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B-164497 1 (1978-05-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadqml0001 and id is 1 raw text is: * COMPTROLLER GENERA . OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTO I. D.-C. 2O B-164497 May 3, 1978 The Honorable Pete V. Domenici United States Senate Dear Senator Domenici: This is in response to your request for our opinion on certain aspects of the Indian Reservation Roads and Bridges program which you indicate will be the subject of hearings to be held by the Sub- committee on Transportation of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. You explained the context of the Subcommittee's problem as follAows: Din every Federal-Aid Highway Act since 1956, when the biennial series began, there has been contract author- ization (in dollars) for 'Indian reservation roads and bridges,' funded subsequently by liquidating cash in the Department of Interior Appropriation Acts. For FY 1977 the Bureau of Indian Affairs submitted, as part of the President's budget, an appropriation request for Indian reservation roads and bridges which requested liquidating cash under the authority of 23 U.S.C. 203 as amended by the Federal-Aie Highway Amendments of 1974, and additional appropriations under the authority of 25 U.S.C. 318a tr make up the difference to the program level. The Congress sub- sequently appropriated the program total in two parts (P.L. 94-373), one under the authority of Title 23, the other under the authority of Title 25. As I understand it, this necessitated keeping two sets of books in the Bureau of Indian Affairs to avoid com- mingling the funds. The reason cited for invoking Title 25 in the House Report (No. 94-1218, p. 29), dated June 8, 1976, was that further contract authority for the program contained in the renewal of the Federal-Aid Highway Act was not yet enacted into law (although the Federal-Aid Highway kct of 1976 had become law on May 5, 1976).

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