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RCED-84-52 1 (1984-04-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabnjd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20Ii I IIII I !1 II LM124143 RESOURCES, COMMUNITY. AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIVISION April 11, 1984 B-213147 RELEASED The Honorable Jim Sasser United States Senate Dear Senator Sasser: Subject: Information on the Department of Energy's Budgets for Enforcing Its Petroleum Allocation and Pricing Regulations and Its Process for Distributing Oil Company Overcharge Refunds (GAO/RCED-84-52) This letter responds to your February 9, 1983, request for us to review the Economic Regulatory Administration's (ERA's) budget for enforcing the Department of Energy's (DOE's) petroleum allocation and pricing regulations established pursuant to the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act of 1973. As agreed with your office, we are also including information on the Office of Hearings and Appeals' (OHA's) fiscal years 1981-84 budgets and DOE's process for resolving the cases involving funds collected from oil companies in settling alleged violations of DOE's petroleum allocation and pricing regulations. In summary, we found that: --ERA has consistently set overly optimistic objectives for its compliance program that resulted in proposed budgets being understated. --OHA's fiscal year 1984 workload is greater than anticipated in its budget submission because of ERA's unanticipated referral of 453 oil companies' overcharge refund cases in October 1983 to OHA. --DOE has made slow progress in resolving the cases involving funds collected from oil companies because of higher prior- ity work, the complexity of these oil companies' overcharge refund cases, and ERA's late referral of 453 of these cases. (308552)

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