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B-183651 1 (1977-12-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadruo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES -, WASHINGTON. D.C. Z044 a-l83E I, 0C 2 2 !977 The Honrable Ji T. Mctyre Acting 9irector, Of Of ?tsageflt and Budget Iz.ar Mr. e.tiatyre: This letter responds to the request of your office for our comments on possible amendments to H.R. 8Maj 95th Congress, a bill which if enacted would create Offices of Inspector General in a number of agencies. We are in agreement with all of the modifications to R.I. S588 proposed by your office to resolve objection raised by the General Accouating Office and other Federal agencies to certain provisions of that bill. We are especially pleased with the proposals which would alilnate from the bill those seetions requiring each Inspector General sto ubmit reports directly to the Congress without review or co n nt by the agency head. We believe tb.t if R.I. 8588 is amended In accordance with the proposed aeudxents, enactment of the bill would be very benef 1- We would still like to see a further modification which we previously recosmded to Congress. We believe the title Inspector General? should be broad&*e to Office of Inspector and Auditor Qenral. The present title suggests the Inpector General has the ivestigative function but doss not indicate his responsibility for the full scope of audit, in- eluding audits to determaie financial integrity and compliance with per- tionmt laws and regulations, audits to identify inef ficiencies or wasteful practices and audits to assess effectiveness in achieving program goals. We are concerned that waless the investigative and audit functions are given equal emphasis in the title, the audit function may be subordinated to the investigative function. This could eventually weaken the audit structure of the affected agencies. We balive the name change we have suggested would retain the impact of the title 'lnspector Ceneral while indicating that this official is also responsible for audit. We also suggest daeletig the words fully and currently from sec- 'tion 1(3), which states that one of the purposes of establishing Offices of Inspector General is to keep the Congress fully and currently informed. OHB has already proposed the deletion of fully and currently from section 3(a)(4), which describes the Inspector General's duties and re- sonibilitLies. It would therefore seem conaistent to delete it from

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