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B-139524 1 (1959-06-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadaih0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON 25 B-139524 June 1, 1959 Dear Mr. Secretarys On April 30, 1959, the Under Secretary of Labor presented for our decision a question arising from certain provisions of the Departments of Labor, and Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriation Act, 1959, and the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1959. The pertinent provision of the Departments of Labor, and Health, Education, and elfare Appropriation Act, 1959, approved August 1, 1958, 72 Stat. 4$? (Public Law 85-580), appearing under the heading Grants to States for Unemplnrent Compensation and Employment Service Administrationsn 72 Stat. W, is as fo-lows For grants in accardance with the provisions of the Act of June 6, 1933, as amended (29 U. S. C. 49-49n), for carrying into effect aection 602 of the Servicements Readjustment Act of 1944, for grants to the States as authorized in title III of the Social Security Act, as amended (42 U. S. C. 501-503) * ** and for the acquisi- tion of a building through such arrangements as may bee required to provide quarters for such offices and facilities in the District of Columbia and for the pistrict of Columbia Unemplyment Compensation Board, hubject to the same conditions with reapect to the use of these funds for such purposes as are applicable to the procuremont of buildings for other State employ- ment security agencies * * $305,000,000 * * *.n The above-quoted provision clearly authorizes the acquisition of a building to provide quqrters for the United States Employment Service for the District of Columbia, a Federal agency, and the District of Columbia Unemployment Compensation Board, a District of Columbia agency, from the funds appropriated thereby in the same manner that buildings have been and are being acquired by various States from Federal appropriated funds under the same program. The history of the act discloses that the Congress was apprised 6f the need for a build- ing to house the cited agencies and that it was desired to acquire such building in the same manner that buildings for the same purposes are being acquired by various States under the program. Also, the Congrese was advised that the States acquire buildings under the protram by amortizing the costs over a period of years. The legisla- tive history clearly shows that the Congress approved the request and included, the acquisition provision in the act for the purpose of authorizing the acquisition of a building for the purposes stated in

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