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Budget stimates for Fiscal Year 1979. Mar ,h 20, 197M. 6 pp. + 2
enclosures (4 pp.).
Testimcny before the Senate Committee on ippropriations:
Legislative 5bcoamittee; by 1obert F. Keller# Deputi
Coaptrcller General.
Contact: Offtic of the Comptrolltr Paneral.
Congressional Re-.eancc: Senate Co',mittee on AppropriaLions:
Legislative Sa i-oiumittee.
Authority: Toxic Substzncs Coutzol Lct. United States grain
Standards Act. nigrqy Conservation Act of 1976. Railroad
£evitalizatiri and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976. Srrface
sining Control and Reclamation act of 1977. Community
Emergency Drought Belief act of 1977. Clea1 Air Act
Ameadvents of 1977. P.L. 94-399.
The General Accounting Officels (GAO's) budget request
for for fiscal year 1979 is $187,843,000, an increase of
$11,863,000 over the 1978 eppropriation. This will support 5,264
average positions in 1979, an increase of 120 over the 5,14
authorized for fiscal year 1978. About $4.3 million of the
incre.se is attributable to a request for an additional 120
averago positions, GlOs budget request has threu basic
objectives: to be able to reaipond to specific congressionadl
requests for assisctance, to mai.ai. a minimum level of audit
and progras evaluation activity for all programs for which GAO
has audit responsibility under its basic statutes, and to carry
out other day-to-day responsibilities under GAO's basic
statutes. Fulfillment of these three objectives will require the
use of an additional 120 staff years in 1979 over fiscal year
1978 levels. Twenty additional staff-years are needed to frlfill
requirements of legislation sipecifically mandating GAO to do
audit and evaluation work within a specified time frame and
respoad to committee and hember requests for audits a.d
evaluations. Forty-nine staff years are estimated to be needed
in 1979 to meet responsibilities under GAO's basic coverage for
new and expanded programs. Another 79 staff-years are estimated
to be required to *backtill staff-years that will have to be
reprogrammed from regular audit covarage tc meet
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