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           UNITED  STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE

                    WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548



                                      FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
     '2*  EXPECTED AT 10:00 a.m.
                                      May 5, 1983,

                        TESTIMONY  OF

                     CHARLES A.  BOWSHER

          COMPTROLLER GENERAL  OF THE UNITED STATES

                         BEFORE  THE

              COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENTAL  AFFAIRS

                    UNITED STATES  SENATE

                             ON

     PERSPECTIVES ON BUDGETING  FOR STATE AND LOCAL NEEDS

                   AND BIENNIAL BUDGETING


Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee:


     I am very pleased to appear before you  today to discuss

perspectives on budgeting for State and  local needs.  More

specifically, I will be discussing our work both on  advance

budgeting of Federal assistance to State  and local govern-

ments and on State biennial budgeting experiences.

     State and local government planning  and budgeting

processes have been straining under the rapid growth  of the

Federal grant system during the late  1960s and early 1970s,

the increased complexity of these programs, the recent  shift

to greater decisionmaking responsibility by  these govern-

ments, and, most recently, reduced Federal  funding.  In view

of the critical role of these governments,  it behooves the

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