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B-306475 1 (2006-01-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptastc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: SGAO Accountability * Integrity Reliability United States Government Accountability Office Washington, DC 20548 B-306475 January 30, 2006 Mr. Roger La Rouche Acting Inspector General Election Assistance Commission Subject: Help America Vote Act of 2002: Audits and Recoveiy of Funds Dear Mr. La Rouche: You requested information on how the Government Accountability Office (GAO) will implement section 902(c) of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA). Pub. L. No. 107-252, § 902(c), 116 Stat. 1666, 1728 (Oct. 29, 2002) (codified at42 U.S.C. § 5542(c)). Section 902(c) provides that recipients of funds provided pursuant to HAVA shall repay certain amounts if the Comptroller General makes a determination as a result of certain audits that the recipient did not comply with program requirements or received an excess payment. In an audit of California's use of HAVA funds, conducted on behalf of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (the Commission) by the Department of the Interior, Office of Inspector General (DOI-OIG), auditors questioned some of California's costs because they were either unallowable or unsupported. You would like to know if the Comptroller General must make a determination under section 902(c) for an agency to recover funds, and if so, what procedure he will apply in doing so. For the reasons set forth below, the Comptroller General need not make a determination under section 902(c) before an agency making payments may take corrective action on questioned costs. HAVA authorizes various federal agencies to make grants or provide payments of federal funds to the states and various other entities for purposes related to election reform. See, e.g., Pub. L. No. 107-252, § 101, 116 Stat. 1666, 1668-69 (Oct. 29, 2002) (codifiedat42 U.S.C. § 15301). The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) disbursed $27,340,830 of HAVA funds' in fiscal year 2003 to California to improve the 1 GSA paid the funds to California pursuant to section 101 of HAVA, codified at 42 U.S.C. § 15301. Congress appropriated the funds to GSA for such payments on February 20, 2003. Miscellaneous Appropriations Act, 2003, Pub. L. No. 108-7, div. N, 117 Stat. 537 (Feb. 20, 2003). Such payments are to be deposited into an election (continued...)

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