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B-188881 1 (1978-05-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadsog0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE 16 ° uTfO WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 ti IN REPY ,,.°.o~o..-..RE.ER TO: B-188881 : i 0FICECOr G ENERAL COUNS§EL May:8, 1978 RFRT:B188 The Honorable Sam Brown Director, ACTION Dear Mr. Brown: This* is in.response to a letter from Mr. James E. Allen, Chief, Fiscal Services .Branch, Accounting Division, ACTION, concerning a shortage in the imprest fund of the Peace Corps Western Samoa Office. Relief was reques. ed for r, class B cashier under 31 U.S.C. § 82a-i(1970)... The General Accounting Office is authorized, after consideration of the pertinent findings and if in concurrence with the determinations . . and recommendations of the head of the department or independent estab- lishment concerned, to relieve an accountable officer if the head of the. department or independent establishment-makes an affirmative determina- tion that, among other things, the loss in question did not result from.- the fault or negligence of the accountable officer., . Mr. Allen's letter of January 16, 1978, makes no mention of any determination or recommendation by him as the authorized designee of the agency head. However., we note that the letter was accompanied by a finding by your General Counsel that was entitled to relief and .that should he concur, a request for relief be forwarded to our Office. Therefore, we will consider his letter as an acceptance and adoption of the findings of your General Counsel. was serving as principal class B cashier for the. Peace Corps Western. Samoa Office through January 19, 1976..' was formally designated as principal class B . -. cashier by letter from the U.S. Disbursing Officer on March 5, 1976. The imprest fund was certified.complete and correct on February.4, 1976,. but' on March -3, 1976., an audit revealed a shortage Of $1, 634.56 zin the imprest fund. There has been no determination as to the source of the deficiency; therefore, the request for relief rests on the determination of responsibility for the maintenance of the imprestfund from February 4, 1976 until .March 3, 1976. ACTION Order 2325.1,. MS 731, Chapter. 1, para. 3-d(2), defines the principal class B cashier position as follows: (a) Principal Clas. B Cashier. An individual who an office head, the domestic regional director (5 (i,:, : .:i:-.• : ......................... .

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