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B-185591 1 (1976-05-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadbzy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ~~iSIONOF THE UNITED STATES ~ WASHINGTON, 0. C. 2054-8 CNA 5 1971 DATE: AY b17 FILE: ~L59 MATTE OF: Subscript~vn to porliodital. [01(3 EST: Appropriated funds miay be used to pnsrcawe subscription, to periodical if subscriptiou, La Justified as a 'ecO$5527T' azoy ezpezise, Subsc~~ption n~eed not be ccnsidored indi3-_ ponsable. 21 CUip. G&en. 339 (1941k is no longer applicable. Thia 4ecision responds3 to a request by Kan. Ame C. Hansen, an authoi4ed Certifying Officer of the Mining LEnforcqwnt and safety fiaiistration (MgSA), DVeprtment of the Interior, caetrning tle propriety of payewt of $11.00 for mne year's subsexiption to tho Federal &pVloyees News Digest, which was requisitioaed by a m2aA emiployee. Citing our deciaioia in~ 21 Cocp. Cen. 339A/(1941)9. the Certifying officr requests otr 4etermnLnation., whether: I***~t is appropriate to pay for this periodical or like newspapers or peri~odical~s Todch do not appear to be ludispewsable for the accomplislu~ent of the mission of the Uiaing Bnforcent and Saty Amnistration. In the case citedp we belid that purchase of certain publications twas appropriate only wbare it wias adinistraitively determiaed that their acquisition was itdipensable-az distiguished fromn mteely daairbile or helpful-- to the accomplisbicmet of the purposes' for wbich a specific appropriation was ,*'1ad Id., 341.- - However, our 1941 decision vas baso-d on aection V0Zthe Ac t of lHarch 15, 1898, 30 Stest. 3l60,\which provided: - That hareaf ter law books, booke of reference, and periodicals for use of any - Executive Departmetit, or other Governniemt eztablishmmet* *at the seat of Goverzmrewt shall not be purc.hased or paid for fromi any appropriation m~ade foT con4ngmt e~xpenses p-3UjsIED DECISION 55 Coinp.. Gen.~

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