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B-285919 1 (2000-07-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptaleu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ~GAO __ _ _ _ __ United States General Accounting Office Office of the General Counsel Washington, DC 20548 B-285919 July 25, 2000 The Honorable Ernest J. Istook, Jr. Chairman, Subcommittee on District of Columbia Committee on Appropriations House of Representatives Subject: Federal Payments to District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority Dear Mr. Chairman: This responds to your July 21, 2000, request for a legal opinion concerning the responsibility of Federal departments, agencies, or independent establishments (Federal agencies) to pay for water and sewer services (water services) provided them by the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (WASA). You also asked what legal powers are available to the Department of the Treasury to obtain payment from agencies that are delinquent in making deposits into the United States Treasury account established to facilitate Federal payments to WASA. Section 133 of the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 1990, Pub. L. No. 101-168, 103 Stat. 1280-1282 (1989), amended the District of Columbia Public Works Act of 1954, Pub. L. No. 364, ch. 218, 68 Stat. 101 (1954), to establish a new process for accounting, allocating the cost, and paying for water services that WASA provides Federal agencies. Under the new process, beginning with the second quarter of fiscal year 1990, the Secretary of the Treasury is to pay the District of Columbia 'Section 133 established this process on a 12-month trial basis. After a number of annual extensions, this process was made permanent by section 128 of the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 1995, Pub. L. No. 103-334, 108 Stat. 2586 (1994). The provisions of the District of Columbia Public Works Act of 1954 concerning water services supplied for the government of the United States are codified in section 43- 1552 of the D.C. Code, and those concerning sewer services are codified in section 43- 1612 of the D.C. Code. However, the current edition of the D.C. Code does not reflect the new process established by section 133 of the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 1990, and made permanent by section 128 of the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 1995.

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