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RCED-92-207R 1 (1992-05-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackby0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 14 fwI4 United States GAO General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division B-248720 May 21,1992 The Honorable Alfonse M. D'Amato 146993 United States Senate Dear Senator D'Amato: This letter is in reply to your March 23, 1992, letter requesting us to investigate certain U.S. Department of AgricUlture (USDA) procurement practices regarding the purchase of food commodities for use in domestic and foreign food assistance programs. Specifically, you asked that we determine the extent to which USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service, Foreign Agricultural Service, and Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service may be purchasing foreign food commodities for use in anti-hunger programs. We met with Mr. Michael Petralia of your office on April 24, 1992, to discuss your request and the results of work done by USDA's Office of Inspector General (OIG) referred to in your letter. We specifically discussed the OIG's August 19, 1991, report on these three agencies' procurement practices. We also made reference to the OIG's April 7, 1992, testimony on USDA's procurement practices, and other investigations before the Trade Subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee. We agreed to summarize the key points of our discussion and provide the information in a letter to you. I would like to point out, however, that the following comments are based only on our review of the OIG report. We did not discuss the report with the OIG nor did we review its audit work. -- In its review the OIG focused on (1) compliance by the the three agencies with their own requirements that purchased commodities be of domestic origin and (2) the compliance methods the agencies used to assure themselves that their domestic origin requirements were being met. GAO/RCED-92-207R, USDA Buy American Practices

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