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B-282601 1 (1999-09-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptajkf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -e GeAtOa __Comptroller General of the United States United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 Decision Matter of: National Park Service Soil Surveys File: B-282601 Date: September 27, 1999 DIGEST 1. Subsection 1535(d) the Economy Act, 31 U.S.C. § 1535(d), requires an ordering agency to deobligate funds at the end of the period of availability unless the servicing agency has completed performance or awarded a contract for the goods or services. Here, the National Park Service entered into interagency agreements for soil surveys with the National Resource Conservation Service, Department of Agriculture, pursuant to a statute other than the Economy Act. Where an interagency agreement is based on specific statutory authority other than the Economy Act, an agency is not required to deobligate funds at the end of the period of availability since section 1535(d) only applies to interagency agreements under the Economy Act. 2. A time limited appropriation may be obligated only to meet a legitimate, or bona fide, need of the fiscal year in which the appropriation is made. Generally, funds may be obligated for the provision of services beyond the fiscal year in which the appropriation is made only to the extent those services constitute a single no nseverable undertaking. DECISION Mr. John J. Reynolds, Regional Director, Pacific West, National Park Service, United States Department of Interior asks whether fiscal year 1998 funds obligated for soil surveys pursuant to interagency agreements with the National Resource Conservation Service, Department of Agriculture, remain available to pay for ordered services provided subsequent to fiscal year 1998. For the reasons stated below, to the extent the National Park Service has ordered nonseverable services, the fiscal year 1998 funds remain available to liquidate the obligation.

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