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B-239903 1 (1991-06-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadnxc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ComptroUer General of the Uaited State Waablnvnn, D.C. 2064 NDecision matter of: Carrier-Provided Computers For Electronically Filing Tariff3 With the Interstate Commerce Commission File: B-239903 Date: June 28, 1991 DIGEST 1. The ICC did not improperly augment its appropriations by allowing private carriers to install computer equipment at the ICC's headquarters. The computers are used to give both the public and ICC staff access to tariffs which are electronically filed by the carriers. The ICC has broad statutory authority to prescribe the form and manner in which carriers must file tariffs and make them available to the public. Requiring carriers to provide computer equipment to access electronic tariff information is within the ICC's authority. However, the ICC should adopt the controls necessary to reasonably assure that the equipment is used only to access the tariff information. 2. The ICC has satisfied the requirement in 40 U.S.C. § 303b that it charge carriers for the space used by the carrier's computer equipment placed within the ICC's headquarters. ICC already charges the carriers user fees under 31 U.S.C. § 9701. The record shows that the user fees compensate the ICC for the space used by the computers. GAO will not use section 303b to examine the nature of a fee established within the proper use of ICC's discretion under section 9701. DEzIaION The General Counsel of the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) requested our opinion on whether the ICC's appropriations have been improperly augmented. The potential augmentation occurred when certain private carriers installed computer equipment at their own expense at the rCC's headquarters. The equipment was installed to give both the public arid ICC staff access to the carriers' electronically filed rate tariffs. For the reasons stated below, we conclude the ICC did not improperly augment its appropriations by accepting the equipment at the ICC's headquarters, and making the equipment available to access electronically filed rate tdriffs.

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