About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline

B-173761 1 (1977-01-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobachkz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 



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

  . FFICEOF GENERAL COUNSEL

     B-173761


     Daniel 1. organ, rSt.
     Wateer,        on & Buin.
     32 Journal Square
     Je*rseY City, Nm Jersey 07306

     Dear ft. florgant

          This replies to your letter of January 10, 1977, requesting a copy
 of the GAO draft report .on bank regulitory agencies, and copies of the
     agreet. entered Into between, M       the Federal Rexfteloarda Comp-
     troller of the Currencyand P.D.lCo, respectivaly.

          The draft report you request has been prepared at congresasional
     request, and when completed and in ftual form, will be subvitted as a
     report of the Coptroller Caera1gio the Congress,. In its present form,
     the draft report does not constitate the final position of the AO or of
     the Comptrollr. Geral; rather, it is in the form of recowrmndations to
     him which he will not act upon t*til Coemnts have been received from
     tjh. three concerned Federal bank supervisory agencies. -The draft report,
     therefore, forms part of the deliberative process of this Agency, and
     is' expt from release under 4 C...o R 81.6(a)(5),

          We have considered the fact raised in telephone discussions with
     Mr. Evers of my staff that the draf t report is being -cited In the press.
     We have neither released nor authorized release of the draft report out-
     side of the CAO and the thr e concerned agencies. Our review was made
     under spe ifLe agreements reached with each of the three agencies grant-
     ins us access to their records and astablishing groundrulea for the
     reporting process. Relesse of the report in draft prior to veceipt and
     evaluation of the agenciLes' comments vould be inconsistint with these


  Sleview of the draft report by each of the three agencies is parti-
     cularly critical in this Instance, for we nust rely on then to assure
     that the report neither violates the terms of the agreements nor the
     provisions of 18 U.S.C  $194  (1970).



I






  ..,-,.   -....-.   ;..... . . . . . .... .=. : ... .-. .. .,.,

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Contact us for annual subscription options:

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

profiles profiles most