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CED-81-139 1 (1981-07-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabccx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STArES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 July 2, 1981 COMMUNITY AND ECOP40MIC DEVELOPMENT DIVISION B-203827 The Honorable James A. McClure Chairman, Subcommittee on Interior and Related Agencies 115744 Committee on Appropriations United States Senate Dear Mr. Chairman: Subject: Review of the. Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation Commission's Program (CED-81-139) In accordance with your March 4, 1981, request and subsequent agreements with your office, we have reviewed the Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation Commission's relocation benefits, policies, and procedures. On June 9, 1981, we briefed your office on the results of our review. This letter summarizes the information provided to you at that time. --The Commission is regularly compensating relocation house- holds at the maximum amounts authorized by law (currently $66,000 for households of four persons or more and $44,800 for households of three or less). Additional compensation is also paid by the Commission for dwellings and improve- ments (such as barns, corrals, fences, and orchards) owned by relocation households on the reservation. --The original replacement home benefit amounts of $17,000 and $25,000 have been adjusted by the Commission, as auth- orized by law, for inflation on five separate occasions. The Commission's adjustment methodology has varied because (i) the previous inflation factor was abandoned by the Commission during the third annual adjustment in favor of a higher inflation index, (2) the Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD's) prototype cost areas used by the Commission have changed four times in the five adjust- ments, and (3) a completely revised adjustment methodology was adopted by the Commission for the fourth annual increase. --Of the 72 families that occupied a reservation homesite and were relocated as of December 31, 1980, 51 families, or 71 percent, have moved off-reservation. off-reservation relocations may increase total program replacement housing costs by about $23,207,000. (387112) ,/ 1?

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