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UNITED .... vs CTH,- FFIC /
. W ,ASHiNGTON, r.c. .
Dr-'IcE OF GENRAL C0,14SEL
B-210017 June 8, 1983
Mr. Wallace Wasserstein
Chief Disbursing Officer
Depart-rent of Treasury
Dear Mr. WNasserstein:
Mr. Dale W. Sopper, Assistant Secretary for Management and Budget,
Departmle nt of Health and llurn Services, has requested that Class B
Cashier Romona Poitra be relieved from 'Liability for a $589 imprest fund
loss. For the reasons that follow, relief is granted.
The record on which the determination to deny relief was made indi-
cates that Ms. Poitra was the agency cashier at the Puget Sounl Service
Unit, Portland Area Indian Health Servrice. The loss apparently occurred
soretin n between the close of business on March 27, 1980, and the next
business day on March 28, 1980. The imprest fund was kept in a cash box
stored inside a safe.
Ms. Poitra was responsible for an imprest fund of $1,000. On the
afternon of March 27, 1980, she reconciled the cash and receipts she had
in her safe in order to prepare a replenislment voucher. Afjter comr.et-
ing the reconciliation she placed the cash box back in her safe. This
was witnessed by an alternate cashier. On the mrning of !arch 28, 1980,
she found the handle of the safe slightly pushed down. When the safe was
opened she found that $589 was missing. investigations by the Seattle
offices of the U.S. Secret Service and the Federal Eureau of Investiga-
tion found no deficiencies or negligence in the handling of the iworest
fund. An internal investigation by a security officer of the UIS.P.H.S.
Hospital, Seattle and the District Sanitarian assigned to the Puget Sound
Service Unit revealed that the security of the building appeared to be
otnerwise undisturbed and that the handling of the cash was in compliance
with established procedures.
The General Accounting Office is authorized by 31 U.S.C. § 3527(a)
(fonierly 31 U.S.C. S 82a-]) to relieve an accountable officer from lia-
bility for a physical loss or deficiency if GAO concurs with the
administrative determinations that the loss occurred while the account-
able officer was acting in the discharge of official duties and that the
loss occurred without fault or negligence on the part of the accountable
officer.
The record shows that the nyoney disappeared while under the control
of Ms. Poitra. There is no explanat ion as to what happened to the](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobachgf0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)