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B-196690 1 (1980-03-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadiby0001 and id is 1 raw text is: .4-.. THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL .DECISIDOF T,.$E UNJITED STATES V WASHINGTON D. C. 20548 -FILE: B-196690 DATE: March 14, 1980O . LMATTER OF: ?Expenditures incurred by the Government of American Samoa for the American Samoan Judiciaryifa4 . DIGEST: kepartment of the Interior (DOI) may reimburse Government of American Samoa for payments made for the American Samoan Judiciary for salaries, motor vehicles and enter - tainment expenses. The appropriation to DOI for salaries and expenses of American Samoan Judiciary establishes, in effect, a grant to a non-Federal entity unlike the appro- priation for salaries and expenses of the United States Government Comptroller. Restrictions on use of funds appropriated to Federal entities are not applicable. So long as expenditures incurred are in furtherance of the grant object and do not contravene statutory, regulatory, or other restrictions imposed on use of money, they are permissible. e Dartment of the Interior (DOI) has asked about the propriety S. of certifying for payme or ~'penditures from funds appropriated to the Office of Territo I fa. The expenditures were made by the Government of American Samoa in 1978 and 1979 on behalf of the American Samoan Judiciary for alaries, motor vehicles, and ente - tainment of visiting dignitaries, In this regard, DOI asks that Z oar decision, -Rehimbursement of the Government of American Samoa, B- involving procedures for financing the office of the United States Governne C troller for American Samoa (Government Comptroller) We. We hk the relationship between DOI and the American Samoan Judiciary is entirely di e ent from that between DOI and the Govern- ment Comptroller and Wpevious decision is ther ore not applic- able. However, for the reasons explained below, ve no objec- tion to the use of the DOI appropriation for expenses of the American Samoan Judiciary to reimburse the Government of American Samoa for the expenditures described so long as DOI determines they were incurred for allowable expenses of the American Samoan Judiciary/ -1-

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