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GAO: Clinton Team Broke Law on Jobs
January 23, 2001 18:30 EST
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Clinton administration violated federal
law when it went around Congress to save the jobs of workers at a
soon-to-be-shuttered Ohio uranium plant, congressional auditors
said Tuesday.
The General Accounting Office said the plan to keep the
Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in a standby mode, thus
sparing some 1,000 layoffs, cannot legally be financed in the way
devised by former Energy Secretary Bill Richardson.
Richardson said putting the plant on standby was done as an
offshoot of a program to privatize government uranium enrichment
operations. He arranged to have $725 million in leftover
privatization funds returned from the Treasury, then went to
Piketon, Ohio, and promised to spend $630 million of it there to
protect the Portsmouth jobs.
''You were there for us when we won the Cold War. Now we're
going to pay you back,'' he told workers at the plant.
Moving the $725 million did not require congressional approval.
The GAO said establishing a technology demonstration project at
Piketon and putting the plant on standby are not legitimate
expenses of privatization and therefore violate the
Antideficiency Act.
That law allows agency decision-makers to be reprimanded,
suspended or fired if they obligate the government to spend money
that Congress hasn't formally approved. In this case, the
decision-makers were Clinton administration political appointees
who left when the Bush administration took over Saturday.
AP-NY-01-23-01 1830EST
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