§6508 Studies and Reports

Summary

A congressional committee that oversees a grant program can ask the Comptroller General to study it. The Comptroller General must check whether the program overlaps or conflicts with other grants and whether changing rules or procedures could make it more effective, efficient, economical, or uniform. The study must also look at the program’s budget, accounting, reporting, and administrative practices. The Comptroller General must send a report and any recommendations to Congress. If the program is ending, the report should be sent in the year before it ends when possible. The same committee can ask the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations to study how the program affects relations among federal, State, and local governments. That study must cover effects on State and local government organization, on federal‑State‑local money relationships, and on how well the different governments coordinate running the program. The Commission must send its report and recommendations to the requesting committee and to Congress.