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CORf’ORATlON FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTING
Gary L. Kepplinger. Esq.
Associate General Counsel
Office of the General Counsel
U.S. General Accounting Office
ATTN: Robert Coufal
Room 614
441 G Street, N.U.
Uashington. D.C. 20548
Dear Mr. Keppllnger:
December 8, 1988
As the result of a recent meeting with your associate, Robert U.
Uagner, Jr., of the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO), CP8 has been
asked to respond to the GAO's update of its questionnaire on
government corporation policy requirements. Mr. Uagner pointed that
when the original survey was conducted in 1985, the Corporation for
Public Broadcasting (CPB) agreed to respond to Enclosure II, which
asked for financial information pertaining to the Corporation. CPB,
however, did not respond to Enclosure I, which seeks to determine
whether the Corporation is subject to various federal laws indicated
in the survey.
In the preface to the final report of the 1985 survey, it was stated
that CPB's willingness to respond to Enclosure II was based on the
fact that it received federal funding. As a matter of correcting the
record, it should be noted that CPB's response to Enclosure II was
based on the fact that the GAO has authority under the Public
Broadcasting Act of 1967, as amended, to audit CPB's financial
records. The financial information requested by the survey was in the
hands of the GAO already or was available to the GAO upon request.
Therefore, CPB had no problem in providing it.
Enclosure I, however, presents a different problem. It presumes that
CPB is an entity which is covered by the definitions contained in 31
U.S.C. 9101. It has been a long held and strongly maintained position
of the Corporation that It is not a governcnent corporation of any
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