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B-159261 1 (1973-10-17)

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41 ,                  COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES
                                WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548


     B-159261                                     Octobe4 17, 1973



     Mrs. Marjorie E. LaVeille
     Apt. 307, The Tamalpais
     501 Via Casitas
     Greenbrae, California 94904

     Dear Mrs. LaVeille:

          Further reference is made to your letter of June 1, 1973, requesting
     review of a settlemnot by our Transportation and Claims Division, dated
     1.Iay 14, 1973, which disallowed your claim for $393.71, representing rein-
     bursement of nontemporary storage and associated expenses incurred in
     connection with the storage of your personal effects during the period
     August 9, 1957, to September 8, .972.

          A review of the record indicates you placed approximately 250 pounds
     of your personal effects into contuercial storage in August 1957, when you
     were first eriployed as a Department of Defense (DOD) overseas school
     teacher and assigned to Okinawa. We note you transferred to Darmstadt,
     Germany, in 1960 and to Augsburg, Germany, in 1962. Subsequently, you
     transferred to Karauursel, Turkey, in 1964, thence to Kenitra, Morocco,
     in 1965, to Okinawa in 1967, to Japan in 1968, to Nuremberg, Germany, in
     1971. You retired in 1972 and returned from Nuremberg to San Francisco,
     California, to .:.aide after separation. Your personal effects remained
     in storage in Senttle, Washington, throughout this entire period of your
     employment overseas.

     _    Your clain v's first received in our Office on January 15, 1973.
     In this comecticn, 31 U.S.C. 1la provides as follows:

          §7Ta. Same- limitation of ti-ne on claims and demands.
               (1) Every clai:i or demand (except a claim or
          demand by any State, Territory, possession or the
          District of Columbia) against the United States cog-
          nizable by the General Accounting Office under sec-
          tions 71 and 236 of this title shall be forever barred
          unless such claim, bearing the signature and address
          of the clailant or of an authorized agent or attorney,
          shall be received in said office within ten full years
          after the date such claim first accrued * * *.




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