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108873 1 (1979-03-21)

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            UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE

                 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548

                                         FOR RELEASE ON DELIVERY
                                         EXPECTED AT 9:30 A.M.
108873                                   WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1979
                        STATEMENT OF

           ELMER B. STAATS, COMPTROLLER GENERAL

         UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE

                         BEFORE THE

      SUBCOMMITTEE ON LEGISLATION AND NATIONAL SECURITY

            COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS /4/Z _

                 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

         CONCERNING )ACTIONS OF FEDERAL AGENCIES TO

                 RESOLVE AUDITORS' FINDINGS]



Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee:

     We are pleased to be with you today to discuss the

 results of our Government-wide review of the Executive agencies,

 actions to resolve audit findings. With me are Mr. Donald L.

 Scantlebury and Mr. Ronald C. Oleyar, both from the Financial and

 General Management Studies Division of GAO.

      My testimony will summarize the major issues addressed

 in a report which we issued on October 25, 1978. The report

 discusses the responsibility of Federal managers to take prompt

 and appropriate action on auditors' findings. Our review dis-

 closed a total of $4.3 billion of unresolved audit findings in


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