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B-179708-O.M. 1 (1975-01-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadrdl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Too pROM{ : irect GMS Division 0o 1o. Sntlcbuy~A SU!3JECT; .£uet for Cp~ill~of on the Legality of Additionn! Other Matters Relating to Congressean Mahon's .¢ Request of May 3l 1974 (B-179708) / l eference IS made to Mr. Kensky s letter of July 23 l974 , which transmitted a request from the Chairman of the Rouse Appro- ! ! priations C tittee asking that you rule on the legality of applying collected reinbursements to the current year. Reference is also made en my letter of October 2. 1974 which requested legal opinions on additional { sues relating to the 3hairaan~srequest. Members of my staff have periodically .net with Mr. Henry Wry Ski of your office tso discuss various issues relating to the Lhairman's ! requesto In accordance with agreements reached with Mr. Wry, we ar~e requesting a legal opinion on the following additiona! issue; of oi ofNew Obligations ii the M'_Nccount° On page xi of the Surveys and Investigations (SAf) staff of the House Appro-~ priations Comittee report on H and related Surplus Fund Accounts (Mr. Wiay has a copy) one agency official is quoted as saying that what bothered his 0gency the most is that the Surplus Fund, through restorations, is used to pay what might be terted new obligations° In hia opinion, M accounts and related Surplus Fund accounts should only be available to pay unliquidated obligations that have been properly recorded in the course of the normal appropriation ad ifun-ding proce ss Tis official be£.aeved that new claims in excess of some designt@J amount should nor ba paid from expired appro> Priations or from Maccounts but should Ibe sent to th Treasury and paid from some seci fund° Other agency offici al are quoted as Si aying that there is r eed foa I.arfiation of present procedures with respect to the purpose an1 intent of M a count activities and Surplus ?Flnd Oinstorain Wefud > : ° anl n.,w obligations (mieaningi oblga3tions whioh thu h g.rope ly Tha~. al, } : Afl'; anoprop iat'e Mm year or year [n the M iot ne: ot recorde ? ir ta iapse)

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