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B-283599.2 1 (1999-09-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptajmx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ~GAO __ _ _ _ __ United States General Accounting Office Office of the General Counsel Washington, DC 20548 B-283599.2 September 29, 1999 Mr. Ulysses B. Hammond Executive Officer District of Columbia Courts Subject: District of Columbia Courts' Funding of Criminal Justice Act Obligations Dear Mr. Hammond: This responds to your letter dated September 27, 1999, requesting our views on the availability of four funding sources for obligations incurred under the Criminal Justice Act (CJA) in excess of the $25,036,000 cap established by the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 1999. Specifically, you ask about two funding sources from the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 1999, and two from legislation pending for fiscal year 2000. Because your request concerns fiscal year 1999 CJA obligations and you have identified unobligated funds from fiscal year 1999 appropriations, we will limit our response here to the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 1999. The availability of the two fiscal year 1999 sources you identify - unobligated appropriations earmarked for the Child Abuse and Neglect Program (CCAN) and unobligated appropriations for District of Columbia Courts operation generally - for CJA purposes present the same issue. Under what authority may the Courts use the Federal Payment to the District of Columbia Courts, which was appropriated by the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 1999, for CJA purposes in excess of the amount earmarked by the Act? The Federal Payment to the District of Columbia Courts provides up to $121 million for operation of the District of Columbia Courts. Pub. L. No. 105-277, 112 Stat. 2681- 122 (1998). The first proviso to the appropriation provides that of the $121 million, up to $6.9 million shall be for CCAN and up to $25,036,000 shall be for CJA cases,

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