FDA deadline for user fee layoffs is uncertain, GAO tells Senate Labor Committee.
Executive Summary
FDA USER FEE CARRY-OVER EFFECT ON OPERATIONS UNCERTAIN, GAO SAYS in a report to Senate Labor & Human Resources Committee Chairman Jeffords (R-Vt.) released Aug. 5. "Because FDA has developed only very preliminary estimates for the cost of closing down the user fee program...it is not possible to estimate how long FDA could continue operations into fiscal year 1998 using funds carried over from fiscal year 1997," the General Accounting Office said in the July 21 report.
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