NCJ Number
154377
Date Published
1987
Length
18 pages
Annotation
This U.S. General Accounting Office study reviewed a reimbursable interagency agreement between the U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. Customs Service that called for the Coast Guard to obtain and operate helicopters for the U.S.-Bahamas Drug Interdiction Task Force and also to provide enhanced communications operations to the task force.
Abstract
This report discusses the facts regarding the agreement and the roles of the repective agencies as well as the legal basis for the agreement and its associated billings and whether any+ that the agreement entered into by the Commandant of the Coast Guard and the Commissioner of the Customs Service was proper and did not contravene any legal requirements concerning the use of the funds involved. The Coast Guard met the requirements of the Economy Act (31 U.S. Code 1535 and 1536) and followed established Department of the Teasury procedures in billing the Customs Service under the agreement. Although not impacting on the legality of the agreement, the Customs Service did not follow its internal procedures for processing interagency agreements and did not promptly establish and obligation on its accounting records for the amount of the agreement, as required by the General Accounting Office's Policy and Procedures Manual for Guidance of Federal Agencies. Appended supplementary information