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           UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
                   WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548

                                        FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
                                        EXPECTED AT 10:00 a.m.
                                        March 25, 1980

                        Statement of

                        Harry S. Havens

             Director, Program Analysis Division

                         before the

      Subcommittee on Legislation and National Security

             Committee on Government Operations        /S6

                  House of Representatives

                             on                      l ill I
               \Control of Year-end Spending ..

                                                       111902

Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee:

     We are pleased to be here today to discuss proposals

for strengthening controls over year-end spending.

     This is not a new issue. /There is a recurring concern

expressed publicly and in Congress that wasteful Government

spending may result from agency practices of obligating sub-

stantial amounts of funds during the last weeks and months

of the fiscal year in order to keep them from lapsing at

year-end/ ....I-wait -O emlpae --at4 a4-bec-ause funds are

obligated or spent near the end of the year, oes not

automatically mean that they were spent wastefully or

inappropriately. But, where monitoring of budget execution

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