GSA the big winner in annual approp...

GSA the big winner in annual appropriations handout

Federal construction appropriations are back onward track in fiscal 1999 for a handful of agencies, hard hit last year according to funding declines.

Leading the turn-around pack is the U General Services Administration, whose novel construction allocation jumped to $492 million from naught in fiscal 1998. The GSA also received $668 million for work forward existing structures, up 45 percent from the previous year.

Last year's funding check was the federal government's answer to perceived financial mismanagement by way of the GSA, which