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B-152020 1 (1970-07-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadaiq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ccuus(? COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 B-150o JUL 2 8 1970 Dear Mr. Fraser: Reforea is dAe to your letter of Jwne 15, 1970, concerning lark- ing ftelities for mployees of the Minneapolis Peat Office. You state that such employees vil be severely inconvenienced this samr when parking ftailities close to the main postal facility will be closed and indicate that there has been a steady deterioration in pdlic transporta- tion service. You have been infomed bW the Post Office Departmet that a decision by this Offtee prents the Departent from fuaishing parking facilities for these eployes at Goverment expense. Tn ask for the basis for the ruling referred to by the Post Office and urge its reevaluation. Apparently the $ istn referred to by the Post Office Departmnt is 43 Camp. Gen. 131 1963), remdered August 5, 1963, to the Seretary of the Treasury. That deeiaion considered the question of whether the C- madant of the Coa Guard) under his authority to equip, operate, main- tain, espply, speir Coast Goard districts and shore establishments (14 U.S.C. 93() could lease a plot of land adjacent to the Coast Geard Base at Mobile, Alebam, and expend appropriated funds to prepare the land for use as an eloyee parking lot. th justification for the pro- pose! use of appropriated fmds it was explained that the Base was located in a badly deteriorated fozer emral area vithout adequate public trasportation and having virtually no parking apace on or off nearby streets. The total personnel involved was 181, only a part of which was penwanently asigned to the Base and the number of vehicles to be ac- codated each day ranged frs 85 to 100 vhih bad. to be pawed in a vide area arnmd the ase. We held in that ase the record did not establish the proposed parking lot was essential to the operation or maintewce of the Base so as to varrant the use of appropriated ftnds for a pmrpose that ordinarily was eansidered the respaneibility of the Individual, the parking of his private vehicle. In a decision dated Pebruary 9, 1970, 3-168096, 49 CoM. Gen. copy enclosed, we held, however, that appropriated funds could be used to lease land for employee parking provided it is determined--under the criteria set forth in GSA Order PBS 7030.2B--essential to do so in order to employ and retain personnel at a particular location and thus avoid -a-ei-ntftcant-iairmnt -theoperating effiotanc frmT ji ey in volved. That decisan was based on the provisions of the Federal Property and Adinistrative Services Act of 1949, e amended, 40 U.S.C. 471 et sen., .:. . .7 7- :

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