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RCED-83-239 1 (1983-09-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabncu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE PF WASHINGTON, D.C. 20648 September 14, 1983 RISOURCES, COMMUNITY. ANO ECONOMIC OEVELOPMENT OIVISION B-206763 I IIIl ID fll lIDl The Honorable Jesse Helms 122367 Chairman, Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry United States Senate Dear Mr. Chairman: Subject: Operation of the Department of Agriculture's Special Dairy Distribution Program in Nashville, Tennessee (GAO/RCED-83-239) In your letter of July 22, 1983, you asked for a brief writ- ten description of the results of our review of the operation of the Department of Agriculture's special dairy distribution program in Nashville, Tennessee. Your letter referred to the Mayor of Nashville's recent testimony beforeyour committee's Subcommittee on Rural Development, Oversight, and Investigations in Denver, Colorado, concerning problems the City of Nashville encountered in obtaining butter and cheese from the Department for distribution to needy individuals. According to your letter, your understand- ing is that the Department contends that proper requests for the commodities were not made. The overall objective of our review was to obtain information on Nashville's February 1983 request to the Department's Food and Nutrition Service (the Service), which administers the program, for surplus cheese to be distributed to needy individuals. Our findings are summarized below and are discussed in more detail in the enclosure to this letter. Subsequent to a newspaper report that large quantities of Government-owned dairy products were stored in local warehouses, the Mayor of Nashville, in a February 7, 1983, letter to the Serv- ice's Southeast Regional Office in Atlanta, Georgia, requested surplus butter and cheese for distributions that the city had scheduled for late February. Although the Regional Administrator advised the Mayor in a letter dated February 14 that butter and cheese would be made available to the city (which they (022882)

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