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B-158575 1 (1966-02-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadplh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ~,UA Oet, COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 RELEASED B-153 575 FEB 2 4 1966 Dear Mr. Chamberlaln 1y letter of February 2-:, 19(6, you requested our advice as to whether the provisions of section 116 of the Foretin Assistamce a3d Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1966, Public tav 8,:-2n, ?q stat. 0 1,0lO05Y;iould carry over to-funds vhch may be appropriated P'ar- suant to suppelaental authorizations currently being eonsidered by the on es. Section lldtprowdes that: No assistanee shall be furnished under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, to any country that sells, furnishes, or veruita any shis under its registry to carry to North Vietnm any of the item mentioned in subsection 107(a) of this Act unless the President de- ter lie that the ithhlding of such assistance would be contrary to the national interest of the Unted States and reports such determination to the Congress. The authorizing legislation to vhith you refer has been introduced iZ in the Senate as S. 2T93 and in the louse as )LB. 1219. Ech of these I blil *pii16t W ia-i ns d 4~5() f the !are - Assit anee Act of 1-61, as aended, to increase the'a unts authorized there- under for supporting assistance and for the contlngency fund in fiscal year 1966. The si=,opriatiotis requested by the Administration are in term of supplemental requirements for fiscal year 1966. (In addition to item covered in the bills metioned, an additlonal amount for military assistance to cover obliptions ineurred pursuant to authority of section 51D0f the act of t1-l is being sought.) - The prohibition contained it section l1e'is directed against the use of funds under authority of the Fortiep Assistance-Act of 196ft as . a'nded. Clearly any funds appropriated pursuant to the current con- siderations of the Congress would be subject to such authority. And it is a well-establIshed rule, long followed, that an aprogriation specifically supplementing one made by a prior act is subject to the sare liitations as the funds under the earlier apropriation. We ,eroeve af no reason to sugest that this general rule vould not apply in the circumstances here Involved. Cf. B_1o63z230oveve Z(, 1951; 19 Com~p. CGem. 324L6,~ 322 Co!ip.. Un. '7651i-P id. 601 12r i4.'94- V r