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PUBLIC LAW 93-604-JAN. 2, 1975

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"(a) Whenever the head of any department or agency of the Government or the Commissioner of the District of Columbia determines that economies will result therefrom, such agency head or the Commissioner may prescribe the use of adequate and effective statistical sampling procedures in the examination of disbursement vouchers not exceeding such amounts as may from time to time be prescribed by the Comptroller General of the United States; and no certifying or disbursing officer acting in good faith and in conformity with such procedures shall be held liable with respect to any certification or payment made by him on a voucher which was not subject to specific examination because of the prescribed statistical sampling procedure: Provided, That such officer and his department or agency have diligently pursued collection action to recover the illegal, improper, or incorrect payment in accordance with procedures prescribed by the Comptroller General. The Comptroller General shall include in his reviews of accounting systems an evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of procedures established under the authority of this Act.". TITLE II—AUDIT OF TRANSPORTATION PAYMENTS SEC. 201. Section 322 of the Transportation Act of 1940, as amended (49 U.S.C. 66), is further amended: (1) By deleting from subsection (a) the first sentence thereof and substituting therefor the following: "Payment for transportation of persons or property for or on behalf of the United States by any carrier or forwarder shall be made upon presentation of bills therefor prior to audit by the General Services Administration, or his designee. The right is reserved to the United States Government to deduct the amount of any overcharge by any carrier or forwarder from any amount subsequently found to be due such carrier or forwarder. This does not affect the authority of the General Accounting Office to make audits in accordance with the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921, as amended (31 U.S.C. 41), and the Accounting and Auditing Act of 1950, as amended (31 U.S.C. 65).". Transfer of (2) In the second proviso of subsection (a), by striking out functions. "cognizable by the General Accounting Office" and by striking out "received in the General Accounting Office" and inserting in lieu of the latter "received in the General Services Administration, or by his designee"; and (3) By redesignating subsections (b) and (c) as subsections (c) and (d), respectively, and by inserting the following new subsection (b): " (b) Nothing in subsection (a) hereof shall be deemed to prevent any carrier or forwarder from requesting the Comptroller General to review the action on his claim by the General Services Administration, or his designee. Such request shall be forever barred unless received in the General Accounting Office within six months (not including in time of war) from the date the action was taken or within the periods of limitation specified in the second proviso in subsection (a) of this section, whichever is later.". Transfer of ...v.,^=, ^.^^^..,, SEC. 202. (a) Incident to the transfer of functions pursuant to the r e c o r d s, property 'pVrs'onn'er, and '' amendments made by section 201 of this Act, there shall be transferred ^"49 USC 66 note. ^'^ ^^ General Services Administration such records, property, personnel, appropriations, and other funds of the General Accounting Office as the Comptroller General and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall jointly determine after consultation with the Administrator of General Services and, with respect to personnel, with the Chairman of the United States Civil Service Commission.

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