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B-33911,B-62187 1 (1948-07-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadafu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON B-33911 8-62187 July 15, 1948. The Honorable, The Secretary of Agriculture. 4y dear Mr. Secretary:' I have your letter of July 6, 1948, as follows: *In your decision 8-33911 of ?Aay 5, 1943, you held that the appropriations of the Forest Service aere not available for the removal of inductive interference to Forest Service telephone lines occasioned by the installation of permitted power lines crossing national forest land. (See also decision 8-62187 dated December 3, 1946.) 3ecause of complications resulting from this decision relating to the installations of pwr lines by organizations financed by loans from the Rural Electrification Administration, this Department concluded that it would be desirable to have Congressiotal authority to use funds appropriated to the Forest Service for the removal of .inductive interference caused by such power lines, as a means of facilitating another activity of the Departmnt. With this purpose in view, the matter was presented to the sub-committee of the Senate Committee on Appropriations as shown on pages 938-941 of the bearings before that subcommittee on H.R. 5883, tie Agricultural Appropriation Bill for the F.T 1949. As a result of this presentation, the Senate Appropriations Coimittee, in its report on the above measure iade the following statemaents: 'It is the intent of the committee that the Forest Service ay use a portion of the funds appropriated to it to reduce inductive intrference on its telephone lines caused by REA electric lines.' No dissent to this view as adopted by the Zenate was manifest so that it is presumed that the Congress has in effect authorized the use of Forest Service funds for the purpose indicated. It will

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