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094483 1 (1969-04-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadxma0001 and id is 1 raw text is: / ____ **vj United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY Expected at 10:00 a.m. EST April 22, 1969 STATEMENT OF ELMER B. STAATS, COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT RESEARCH COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS, UNITED STATES SENATE Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee: At your request, we appear before you today to present information developed by the General Accounting Office in its study to assist the legislative and appropriation com- mittees in achieving a realistic and uniform formula for Ejscertaining indirect costs on research grants] based on sound accounting principles. WHY THE STUDY WAS MADE Department of Defense appropriation acts for fiscal years 1966 through 1968 provided that any recipient of a DoD grant for the conduct of a research project would not be paid the entire cost of the project. Recipients of re- search grants, therefore, were required to share in the costs. Similar cost-sharing requirements were contained in appropriation acts of other agencies awarding Federal re- search grants. The 1969 Department of Defense appropriation bill passed by the House of Representatives, and approved by the i/'),1 h. ! 1__0/ .'_ il J