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B-194074 1 (1979-04-11)

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THE  COMPTROLLER GENERAL
OF   THE UhI TEfD STATES
WASHINGTON  D.C. 20548



       DATE:  APR   1 1979


MATTE
                Idvertising Contxatt of National Commissa on
DIGEST:          Air  uality with  1d Wide A eney  Inc.
            44 U.S.C. S 3702 (197,6)-, wbih prohibits an extgative
            department of the Govntid*est, ot a bureau or office
            connected with it from publishing iewspaper adva
            tisements without writteonauthorisation by the bead
            of th4eepartmast is sot applicable to the National
            Commission on Air Quality, a legislative agency. See
            B-14074, March 26, 1979.

      This is in rospwnae to a _*st from the biraetor of the National
  Commission on Air Quality (the Se   ission) for a destrmittion of Vhe
  applicability of certain statuto# restrictions on a4drtising to tih
  Commission.

      The Commission was established by section 313 of the CleI* Air
 Act AmendAments of 1977, Pub. LA R,. 95-95, Augut 7, 1977, 91 Stat.
 685, 783, to study and report t tbe Congress on issues related to
 economia, technological, legal and environmental iaptisations of
 Clear *ix programs.

      Duritag Angest, 1978, aftert the apapentwit of the tommission
 members, the Commission contrcted fte ,advertising with World Wide
 Agency, l=.,  in oa  itio  with a warth for appligcts for the
 positions of fteative Direeto? aad Assistant Eaxecutive Director
 of the Commission. The advertisiag wes delivered and a fill tor
 4,985.68  was sataiteed to the comissioa in early Septeaber.

      Upon presentation of the bill to the Nav iemy       tesn
 Agency (EPA), which supplAd the Gission   with ads        trative
 irvices  during the first months of its existenes, EPA a**sed the
 Coission   that payment of the bill might be prohibited. ta kis
 letter of rebruary 5, 1979, the Acting Director of EPA's taaAcial
 Management Division informed the Commisiom's Exacutive Director
 thats

      Seetiem 3828, Revise4 Sae*as, and Sectien 12 of the
      Administrative lEpeakes Act of 1946 require written
      authorisation In advance by the head of a department
      or ageney for procuroea  of adiartising sertees.


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