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B-191761 1 (1978-09-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadgkv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: i i 0 gII, ---- -- DmCIcIOP IbM'7S~ -r --4' 1 .)'.# 9.'p * S a, ('ilk THU COMPTROLLER SENRAL C CF PTPS UNiTED ETATEs WASHINGTON, D. C. 'dO5a ( 9 75/C) FILE: D-19 MATTER OF: DIGEST: I i 11 1 1701l A I5u LATE: Sptmber 2, 1978 Department of Agriculture ** Uniforin Allowance for M6iat Grader Employees Food Safety 4nd QuaULty Service (FSQS), Department of Agriculture, , which, FSQSladvises us, operates on a user fee trilst fund may authorize meat grader em- ployees a .tinform aflwance under 5 U.S.C, 5 5901, provided tbe followintfour basic conditions are satis- fied: (1) i. eaeci'icaiproprlation'forLuniforruis; (2) a deteritinatip by appropriite cfficial that a certain ernploy'e group is rdqired to wear ,uniforms;' (3)'a determihdtion that either Government is to furnisiL uniformsr ipay an allowance; affd (4).promulgation of spheifib agehey reguliris'covering the4eaing of, uiifotms aonpecific .api tiatibh requiroment, s satis - fiedpy uniform itithorizationyprovision hiAgri ilture Departihnet's aniial apiiropidation act, and thus user fees, which a'e apropriated funds, may be expended for this Anitpose. This.action 'is; £h rsponpe to a request ,f April 21, ' 19K, from Mr.-Bfobert Angdlofi, Ph. D., 'Adininistrator, Food Safety arnd Quality Servic (FSQSY Department of Agriculture, for a ruling by this Office concernirng it'authority to establish a uniform allowance for its MrPat graeors, .rhe FSQS hais a'been chaiged with thOd, i4'spons.bility for providing meat grading services toflte'medtt Industry riqired by theAkri- .cultural Marketing Act f 1946, as azisended\7 ti. S. C. §§ 161 'et se . FSQS desires to promulgate piguition: hliat would require FS'meat g aido, eMployees tb wear 'a clean, ;yhite, well maintained frock .;s iin dober garment whihever they pero A'p'official meat gadiig 6r'. acceitatce duties whichoutinely invcive the haidling of meat and'meat product- ',:These frocks areto be, the traditional type 'Piresently worn ay industry employees who hundle rmeat. ', :4'SQSdesires'to authorize the paymenttof a uhifoTi allowance 'to rieat grader euiployes 'pursuant to.5 U. S. C. ' 5901.inIieu of proviAlintheri wittiGovernnridit furritshed i hiforns; liowever, it is uncertain of its authofity to authorize 'su.2h albtvance becaiusa f di unusual manner by which the FSQS is funded. FSQS idI ses us that'pursuant to 7 U.S. C. S 1G22(h), it obtains its operating I~I 'N -au1 - 'I p II 'I, -a-- ~aa a---- p -r ' 2! - - tp II 9r¶?11 .. .. ... I,, - 2.~ I,' ,. p 7 d- 'I1! I. /4 4. 'I p i ii I I'4 ,I II I I III,, it) , I

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