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B-166506 1 (1976-05-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaddlv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: IT, -1 : '' THE COMPTIPRkLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. 0. Of i C . 2054 8 55 Comp. Gam.. FILE: B-166506 DATE: MAY 2 6 I97G MATTER OF: Department of Agriculture-Cooperative Agreements DIGEST: Department of Agriculture (Agriculture) may, pursuant to section 5 of Granger-Thye Act, enter into cooperative agreements with National Forest permittees whereby Agriculture maintains and operates waste disposal systems, permittees pay Agriculture their pro rata share of expenses for this operation and maintenance, and Agriculture deposits payments in cooperative trust accounts. The Department of Agriculture (Agriculture) has requested our opinion as to * * * whether the definition of 'work' as used in Section 5 of the Granger-Thye Act includes the opera- tion and maintenance of sewage collection and treatment systems, water systems, and sanitary landfills, and thus, whether the pro rata share that is for such work may be treated as cooper- ative deposits to be used along with appropriated funds to operate and maintain the sewage collection and treatment system. Section 5 of the so-called Granger-Thye Act, 16 U.S.C. 6 572 (1970), provides: (a) The Secretary of Agriculture is authorized, where the public interest justifies, to cooperate with or assist public and private agencics, organizations, institutions, and persons in performing work on land in State, county, municipal, or private ownership, situated within or near a national forest, for which the administering agency, owner, or other interested party deposits in one or more payments a sufficient sum to cover the total estimated cost of the work to be done for the benefit of the depositor, for admin- istration, protection, improvement, reforestation, and such other kinds of work as the Forest Service is authorized to do on lands of the United States: Provided, That the United States shall not be liable to the depositor or landowner for any damage incident to the performancet of such work. - I / ( K. DECISION q

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