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B-191120 1 (1978-05-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadgbo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: peno,*,ThE COMPYROLLUM ENSUAL ' Va 9 DECISION OP 1or UNsITED UTATsE W A SU IN G TO N . 0.C . 2 0 54 6 PILE: 8-191120 DATE: Nay 17, 1976 MATTES OF: Request for Advance Dcision by Disbursing Officer, Corpe of tngineers DIGEST: The Comptroller General will not render a decision on the merits of a request from a disbursing office- for a decision under the provisions of 31 U.S.C. S 74 unless either a specific voucher is in question or the matter is of a general and recur- ring nature. The Disburning officer tur the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, has requested an advance decision on a claim filed by the Maryland Casualty Com- pany. Maryland Casualty's claim-arises out of its pay- ient surety agreement with Douglas K. Tracy, Inc. (Tracy), prime contractor on contract No. DACA 31-74-C- 0068. The statutory authority under whicn this Office renders decisions to disbursing.officers is 31 U.S.C. S 74 (1970) which provides in pertinent part as fol- lows: U5 74. * * * Disbursing officers, or the head of any executive department, or other establishment not under any of the executive departments, may apply for and the Comptroller General shall ren- det his decision upon any question in- volving a payment to be made by them or under them, which decision, when rendered, shall govern the General Accounting Office in passing upon the account containing said disbursement. q

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