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092426 1 (1972-02-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacwih0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ~' UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE C.< WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 CIVIL DIVISION FEB 23 1972 Dear Mr. Watson: The General Accounting Office recently completed a review of certain aspects of the Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) administration of programs under which it advanced funds to public agencies for public works planning (PWP). Our review showed that HUD should improve its efforts to ensure that advances are repaid to the Federal Government in cases where public agencies undertook construction of public works for which plans were prepared with Federal advances. As you know, funds which were advanced to public agencies under the PWP programs are to be repaid in full if the public agencies undertake construction of the planned public works. Also, if a pub- lic agency uses only a portion of the plans, then it shall repay to HUD a proportionate amount of the planning advance which HUD and the public agency determine to be equitable. HUD records showed that about $73 million in PWP funds were out- standing as of December 31, 1971, and, of this amount, about $1.6 million was considered by HUD to be due to the Federal Government because public agencies undertook construction of the planned public works projects. Under PWP programs, HUD's administrative responsibilities include (1) monitoring the construction status of each PWP project for which an advance is outstanding, (2) determining the amount public agencies are to repay to HUD, and (3) initiating appropriate collection or write-off procedures, including referring accounts to the Depart- ment of Justice for further collection efforts or legal action. During our review, we obtained from the HUD central office and from several HUD regional offices financial data on a total of 61 advances representing 59 PWP projects. These advances represented HUD accounts receivable of about $1 million and, as of December 31, 1971,.amounted to about two thirds of the $1.6 million in accounts receivable for PWP advances. We noted that the amounts to be repaid for 5 of these 59 proj- ects were less than 60 days old. Also, we found that special repay- ment agreements between HUD and the public agencies had been arranged for advances for 7 projects and that 3 of the 59 projects were refer- red to the Department of Justice for collection.- For the remaining

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