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HRD-84-89 1 (1984-09-27)

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                  UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
                          WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548

HUMAN RESOURCME                                  SEPTEMBER 27.1984
   DIVIICO

     B-213605


     The Honorable Margaret M. Heckler                    1I W

     The Secretary of Health and Human Services           125248

     Dear Madam Secretary:

          Subject: The Office of Human Development Services'
                    Coordinated Discretionary Program
                    (GAO/HRD-84-89)

         We have completed a limited survey of the Office of Human
    Development Services' (OHDS') Coordinated Discretionary Program
    (CDP). The survey was undertaken as a congressional request
    after questions were raised in the press regarding CDP's oper-
    ation. Concern was expressed about whether OHDS had the author-
    ity to pool funds appropriated for several individual programs--
    Head Start, Runaway and Homeless Youth, Older Americans, Native
    Americans, Child Abuse Prevention, and Child Welfare Services--
    for use in CDP and to what extent the combining of funds in-
    hibited determining from which program specific amounts of money
    were drawn. We also investigated allegations of possible impro-
    prieties regarding the use of Head Start funds for a specific
    grant and the OHDS Assistant Secretary's involvement in grants
    awarded to a former employer.

         In summary, we found that

         --OHDS' management of CDP did not inhibit determining from
           which program specific amounts of money were drawn;

         --OHDS' initial use of Head Start funds for the grant in
           question does not appear improper; and

         --the Assistant Secretary's actions in grants awarded to a
            former employer give the appearance of a lack of impar-
            tiality.


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