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EMD-80-B1 1 (1979-10-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaazvn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: o4.W COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STTE WASHINGTON. D.C., 20548 46 P OCT 22 1979 B-181254 The Honorable Harley 0. Staggers Chairman, Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce / zf0 2L 110682 House of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: Subject: lomments on House bill H.R. 5019, 96th Congres57(EMD-80-Bl) The following comments on H.R. 5019 are provided for your consideration. As you know, section 501 of the Energy Policy and Conservation Act would be amended by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (d) and by inserting after sub- section (b) a new subsection to require that the Comptroller General establish a program to determine and reconcile any ,qifferences in the data on the volumes of imported petroleum VProducts which is collected and published by the Energy 'Wnformation Administration and the data which is collected Sy the United States Customs Service and published by the ureau of the Census. Each calender quarter, the Comptroller eneral would also be required to * * * prepare and transmit to the Congress a report setting forth any differences in petroleum product import data identified under such program together with explana- tion of such differences. We believe there are two principal reasons why this provision should be eliminated. One, that if enacted this quarterly requirement would draw heavily on our already limited staff resources, disrupt our audit plans, and pos- sibly preclude our undertaking other important work. In fact, such requirements might preclude us from timely per- forming work specifically requested by your committee or other congressional committees because the available staff necessarily would be involved in reconciling any differences in reported volumes of imported petroleum products and pre- paring a quarterly report as proposed by H.R. 5019. (990515)

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