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B-230960 1 (1988-04-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadnbj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 0The Comptroller General of the United States 1 JWashington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matterof: Details to Congressional Committees File: B-230960 Date: April 11, 1988 DIGEST Nonreimbursable detail of two Treasury Department employees to congressional committee to assist in oversight and review of the FTS-2000 project is appropriate under Comptroller General decisions, based on agency determination that detail will further purposes for which agency's appropriations are available. DECISION We have been asked whether appropriations for the Department of the Treasury are available to pay the salaries of two employees who have been detailed from the Department to the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representa- tives, to assist in the oversight and review of the FTS-2000 project. The Department's Deputy General Counsel has represented that the services of these employees will aid the Department in accomplishing a purpose for which its appropriation is made available. We have long recognized that executive branch employees may be detailed to committees of Congress. 21 Comp. Gen. 1055 (1942). The question of whether agency employees may be detailed on a nonreimbursable basis depends, however, upon whether the particular services the employee will perform further a purpose for which the agency's appropriation was made. 64 Comp. Gen. 370, 379 (1985). For an agency to use its funds to pay the salary of an employee detailed to a congressional committee, the work of the committee must aid the agency in accomplishing a purpose for which its appropriation was made, such as by obviating the necessity for the performance by such agency of the same or similar work. 21 Comp. Gen. 1055, 1058, supra. The work performed under the detail must involve a matter similar or related to matters ordinarily handled by the loaning agency. 64 Comp. Gen. 370, 380, supra.

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