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RCED-95-166R 1 (1995-05-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackvd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division ii ltIl ii iii l iii- B-261218 154322 May 4, 1995 The Honorable Phil Gramm Chairman, Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Committee on Appropriations United States Senate The Honorable Robert S. Walker Chairman, Committee on Science House of Representatives You asked us to provide information on the status of unobligated funds held by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for two of its major programs--the Advanced Technology Program (ATP) and the Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) program. Begun in 1990, ATP makes competitive awards on a cost-sharing basis to industry for research and development (R&D) projects considered to have significant potential for improving the competitiveness of U.S. industry and stimulating economic growth. MEP, which was started in 1989, makes technology assistance available to U.S. manufacturers through nonprofit Manufacturing Extension Centers and through some State Technology Extension Centers. The funds for both programs are no-year funds-- that is, there is no restriction on the time by which the funds must be obligated. However, you specifically asked whether NIST will be able to obligate all of the available funds for these two programs by the end of fiscal year 1995. In summary, NIST estimates that ATP will award $421 million through a series of competitions during fiscal year 1995. It is unclear whether NIST will be able to make all of the planned awards and obligate all of the funds by the end of this fiscal year, given its increased workload and the time it has taken to make awards in prior years. But even if it were able to complete these activities in fiscal year 1995, some of the award money would not be available for disbursement until fiscal year GAO/RCED-95-166R, NIST's Unobligated Funds

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