AUTHORITY TO RENDER DECISIONS.

SEC. 204. AUTHORITY TO RENDER DECISIONS. Section 3529(b) of title 31, United States Code, is amended— (1) by striking “The Comptroller General shall” and inserting “(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), the Comptroller General shall”; and (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph: “(2) A decision requested under this section concerning a function transferred to or vested in the Director of the Office of Management and Budget under section 211(a) of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1996 (109 Stat. 535), as in effect immediately before the effective date of title II of the General Accounting Office Act of 1996, or under this Act, shall be issued— 110 STAT. 3846 “(A) by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, except as provided in subparagraph (B); or “(B) in the case of a function delegated by the Director to another agency, by the head of the agency to which the function was delegated.”.