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[CITE: 31USC720]

 
                       TITLE 31--MONEY AND FINANCE
 
                           SUBTITLE I--GENERAL
 
                  CHAPTER 7--GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE
 
                SUBCHAPTER II--GENERAL DUTIES AND POWERS
 
Sec. 720. Agency reports

    (a) In this section, ``agency'' means a department, agency, or 
instrumentality of the United States Government (except a mixed-
ownership Government corporation) or the District of Columbia 
government.
    (b) When the Comptroller General makes a report that includes a 
recommendation to the head of an agency, the head of the agency shall 
submit a written statement on action taken on the recommendation by the 
head of the agency. The statement shall be submitted to--
        (1) the Committee on Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the 
    Committee on Government Operations of the House of Representatives 
    before the 61st day after the date of the report; and
        (2) the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress 
    in the first request for appropriations submitted more than 60 days 
    after the date of the report.

(Pub. L. 97-258, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 896.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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           Revised Section                   Source (U.S. Code)                
Source (Statutes at Large)
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720(a)...............................  31:1157.                        Oct. 26,
 1970, Pub. L. 91-510, Secs.
                                                                        207, 23
6, 84 Stat. 1168, 1171.
720(b)...............................  31:1176.
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    In subsection (a), the words ``As used . . . the term'', 
``Federal'', and ``establishment'' are omitted as surplus. The words in 
parentheses are included for consistency with section 101 of the revised 
title.
    In subsection (b), before clause (1), the words ``Comptroller 
General'' are substituted for ``General Accounting Office'', and the 
words ``head of the'' are added, for consistency. The word ``written'' 
is omitted as surplus. In clause (1), the words ``Governmental Affairs 
of the Senate'' are substituted for ``Government Operations of the . . . 
Senate'' because of Rule 25.1(k) of the Standing Rules of the Senate (S. 
Doc. 96-1, 96th Cong., 1st Sess.). In clause (2), the words ``both 
Houses of Congress'' are substituted for ``the House of Representatives 
and the Senate'' for consistency. The words ``connection with'', ``for 
that agency'', and ``to the Congress'' are omitted as surplus.

                         Change of Name

    Committee on Government Operations of House of Representatives 
treated as referring to Committee on Government Reform and Oversight of 
House of Representatives by section 1(a) of Pub. L. 104-14, set out as a 
note preceding section 21 of Title 2, The Congress. Committee on 
Government Reform and Oversight of House of Representatives changed to 
Committee on Government Reform of House of Representatives by House 
Resolution No. 5, One Hundred Sixth Congress, Jan. 6, 1999.
