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HEHS-94-127R 1 (1994-03-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackne0001 and id is 1 raw text is: United State. General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 /-5/1q& Human Resources Division B-242001 March 29, 1994 The Honorable John D. Rockefeller IV Chairman The Honorable Frank H. Murkowski Ranking Minority Member Committee on Veterans' Affairs United States Senate The Honorable G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery Chairman The Honorable Bob Stump Ranking Minority Member Committee on Veterans' Affairs House of Representatives On February 12, 1994, the President signed Public Law 103-211, which included an emergency supplemental fiscal year 1994 appropriation of $21 million for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for medical care. This was intended to pay for emergency medical expenses resulting from the January 1994 earthquake in Southern California. As you know, 38 U.S.C. 8110(a)(4) requires that we report on several actions the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is required to take in response to each law making appropriations to VA. Specifically, the OMB Director must authorize VA to employ not less than the number of employees for which funds were appropriated in its medical care, medical and prosthetic research, and medical administration and miscellaneous operating expenses accounts; provide VA with funds appropriated for these employees; and certify these actions to the Comptroller General and the Senate and House Committees on Veterans' Affairs not later than 30 days after the President signed the appropriation law. The OMB Director provided a written certification on March 3, 1994, that addressed the above appropriation act. On the basis of discussions with VA and OMB officials, and a review of documentation supporting that OMB (1) apportioned the VA Appropriations GAO/HEHS-94-127R

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