basic differences in interests and perspectives be- tween Federal and State governments. This friction, however, can be ameliorated through better design of intergovernmental programs. (017710)

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