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Accountability * Integrity * Reliability
United States General Accounting Office
Washington, DC 20548
June 5, 2002
The Honorable Harold Rogers
Chairman
The Honorable Martin Olav Sabo
Ranking Minority Member
Subcommittee on Transportation
and Related Agencies
Committee on Appropriations
House of Representatives
Subject: Highway Projects: Extent of Unobligated Balances for Demonstration Projects
as of March 31, 2002
Congress has provided funding for numerous highway demonstration projects in
legislation authorizing surface transportation programs as well as in annual
appropriations acts for the Department of Transportation (DOT). In some cases, the
projects are identified in the legislation itself. In others, they are identified in committee
reports accompanying the legislation. These projects are all designated for specific
locations within states and for specific purposes, and funds made available for them
generally remain available until expended. In order to identify funds that could be
rescinded, you asked us to identify highway demonstration projects with unobligated
balances that are no longer needed, and the amount of these balances.
Results
As of March 31, 2002, there were 30 highway demonstration projects with unobligated
balances that were no longer needed by the states.' These projects accounted for about
$5.6 million in unobligated funds. These funds were provided in authorization or
appropriations acts enacted from 1978 through 1994. Table 1 in the enclosure specifies
the budget authority made available and the obligated and unobligated amounts for each
of the projects with unobligated balances as of March 31, 2002; lists the statute(s) and,
where appropriate, committee report(s) identifying the projects, beginning with the most
recent, and describes briefly the location and nature of the projects. We also found that
8 of the 30 projects have very small unobligated balances of less that $1.50 each, and we
have provided that information to your staff.
' We identified another set of demonstration projects with unobligated balances in 2001. See Highway
Projects: Extent of Unobligated Balances for Demonstration Projects (GAO-01-985R, Aug. 17, 2001.)GAO-02-721R Highway Projects
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