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B-202116,B-210338 1 (1983-09-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabkkz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COP IT RO 1 R (, fILRA OI 1-1HE U.NI LD SIAfE. WASHINGTON D.C. 20548 B-210338/B-202116 IINfIN September 19, 198 The Honorable Jeremiah Denton Chairman, Subcommittee on Family and Human Services Committee on Labor and Human Resources United States Senate Dear Mr. Chairman: This is in response to your recent letters requesting this Office to render a legal opinion concerning whether any of the documents and other materials that you recently obtained from the Legal Services Corporation (LSC) files and turned over to this Office, contain'evidence of violations of certain restrictions in the Legal Services Corporation Act of 1974 (42 U.S.C. § 2996). BACKGROUND At the end of 1980, Representative Sensenbrenner pro- vided this Office with certain internal memoranda he had obtained from the LSC and requested an opinion on whether these documents indicated that the Corporation had violated Federal anti-lobbying laws. We rendered our opinion in 60 Comp. Gen. 423 on May 1, 1981, holding that the material in the memoranda indicated that LSC had itself engaged and allowed its grant recipients to engage in lobbying activi- ties prohibited by Federal law. You have now provided us with several hundred additional internal memoranda and other materials from the LSC headquarters and regional office files covering primarily the 1981 calendar year period and have requested a determination concerning whether these materials contain evidence indicating that LSC or its fund recipients violated statutory restrictions on its training and coalition building activities as well as restrictions on advocating or opposing ballot measures, initiatives and referendums. It would require several months for us to review the enormous volume of material you have supplied and we plan to accomplish this task in connection with our investigation of the LSC survival plan that you requested. However, in order to comply with the short time frame of your request to pro- vide you with a response regarding the issues referred to above by mid-September 1983, we have selected certain mate- rial, that in our opinion, indicate violations of restric- tions you mentioned.

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