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NSIAD-85-29 1 (1984-12-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabnoe0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 NATIONAL SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS DIVISION DECEMBER 13, 1984 B-215159 The Honorable Strom Thurmond Chairman, Subcommittee on Military Construction Committee on Armed Services 125836 United States Senate Dear Mr. Chairman: Subject: The Army's Construction of Dependent Classrooms at Ft. Irwin, California (GAO/NSIAD-85-29) On October 11, 1983, you asked us to review the Army's construction of temporary dependent classrooms at Ft. Irwin, California, using operation and maintenance funding which had been appropriated to the Department of Defense (DOD) Dependent School Program. Specifically, you asked whether proper statutory authority existed for this program since --it had not been authorized by the Congress and --operation and maintenance funding had been used for construction. To respond to your specific questions, we reviewed the relevant legislation and the events leading to the construction of the classrooms. We interviewed DOD and Army officials to obtain their interpretations of the legislation and their authority, and we visited Ft. Irwin. Based on the information discussed below, we conclude that there was statutory authority. The construction of the ten classrooms in question was completed in September 1983. Each unit is an individual modular building 30 feet by 32 feet erected on reinforced concrete slabs. The units are used as classrooms of the Ft. Irwin elementary school and can be detached from the concrete slabs and relocated elsewhere if the need arises. AUTHORITY FOR DOD TO FUND THE SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION Section 709 of the DOD Appropriation Act, 1983, enacted as section 101 (c) of Public Law 97-377 (Continuing Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1983), provided that (393028) S 0) k

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