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HRD-92-143R 1 (1992-08-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackcz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Unted Stae GAO General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20648 Human Resource. Division B-2500611I1I II August 28, 1992 147466 The Honorable John Conyers, Jr. Chairman, Committee on Government Operations House of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: This letter responds to the Committee's February 11, 1992, request to identify previous GAO or Treasury reported examples of alleged waste, fraud, or abuse in the General Revenue Sharing (GRS) program. The Committee requested that, for each example, we describe, among other matters, the (1) nature of the incident, (2) amount of funds the local government received under the State and Local Fiscal Assistance Act of 1972 (P.L. 92-512), as amended, in the year of the allegation, and (3) results of any investigation. To provide a perspective for assessing each allegation, we also summarize GRS goals and the program's design and accountability provisions. You indicated that the requested information could help the Committee in its deliberations on proposed general fiscal assistance legislation--Local Partnership Act of 1992 (H.R. 5798). Our review of past GAO reports identified three allegations of improper GRS expenditures spanning the period from 1972 to 1986. None of these allegations resulted in a finding of fraud or other impropriety. During the 14-year history of GRS, Treasury officials and auditors did not publish a readily accessible description of allegations the Department received, thus prohibiting a retrospective review of claims that may have alleged wasteful or fraudulent expenditure of federal funds. GRS funds provided an integral resource subject to the same internal controls that guided state and local allocation and expenditure decisions, making federal funds no more or less susceptible to waste, fraud, or abuse than state and local funds. For each of the allegations we reviewed, we found that state and local governments had exercised discretionary authority and spent GRS funds to support their priorities in accordance with existing laws and regulations. GAO/HRD-92-143R

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