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B-175155 1 (1979-07-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadhld0001 and id is 1 raw text is: - - .7 DATE: July 25, 1979 MATTER OF: e eratin naents o iati FY 1979 -Applicable Allocation Form-a- DIGEST: Congress appropriated lump-sum for gr-ant-s of which $75 million shall be available f - rail service operating pp5gents (RSOP). I-- ropriation was obligated,-new formula, allocating sums to non-rail fixed guideways 'b'-sed on amount of RSOP, was enacted. ( ) e-~gncvr t__Lh n n nF ii for RS0 but required to allocate lump-sum according to new or old formula: old formula was repealed and new form , by its terms, applies to propriations pursuant to authorization therein./ y is therefore not re- quired to fund allocatI n to non-rail fixed guideways. This decision is in response to a letter from the Chairman five members of the House Committee on Public Works and Transporya- ?4 tion. requestfa@ ourpinion. gw at the lette a con in statu The nflict is over the method to i b million, which was earmarked from within a larger appropriation for urban formula grants to the bansporta- tion Administration (UMTA), Depertment-of-Urameperteedee, for rail seffvce operating payments. /The substantive legislative authority governing the distribution of these funds at the time the appropriation was enacted was repealed 10 weeks later. A new distribution formula, much broader in scope, was enacted at that time. The question is whether that new formula applies to the earlier enacted appropriation in whole, in part, or only prospectively ;/ A. Legislative Background The Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropri- ation Act, 1979, Pub. L. 95-335, approved August 4, 1978, 92 Stat. 444, appropriated funds for urban formula grants as follows: For necessary expenses for urban formula grants as authorized by the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964, as amended, * * * $553,500,000, of which * * * $75 million shall be available for rail service operating payments, to remain available until September 30, 1982. 0LLER r-, o -.'~ THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, O.C. 20548 VN.4ITE9 FILE: B-175155 A&DOZ3

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