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B-289801 1 (2002-12-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaodv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO ,Accountability * Integrity * Reliability United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 B-289801 December 30, 2002 The Honorable George Miller Ranking Minority Member Committee on Education and the Workforce House of Representatives The Honorable David Obey Ranking Minority Member Committee on Appropriations House of Representatives Subject: U.S. Department of Education's Use of Fiscal Year Appropriations to Award Multiple Year Grants You asked for our opinion regarding the Department of Education's (Education) use of appropriations available for only one fiscal year to fund grant awards for multiple years for the Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Program (GEAR UP) and the Early Childhood Educator Professional Development Program. As you are aware, this question raises the issue of whether the bona fide need rule prohibits award of multiyear grants with fiscal year money. For the reasons explained below, we conclude that (1) for grants, the principle of severability is irrelevant to a bona fide need determination, (2) a bona fide need analysis in the grant context focuses on whether the grants are made during the period of availability of the appropriation charged and further the authorized purposes of program legislation, (3) beginning in fiscal year 2002, Education's award of Early Childhood Educator program grants up to 4 years in duration is explicitly permitted by program authority and fulfills a bona fide need of the period for which the funds used are available, and (4) Education's award of 5-year GEAR UP grants during fiscal year 2001 and 2002 and 2-year Early Childhood Educator grants during fiscal year 2001 is in accordance with the program legislation and fulfills a bona fide need of the period for which the funds used are available.

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