---
kind: "section"
citation: "31 U.S.C. § 754"
title: "31"
title_heading: "Money and Finance"
number: "754"
heading: "Action by the Comptroller General"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/31/754"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — General"
  - "Chapter 7 — Government Accountability Office"
  - "Subchapter IV — Personnel Appeals Board"
---

# §754. Action by the Comptroller General


When the Comptroller General has authority, the Comptroller General promptly shall carry out action the General Accounting Office Personnel Appeals Board[^1] orders under [section 753 of this title](/usc/31/753.md).


## Footnotes

[^1]: See Change of Name note below.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–258, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 902.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 754 | 31:52–3(i). | Feb. 15, 1980, Pub. L. 96–191, § 4(i), 94 Stat. 31. |

The words “to do so” and “corrective” are omitted as surplus. The words “under section 753 of this title” are added for clarity.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Change of Name

General Accounting Office redesignated Government Accountability Office. See section 8 of Pub. L. 108–271, set out as a note under section 702 of this title.