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B-219742 1 (1986-07-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmja0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 0ECISION FILE: B-219742 THIE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OP THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 DATE: July 1, 1986 MATTER OF: Veterans Administration Funding of Federal Executive Boards DIGEST: The General Accounting Office agrees with the Veterans Administration's legal analysis that a general Government-wide Appropriation Act fiscal year restriction (currently contained in sec- tion 608 of the Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriation Act for fiscal year 1986, H.R. 3036) on the use of appropriated funds for interagency financing of boards or commissions which do not have prior and specific statutory approval to receive financial support from more than one agency or instrumentality, applies to the Federal Executive Boards since the Boards do not have statutory approval for inter- agency financing. However, single agency financ- ing of the Boards is not prohibited by the restriction. The Administrator of the Veterans Administration (VA) has requested our opinion on the lawfulness of funding Federal Executive Boards (Boards) using interagency fund transfers. Specifically, he asks whether we agree with a VA Acting Gen- eral Counsel's opinion that section 610 of the Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriation Act for fiscal year 1985, H.R. 5798 (incorporated by reference into the Continuing Appropriation Act for Fiscal Year 1985, Pub. L. No. 98-473, 98 Stat. 1837 (October 12, 1984)), restricts interagency funding of the Boards. As discussed below, we agree with the VA that interagency funding of the Boards is prohibited by the restriction contained in sec- tion 610 of H.R. 5798, supra.l/ The Boards do not have prior and specific statutory approval. On the other hand, we think that financial support of the Boards is lawful as long as only one agency pays the costs involved. 1/ For fiscal year 1986, the restriction is provided by section 608 of the Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriation Act for Fiscal Year 1986, H.R. 3036 (incorporated by reference into the Continu- ing Appropriation Act for Fiscal Year 1986, Pub. L. No. 99-190, 99 Stat. 1185, 1291 (December 19, 1985)).

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