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B-302745 1 (2004-07-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacxlr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AGAO Accountability * Integrity - Reliability United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 B-302745 July 19, 2004 Ms. Bonnie M. McElmurry Budget and Finance Officer U.S. Department of Agriculture 3301 C Street, Suite 300 Anchorage, AK 99503-3998 Subject: Refreshments for Kid's Fishing Day Dear Ms. McElmurry: This responds to your letter of March 11, 2004, requesting a decision under 31 U.S.C. § 3529 regarding the use of appropriated funds to purchase refreshments for nongovernment participants at Kid's Fishing Day. We understand that Kid's Fishing Day is an annual event held in various national forests across the United States, which is intended to teach children how to fish, thereby raising their awareness of and appreciation for the natural environment. Letter from Bonnie M. McElmurry to GAO General Counsel, Mar. 11, 2004. Specifically, you asked whether Kid's Fishing Day qualifies as a cultural awareness program and, if so, whether you can certify the use of Forest Service appropriations to provide hot dogs and lemonade to participants. On May 21, 2004, you e-mailed Neill Martin-Rolsky, a senior attorney on my staff, stating that you were withdrawing your request for a decision based upon advice of Agriculture Department counsel. In a May 28, 2004, telephone conversation with my staff, Ken Cohen, the Department's Assistant General Counsel, explained that, in the Department's view, it would be problematic to declare Kid's Fishing Day a cultural awareness program.' Mr. Cohen said that he advised Chugach National Forest to cancel the event because his office, at that time, was not prepared to justify the event under other legal authority that may be available to the Forest Service. 'In addition to Mr. Cohen, participants in the conference call were Tom Armstrong, Assistant General Counsel for Appropriations Law, GAO, and Benny Young, Deputy Assistant General Counsel, Agriculture.

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