mr. dodaro. i wanted to talk to you about one of the categories that you've added to the high risk list and that's the revenues from oil and gas leases. according to your report, that is actually one of the largest incomes, nontaxed income sources of the government about $9 billion in 2009. and just a couple days ago you wrote an op-ed in the "new york times" you wrote in fiscal years in 2005 and 2006 that most of the data from the oil and gas companies was erroneous from millions of unexpected fees. do you know how long the oil and gas companies have been misreporting their production. >> we did update that new york 2009 and found still continued data and inaccuracies in the system. >> we looked at interior's efforts recently to verify the protection numbers of oil and gas production and found problems with that as well. the other point i would add on this is that the assessment system generally hasn't been looked at in the last 25 years and we had made recommendations there because when the fed

mr. dodaro thank you for being here. i know lester congressmen were raising the debt ceiling and empowered the gao office for the duplication of any activities or efforts of the federal government that might be cost savings and that report is forthcoming. can you give us a preliminary like a trailer or a snake review of what we might anticipate? >> we have identified about 34 different areas of overlap and duplication for consideration by the congress, and they touch several hundred programs and virtually all federal departments and agencies. now we also as an added bonus are including in the report about another 50 cost savings opportunities for congress to consider and also revenue enhancements, where there is abilities to tackle what is now an estimated tax gap between taxes collected, about $290 billion. >> could to quantify how many we are looking at in terms of duplication? >> we don't have, and we will discuss in in the reports the limitations as congressman kucinich talk about, some of the baseline information is

mr. dodaro, you talk about the access -- the excess of real property we have. do you have any suggestions about the leasing of those to enhance the revenue side of the budget? not facility by facility -- >> we pushed to come up with a plan. there are rules in the budget process that complicated the decision. we recommend those be dealt with. we think it is management's responsibility to decide that. >> thank you. i see that my time is up. >> thank you. the gentleman from massachusetts. >> thank members of the panel for your testimony today. this committee has conducted a lot of oversight about the contingency contract in iraq and afghanistan, including the use of private security contractors. last year when i was chairing the subcommittee on national security and foreign policy, we record -- we uncovered evidence of a trucking contractor that was getting billions of dollars for protection. you'll contracts were going to countries -- going to companies that the federal government knew nothing about. do you think we need to have improvement of the federal contrac