A bill to amend section 3726 of title 31, United States Code, relating to payment for transportation, to permit prepayment audits for selected transportation bills, to permanently authorize payment of transportation audit contractors from carrier overpayments collected, and to authorize net overpayments collected to be transferred to the Treasury.
PL 99-627 (H.R.5420), enacted 11/07/1986

100 STAT. 3508 
PUBLIC LAW 99-627—NOV. 7, 1986 
Public Law 99-627 
99th Congress 
An Act 
Nov. 7, 1986 
[H.R. 5420] 
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To amend section 3726 of title 31, United States Code, relating to payment for 
transportation, to permit prepajmient audits for selected transportation bills, to 
permanently authorize pajmient of transportation audit contractors from carrier 
overpayments collected, to authorize net overpayments collected to be transferred 
to the Treasury, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of 
America in Congress assembled, That section 3726 of 
title 31, United States Code, is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a) by striking out the first sentence and 
insert in lieu thereof the following: "A carrier or freight for-
warder presenting a bill for transporting an individual or prop-
erty for the United States Government may be paid before the 
Administrator of General Services conducts an audit, in accord-
ance with regulations that the Administrator shall prescribe."; 
(2) by redesignating subsections (c) and (d) as subsections (f) 
and (g), respectively; and 
(3) by inserting after subsection (b) the following new 
subsections: 
"(c) Expenses of transportation audit contracts and contract 
administration shall be financed from overpayments collected from 
carriers on transportation bills paid by the Government and other 
similar type refunds at not to exceed 40 percent of such collections 
annually. Pajnnent to any contractor shall not exceed 50 percent of 
the overpayments identified by any contract audit. 
"(d) At least annually, and as determined by the Administrator, 
after making adequate provision for expenses of refunds to carriers, 
transportation audit contracts, and contract 
administration 
authorized in subsection (c), the balance of the overpajrments col-
lected by the General Services Administration shall be transferred 
to miscellaneous receipt of the Treasury. A report of receipts, 
disbursements, and transfers (to miscellaneous receipts) pursuant to 
this section shall be made annually in connection with the budget 
estimates to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget 
and to the Congress. 
"(e) The Administrator may delegate any authority conferred by 
this section to another agency or agencies if the Administrator 
determines that such a delegation would be cost-effective or other-
wise in the public interest.". 
Sec. 2. (a) Within 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act, 
the Administrator of CJeneral Services shall establish a task force to 
study and investigate the feeisibility, desirability, and economy of an 
integrated, automated system that Federal agencies may use in 
managing the transportation of property for the United States. 
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) The task force established under subsection (a) shall— 
(1) be chaired by a representative of the Administrator; 
(2) include representatives of the Department of Defense and 
other Federal agencies significantly involved in the transpor-
tation of property for the United States; and 
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(3) solicit the views of private businesses with expertise in the 
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matters being considered by the task force. 
industry. 
(c) In studjdng and investigating the integrated, automated 
system, the task force shall consider including in that system such 
elements as automated routing, rating, documentation, pajnnent, 
and auditing. 
(d) Each department, agency, and instrumentality of the Federal 
Government shall furnish to the task force, upon its request, such 
data, reports, and other information (not otherwise prohibited by 
law) as the task force deems necessary to carry out its functions 
under this section. 
(e) The head of each such department, agency, and instrumental-
ity may provide to the task force such services and personnel as the 
task force requests on such basis (reimbursable or otherwise) as may 
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be agreed upon between such department, agency, or instrumental-
ity and the task force. 
(f) The task force shall submit a final report on the results of its Reports. 
study and investigation to the Congress not later than July 1, 1988. 
SEC. 3. (a) Section 402(aXl) of the Federal Property and Adminis- imports. 
trative Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C. 512(a)(1)) is amended by 
striking out "; but in no event shall any property be sold without a 
condition forbidding its importation into the United States, unless 
the Secretary of Agriculture (in the case of any agricultural 
commodity, food, or cotton or woolen goods) or the Secretary of 
Commerce (in the case of any other property) determines that the 
importation of such property would relieve domestic shortages or 
otherwise be beneficial to the economy of this country". 
(b) Applications pending before the Secretary of Commerce or the 
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Secretary of Agriculture on, or received sifter, the date of enactment 
of this Act for authorization to import property under section 
402(aXl) of the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 
1949 shall be returned without action, and applicants shall be 
informed in writing that authorization is no longer required after 
such date. 
(c) The amendment made by subsection (a) shall not affect any 
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civil or criminal proceeding instituted by the United States prior to 
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the date of enactment of this Act. 
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' Approved November 7, 1986. 
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LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 5420 (S. 2630): 
HOUSE REPORTS: No. 99-932 (eomm. on Government Operations). 
eONGRESSIONAL REGORD, Vol. 132 (1986): 
Oct. 6, considered and passed House. 
Oct. 18, considered and passed Senate.