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RCED-83-95 1 (1983-03-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabmwu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE /40 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 March 29, 1983 RESOURCES. COMMUNITY, AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIVISION B-208038 120947 The Honorable Charles M. Butler III Chairman, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. Dear Mr. Chairman: Subject: Some Small Purchase Procurements at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Were Not Well Managed (GAO/RCED-83-95) Our review of small purchase procurements related to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC's) participation in the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System (TAPS) rate case7showed that unrecorded accounts receivables and payables had been outstanding since 1980 and that several deficiencies existed in FERC's small purchase procurement practices. During our review, the unrecorded accounts receivables were collected and procurement procedures were changed to correct some of the noted deficiencies. Further action needs to be taken, however, to --collect the interest accrued on the accounts receivables that had been outstanding, provided FERC can properly - document notice of debt to the involved parties; --appropriately justify unauthorized procurements made during the TAPS discovery process or take steps to recover the amount expended; and --settle the unpaid liability to the Business Archives and Record Storage Company (BARSCO). OBJECTIVES, SCOPE, AND METHODOLOGY We undertook the review as part of our basic legislative responsibility to examine Federal agency expenditures and in response to concerns expressed by the Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, House Appropriations Committee, about FERC expenditures in the TAPS case. Our objective was to assess the adequacy of the procurement and accounting procedures used by FERC in its effort to obtain cost documentation for the TAPS case. (308538)

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