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B-197646 1 (1980-05-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadihg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISIOll OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D. C. 20548 FILET ar f' 7oan ~,I ~. ~ ...M -r=~ V.~ 0 ~ 1 a1 I aL A '0 MATTER DIGEST: OF: Liability of General Services Administration for Cost of Maintaining Excess Real Property held by Air Force 1. General Services Administration (GSA) regulations make GSA responsible for cost to agencies of main- taining excess real property, beginning one year after it becomes excess. FPMR § 101-47 402-2(b). Air Force spent $197,546 to maintain property. GSA says it is liable to reimburse only $56,000 because it offered to pay only that amount and because it lacked funds to pay more. GSA is lia- ble for full amount but we will not require GSA to seek deficiency appropriation for intragovern- mental payment. GSA should budget for these expenses or change its regulation. 2. In dispute between General Services Administration (GSA) and Air Force over Air Force claim for reim- bursement, Air Force withheld Standard Level User Charge payment owed to GSA in order to collect un- related debt. Inter-agency claims are not to be collected by offset but should be submitted to GAO for adjudication. This is in reference to the dispute between the General Services Administration.(GSA) and the Air Force (AF) over reimburse- ment of expenses incurred for the protection and maintenance of two parcels of Federal excess real property--the Matagorda Island Air Force Range and the associated Port O'Connor Dock Facility, Calhoun County, Texas. As explained below, we agree that GSA should reim- burse the AF for the balance of the p-rotection and maintenance costs incurred by AF. However, it would require a deficiency appro- priation to do so and we see no purpose in requiring this action under the circumstances. Also, offset by a creditor agency against a debtor agency is not appropriate. AF should remit the balance owed to GSA for Standard Level User Charge fees. The AF remained in possession of these installations after they were declared excess to AF requirements, and continued to provide protection and maintenance services for twelve months, as required of the holding agency by the terms of the Federal Property Management : B-197646 _9 2-3

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