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B-186798 1 (1976-09-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadczf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: OLLER . ? ~ THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION . OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 _p_ - ,. FILE: B-186798 DATE: SEP 16 197S I 5 MATTER OF: Television Services on St. Paul Island, Alaska OIGEST: 1. Expenditure from appropriated funds by National Weather Service (MIS) for television services provided to remote Goverim ent-owned recreational facility was proper since expenditure for recreation is specifically authorized by § 202 of the Pur Seal Act of 1966, as amended, 16 U.S.C. § 1162. 2. Cost of providing television services to National Weather Service Government-owned employee homes may be paid with appropriated funds if Secretary determines that such services are necessary and he charges for them at a rate he determines to be reasonable under the circumstances. 16 U.S.C. § 1163(a)(2). By letter of June 18, 1976, Mr. Anthony J. Rudea, Jr., an authorized certifying officer with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (MAA), a division of the Department of Commerce, requests our determination of the propriety of making payments out of appropriated funds for television services pro- vided to a Government-owned recreational facility and homes occupied by Nlational Weather Service (NWS) employees and their families located on St. Paul Island, Alaska, a constituent of the Pribilof Island chain in the Bering Sea. NWS, a major line component of NOAA, operates a forecast office on St. Paul Island. To provide for the entertainment of employees located at that remote location, a Government-owned recreational facility, equipped with one television set, was erected and rain- tained for Government employees and their dependents. The city of St. Paul supplies the facility with television services, generally consisting of old movies, in return for which INWS pays a program rental fee to the city. The fee for fiscal year 1976 was $1,000. Similar charges for slightly larger amounts have been paid in prior years. Ok 19030

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