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RCED-95-263R 1 (1995-08-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackxt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: O United States GAf General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division B-262207 August 7, 1995 The Honorable Richard Hastings House of Representatives Dear Mr. Hastings: This report responds to your request for information on uncosted obligations held by the Department of Energy (DOE) and its management and operating (M&O) contractors. Uncosted obligations are budget authority that DOE has obligated to its contractors for goods and services that have not yet been provided and for which costs have therefore not been incurred. At the end of fiscal year 1994, uncosted obligations totaled about $8.4 billion for DOE-funded programs. DOE's M&O contractors held about $5.0 billion of these uncosted obligations. This report discusses the uncosted balances reported at 13 DOE facilities and its headquarters offices.' During the past several years, we have conducted reviews designed to identify uncosted balances related to ongoing operations that could be used to offset DOE's budget request.2 Our objective for this review was the same--to identify uncosted balances related to ongoing programs that could be 'The 13 facilities are the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois, Hanford Facility in Washington, Idaho National Engineering Laboratory in Idaho, Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Colorado, Nevada Test Site in Nevada, Oak Ridge Facility in Tennessee, Rocky Flats Site in Colorado, Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, Savannah River Site in South Carolina, and Stanford Linear Accelerator Center in California. 2Energy Management: Use of Uncosted Balances to Meet Budget Needs (GAO/RCED-94-232FS, June 6, 1994) and Enercry Management: Additional Uncosted Balances Could Be Used to Meet Future Budaet Needs (GAO/RCED-94-26, Oct. 26, 1993). Ga&O/RCED-95-263R, DOE's Fiscal Year 1994 Uncosted Balances

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