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Payment of Clider Citizen Lifeline Utility Surcharge. 5-189149.
September 7, 1977. 4 pp.
Decision by Robert F. Keller, Deputy Comptroller General.
Issue Acea: Federal Procurement of Goods and Sfrvices:
Reasonatleness of Pricec Under Negotiated Contracts and
subcontracts (1904).
Contact: General Govenment Div.
Budget Function: Gene:al Government: Other General Government
1806).
Orgaaizaticn Ccncerned: General Services Administration; Maine:
Public Utility Coamission; Maine.
Authority: Clder Citizens Lifeline lectrical Services Law.
Public laws of Maine, 1975, 35 M.R.S.A., sec. 2, ch. 585.
Public laws of. Maine, 35 M.R.S.A., sec. 81-85. Public Laws
of Ha:2, 35 M.R.S.A., sec. 51. 3-178356 (1973). B-52531
(1945). B-105375 (1951). B-144078 (1960). B-148667 (1962).
B-144504 (1967). -171756 (1971)c 8-186494 (1976). 27 Comp.
Gen. 580. 32 Coap. Gen. 77.
Operating Accountant Robert A. Sylvester, General
Services Administration (GSA), Region 1, requested a decision on
whether GSA may pay a lifeline surcharge on electric ut'ility
billings in the State of Maine. GSA claimed that the suicharge
represerts a subsidy for providing electrical services to the
elderly rather than services to the Gover'nment. The lifeline
surcharge does not constitute discriminationf'againtst rederal
agency users alone aad, therefore, billings including the
surcharge may be paid. The Government isliable for late paymeit
charges apprcved by the State Public Utilities Commission which
become part of the utility rates payable under contract. (SW)
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