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B-219771 1 (1985-08-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaduyq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 940 ' S Ij COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON D.C. 20548 -,219771 August 28, 1985 RELEASED ,re Honorable Jamie L. Whitten :hairman, Committee on Appropriations ,ouse of Representatives * iear Mr. Chairman : in its report on the fiscal year 1986 Agriculture U ppropriation, your Committee asked that we investigate and -eport on a possible unreported impoundment in the Department if Agriculture's Rural Housing Preservation Grant Program Program). H.R. Rep. No. 99-211, 72 (1985). The Committee's oncern was that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) ad not yet approved the proposed regulations necessary to iplement the Program. Since the issuance of your Committee's report, OMB has pproved the regulations. They were published in the Federal ,egister, with 60 days allowed for public comment, on July 26, 985. Because the regulations have been released and published, o current impoundment exists. The funds are available for bligation, although the administrative process of receiving and onsidering comments on the proposed regulations, revising and ublishing them in final form, and selecting eligible grantees ill consume so much time that there is virtually no possibility f the funds being obligated before the end of their period of vailability on September 30. Your Committee's bill, as passed y the House, addresses this problem by extending the availa- ility of the funds through fiscal year 1986. H.R. 3037, 99th ong. 1st Sess. (1985). Based on my staff's previous discussions with Mr. Robert Oster of the Committee staff, we trust this response fully atisfies the Committee's concern.. If we can be of further ssistance in this matter, please have your staff contact essrs. Barry Bedrick or Gary Kepplinger of our Office of eneral Counsel (275-5881). Sincerely yours, Acting Comptrolle Gn of the United States

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