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127878 1 (1985-09-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobactnh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: SUMMARY OF GAO LEGAL POSITION 127878 GAO and Energy disagree over the interpretation of the statute authorizing the Residential Conservation Service Program. The National Energy Conservation Policy Act spe- cifically provides that the program announcement duties prescribed were to terminate on January 1, 1985, but it con- tains no termination date(s) for the other aspects of the RCS program. Energy asserts that the RCS Program expired shortly after January 1, 1985, the date at which the program announcement requirement expired. GAO believes that the statute is clear on its face and provides nn termination date for the PCS Program. Accord- ingly, the permanence of the Program is presumed under gen- eral principles. Moreover, GAO acknowledges that the RCS statute should be interpreted in light of other related statutes, particularly those complementary statutes contem- poraneously enacted, as Energy suggests. However, in this instance, none of the statutes relied on by Energy or their legislative histories require or strongly suggest the ter- mLna±tn E tne PCS program at any particular time. In addition, Energy has not consistently taken the position that the RCS Program expires shortly after January 1, 1985. Rather, over time, Energy's position has been contradictory or, at best, ambiguous.

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