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B-115398.33 1 (1978-04-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtma0001 and id is 1 raw text is: b COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 April 5, 1978 IN REPLY B-i15398 .33 REFER TO:I The Honorable Richard S. Schweiker Labor-HEW Appropriations Subcommittee Committee on Appropriations United States Senate Dear Senator Schweiker: This replies to your letter of February 24, 1978, in which you and Senator Magnuson, Chairman of of the Subcommittee, asked that we review the approved personnel ceilings of the various programs within the Public Health Service of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW). You also asked whether the imposition of hiring ceilings below those authorized by the Congress constitutes a withholding of budget authority within the scope of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974. The enclosed charts, covering fiscal years 1976, 1977, and part of 1978, contain the results of our review. Included is information regarding the positions authorized by the rele- vant committee reports, hiring ceilings imposed by HEW, and positions actually filled. In sum, we found that for the entire Public Health Service, the total number of positions filled was 2 percent below the authorized level in fiscal year 1976 and 3 percent below the authorized level in fiscal year 1977. For the first part of fiscal year 1978 (through December 1977), the number of positions filled was 8 percent below the author- ized level. HEW officials told us that additional hiring dur- ing the remainder of this fiscal year is expected to reduce substantially the number of existing vacancies. You also asked whether hiring limitations imposed by HEW constitute illegal impoundments under the Impoundment Control Act of 1974. The Impoundment Control Act applies only to the rescis- sion or deferral of budget authority. A lump-sum appropria- tion for programs A, B, and C used to carry out only program C would not necessarily indicate the existence of impound- ments regarding programs A and B. So long as all budgetary resources were used for program C, no impoundment would occur even though programs A and B remained unfunded. Thus, in the case of a lump-sum appropriation for salaries and expenses ,: - . •.

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