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B-202787 1 (1981-05-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadjjc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: FILE: B-20 MATTER C DIGEST: THE COMPTROLLER OENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES ASH I N G TON. 0. C. 2054 8 DATE: MAY 1, 1981 2787 JF: &leged grass roots lobbying by a CSA recipie 1. A letter written by a Community Services Administration (CSA) recipient to members of the public requesting they contact their congressional delegation and urge support for CSA constitutes grass roots lobbying and if paid for with Federal funds is a violation of applicable appropriation restrictions. 2. Community Services Administration (CSA) promulgated an Interpretative Ruling and Waiver of Special Con- ditions in the Federal Register which exempted its recipients from the lobbying restrictions on CSA appropriations in Section 407 of the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriation Act. We recom- mended that CSA rescind the ruling and waiver and nrnm1mcl-a- a new r1linn mAirn ii- olqr t-1- section 407 is applicable to its recipients. The Honorable Vin Weber, House of Representatives, has provided C us with a copy of a letter prepared by Region 6E, Community Action - Staff, Community Action Agency, Willmar, Minnesota, a Federal fund i recipient of the Community Services Administration (CSA). Mr. Weber AQCtID' states that this recipient made a mass mailing of the letter to members of the public in Minnesota. The letter indicates that the Reagan Administration is attempting to eliminate the CSA which would result in the crippling or death of program recipients, such as the originator of the letter, all across the nation. Readers are re- quested to write to their Congressmen and urge support for CSA in order to prevent its abolition. If Federal funds were used in the preparation or carrying out of the mass mailing, it constituted an illegal expenditure for what amounts to grass roots lobbying by the recipient. We define grass roots lobbying as an indirect attempt to influence pending legislation by urging members of the public to contact legislators to express support of, or opposition to the legislation or to request them to vote in a particular manner. 56 Comp. Gen. 889 (1977). 59 Comp. Gen. 115 (1979). 1). 1 c047 DCISION ~-4.fI7 / -7 q_ /5-5-/0

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