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5 - ~THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL
DECISION OF THE UNITED STATES
WASHINGTON, D. C. 20548
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FILE: DATE: M A R 14 51 97 9
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Norton Sound Health Corporation
DIGEST:
Norton Sound Health Corporation annually
has entered into contracts with Indian Health
Service, HEW, to provide health care ser-
vices during that fiscal year and desires to
carryover into the succeeding fiscal year any
unexpended funds to provide for medical ser-
vices it will render in that year. Although
provisions of 25 U. S. C. S 13a (1976) make the
funds available for two years, this authority
has been overridden annually by provision
in appropriation acts restricting use of funds
to current fiscal year unless specifically
provided otherwise in the appropriation act
involved. Appropriations made to Indian
Health Service for fiscal year 1978 contain
no such specific provision and funds lapse
at end of that year. Appropriation act for
fiscal year 1979 makes IFiS funds appropriated
therein available until the end. of fiscal year
1980.
The Norton Sound Health Corporation (NSHIC) requests our views
on three aestions goncerning the garryover of funds not obligated under
an in ialth Service (IUS) contact -
The Corporation's Executive Director states that, Most
recently there has been some confusion within DUEV (the Department
of Health, Education and Welfare] and 11-IS as to whether such carryover
is possible within existing law and regulations. We are asked to
resolve the confusion. As explained in more detail below, only when
the applicable appropriations act permits funds to remain available for
an additional fiscal year is the carryover of contract funds for health
services authorized.
Utilizing funds from the Office of Economic Opportunity, the
NSHC was established in 1970 as a private corporation under the laws
of the State of Alaska. Starting in 1974. the Alaska Area Native Health
Service, a component of the Indian Health Service, Department of
Health, Education, and Welfare, began contracting with NSHC,](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobadhab0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)