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B-199470 1 (1980-10-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabjdy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: e t1 GAO ___ __ ____ Washington, DC 20548 Genera! Ccun, eI In Repty Refer to: E-199470 October 30, 1980 Joseph V. McLrail, Esq. 632 North Washington Street D el~ir '~ ' tillrenU Alexandria, Virginia 22314 Dear Mr. McGrail: Your recent letter requested payment of claim No, Z-2822700, Inland Service Corpoation and Wldon Smith., ajoint venture. The Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals awarded t.- claimant $12,226.43 on a contract dispute toget;er with the interest to which he may be entitled by law. The Department of the Army certified the above amount to this Office for payaient but withheld interest and has filed an appeal in the Court of Claims seeking to overturn the award of interest by the Board. That action has been docketed under the caption, UnitedStates v. Inland'Service €orxration and. Weldon Sith, Joint Venture, Appeal 1-80. W. have no authority to effect payment o the amount certified so long as the matter is the subject of continued litigation. Awards of the type rendered bv the Board are payable from ar permanent indefinite appropriation containe 'th 31 U.S.C. § 724a. That section provides in part as follows: 724a. Appropriations for payment of judgments 1 and compromise settlements against United States There are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, such sums as may be necessary for the payment, not othetwise provided for, as certified by the Comptroller General, of final judgments, awards, and ccmpranise settlements, which are payable in accordance with the terms of section 2414, 2517, 2672, or 2677 of 7Title 28 and dacls.ions of boards of contract appeals, the Act of Deceanber'28, 1922, chap. 17, 42 Stat. 1066, awards rendered'by the Indian Claims Comission, and amounts (in excess of the anounts payable from agency appropriations) of claims determined meritorious under section 2733 or 2734 of Title 10, sec- tion 715 of Title 32, and section 2473 of Title 42, to- gether with such interest and costs as may be specified in such judgments or otherwise autihorized by law* * A.;•0 ft1

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