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B-307382 1 (2006-09-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaczpc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 B-307382 September 5, 2006 The Honorable Harold Rogers, Chairman Subcommittee on Homeland Security Committee on Appropriations House of Representatives The Honorable Martin Sabo, Ranking Member Subcommittee on Homeland Security Committee on Appropriations House of Representatives Subject: Department ofHomeland Security-Use ofManagement Directorate Appropriations to Pay Costs of Component Agencies This responds to your letter of February 1, 2006, in which you requested our legal opinion regarding the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) use of its Management Directorate appropriations to pay for certain costs of several DHS component agencies. In considering a reprogramming request submitted by DHS, the Committee on Appropriations learned that in fiscal year 2005 the department had charged the costs of mail operations, employee transit benefit subsidies, parking, and executive sedan services for various DHS component agencies' to the department's Management Directorate appropriations, rather than charging those costs to specific appropriations which those components receive directly for management and administration expenses. As we explain below, either DHS's Management Directorate appropriations or the various management and administration appropriations for the subcomponents may be reasonably construed as available to pay the costs of administrative activities 1 Those component agencies were the Office of State and Local Government Coordination and Preparation (SLGCP); the Office of the Under Secretary for Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection (JAIP); and Office of the Under Secretary for Science and Technology (S&T). Under recent reorganizations, SLGCP and IAIP were abolished. IAIP's functions were divided into two new components- Analysis and Operations and the Preparedness Directorate. See H.R. Conf. Rep. No. 109-241, at 30 (2005) (discussing recent DHS reorganization under the agency's Second Stage Review).

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