B-203446: Jan 28, 1982

APPROPRIATIONS - AVAILABILITY - REFUNDS OF ERRONEOUS COLLECTIONS - FEDERAL LAND POLICY AND MANAGEMENT ACT - SPECIAL TREASURY ACCOUNT DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR WAS ORDERED BY A COURT TO REFUND MONEY WHICH THE COURT DETERMINED INTERIOR ERRONEOUSLY COLLECTED. THE FUNDS COLLECTED BY INTERIOR DURING FISCAL YEARS 1978 THROUGH 1981 WERE DEPOSITED INTO A SPECIAL ACCOUNT IN THE TREASURY AND WERE APPROPRIATED...

B-203446: Jan 28, 1982

The Department of the Interior requested a determination regarding the proper appropriation to use to pay refunds to the members of Intermountain Power Project (IPP) as ordered by a U. S. district court. IPP is a nonprofit corporation formed to build powerplants. The location of one of its proposed powerplants was intended to be on Federal land administered by Interior. Before IPP could build the...