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B-194852(HID) 1 (1980-03-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabjrz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, O.C. =US In reply refer to March 12, 1980 B-194852 (HID) The Honorable Bob Bergland The Secretary of Agriculture Dear Mr. Secretary: This is in response to your letter dated May 2, 1979, concerning whether the below paragraph, if included in employees' agreements with the Forest Service at the time of assignment to the Agency for International Development, would permit the employees to be reimbursed for relocation expenses incurred at the old official station once the new official station is known and travel orders are issued: It is the intent of the Forest Service to transfer you from your current official station upon comple- tion of this foreign assignment. However, you cannot be assured reimbursement of relocation expenses in- curred until a travel order is issued moving you from your current official station to a new official station. Certain expenses, such as househunting trips if incurred before issuance of authorization for transfer, cannot be reimbursed. The Forest Service is specifically concerned with those cases in which employees are transferred back to the United States from overseas to new stations in different locations than their duty stations upon transfer to overseas locations. We have been required to disallow real estate expenses in these cases because of the language in 5 U.S.C. § 5724a(a)(4), which prohibits reimbursement for the sale or purchase of an employee's residence incident to a transfer between the United States and overseas areas. Dr. Thomas W. Hill, B-187289, November 2, 1976; John S. Treadwell, B-192659, February 14, 1979. Specifically, 5 U.S.C. § 5724a(a) (1976) provides for reimbursement of real estate expenses, as follows:

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