TO HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90M00005R001300060028-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 28, 2012
• Sequence Number: 28
• Publication Date: January 21, 1988
• Content Type: MEMO

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Public Law 100-202, which provides continuing appropria-
tions for Fiscal Year 1988, contains a provision directly
affecting Executive Branch printing activities. The provi-
sion, which can be found in Section 309 of the Legislative
Branch Appropriations Act, mandates that, with a few excep-
tions, printing products and services procured from commer-
cial sources must be obtained through the U.S. Government
Printing Office (GPO).
Enactment of this section was prompted by the recent
change in the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) (see
Federal Register Vol. 52, No. 54, pages 9036-9038, March 20,
1987) that would permit departments and agencies to circum-
vent GPO. The Joint Committee on.'Printing believes that such
actions would have been both fiscally unsound and injurious
to the free flow of information to the American people.
Accordingly, this section was designed to.~maintain the status
that existed prior to the issuance of the FAR change, and
preserve GPO's central role in the production and dissemina-
tion of Federal information.
For your information, I have enclosed copies of the new
statutory provision and the corresponding report language. I
hope it will help you in developing and implementing an
effective and efficient printing program for your agency.
The Joint Committee is available to assist you and members of
your staff in that effort.
Sincerely,
Frank Annunzio
Chairman
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 NEW STATUTORY PROVISION
Sz 809. (a) NOW of the funds apppropriated for fiscal year 1988
by this Act or any other law'
aw maybe obligated or expended by any
entity of the executive branch for the procurement from commercial
sources of any printing related to the production of Government
publications (including forms), unless such procurement is by or
through the Government Printing Office.
(b) Subsection (a) does not apply to (1) individual printing orders
costing not more than $1,000, if the work is not of a continuing or
repetitive nature, (2) printing for the Central Intelligence Agency,
the Defense Intelligence Agency,, or the National Security Agency, or
(8) printing from commercial sources that is specifically authorized
by law or is of a kind that has not been routinely procured by or
through the Government Printing Office.
(c) As used in this section, the term " tinting" means the process
of composition, platemaking, presswork binding, and microform,
and the end items of such processes.
ACCOMPANYING REPORT LANGUAGE
The conference agreement includes a: provision which requires.
executive branch agencies who wish to procure printing services
from commercial sources to do so through the Government Print-
ing Office. Exceptions are provided for a number of printing prac-
tices and activities that for reasons of necessity, practicality, effi-
ciency, or statutory authority have been, and should continue to be,
performed other than through the Government Printing Office.
The overall intent is to maintain the status that existed prior to
the implementation of the rece9t change in the Federal Acquisition
Regulation (see Federal Register Vol. 52, No. 54, pages 9036-9038,
March 20, 1987). This provision revises a provision inserted by the
Senate.
Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/08/28: CIA-RDP90M00005R001300060028-7
Declassified and Approved For Release 2012/08/28: CIA-RDP90M00005R001300060028-7