IMPACT OF POSTAL BUILDING PROGRAM

ON FEDERAL AGENCIES

(92-13)

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON

INVESTIGATIONS AND OVERSIGHT

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NINETY-SECOND CONGRESS

COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS

JOHN A. BLATNIK, Minnesota, Chairman

Rod Kreger, Acting Administrator, General Services Administration;

accompanied by Herman Barth, Deputy General Counsel, General

Services Administration - -

Arthur F. Sampson, Deputy Administrator for Special Projects and
Commissioner of Public Buildings Service, General Services_Ad-
ministration; accompanied by Wilbur H. Sanders, Deputy Com-
missioner for Public Buildings Service, GSA; and Herman W. Barth,
Deputy General Counsel, GSA...

General Accounting Office:

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The Honorable Elmer B. Staats, Comptroller General of the United ar
States; accompanied by Gregory J. Ahart, Deputy Director, Civil
Division, General Accounting Office; Milton J. Socolar, Deputy
General Counsel, General Accounting Office; and Michael Zimmer-
man, Supervisory Civil Engineer, General Accounting Office----

U.S. Postal Service:

Henry Lehne, Assistant Postmaster General-Facilities, U.S. Postal

Service; accompanied by Frederick Batrus, Assistant Postmaster

General-Engineering and Logistics, U.S. Postal Service; Robert E.

Isaacs, Technical Advisor for Construction Programing, U.S.

Postal Service; and James H. French, Deputy Assistant General

Counsel, Real Property and Procurement Division, U.S. Postal

Service_

Office of Management and Budget:

Richard P. Nathan, Assistant Director of the Office of Management

and Budget; accompanied by Mr. Charles E. Benton, Assistant

Chief of the General Government Programs Division of the Office

of Management and Budget_

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers:

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265

Brig. Gen. George A. Rebh, Chief of the Corps of Engineers,

Postal Construction Support Office, Department of the Army;

accompanied by Woodrow Berge, Director of Real Estate ------ 367, 375

LIST OF EXHIBITS

1. GSA and Post Office correspondence relating to projects from which

Post Office withdrawn..

2. GSA Lease Construction Legislative Proposal.
3. GSA letter to Hon. Carl Albert, Speaker of the House, dated February
12, 1971, with enclosure...

4. (a) Letter from Assistant Postmaster General Henry Lehne to GSA
Commissioner Sampson dated February 23, 1971, and Mr. Sampson's
reply dated March 12, 1971. (b) Letter from Mr. Lehne to Mr.
Sampson dated May 5, 1971. (c) Letter from GSA Administrator
Robert L. Kunzig to Director George P. Shultz, Office of Manage-
ment and Budget, dated May 13, 1971. (d) Letter from Mr. Robert .
E. Isaacs, Post Office Department to GSA Commissioner Sampson
dated June 17, 1971. (e) Memo by I. E. Friedlander, GSA, dated
June 28, 1971*_

5. Account of total real property leased by GSA and Post Office Depart-
ment between January 1, 1961 and 1970-

*Retained in Subcommittee file.

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