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B-195652 1 (1980-12-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabjxz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -I . /., COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 IN REPLY RE TO: B-195652 December 24, 1980 Mr. H. William Menard Director, Geological Survey Department of the Interior Reston, Virginia 22092 Dear Mr. Menard: This is in response to your letter of September 2, 1980 (file reference EGS-Mail Stop 442), concerning our decision B-195652, April 1, 1980, on the claim of James C. Bowers, an employee of the U.S. Geological Survey. It is requested in your letter that Mr. Bowers' real estate expense disallowance in the amount of $2,727.75 be considered for settlement under the Meritorious Claims Act. The Meritorious Claims Act provides that when a claim is filed in this Office that may not be lawfully adjusted by use of an appropriation theretofore made, but which claim in the judgment of the Comptroller General contains such elements of legal liability or equity as to be deserving of the consideration of Congress, it shall be submitted to the Congress with recommendations. The remedy is an extraordinary one and its use is limited to extraordinary circumstances. The cases reported for the consideration of the Congress generally involve equitable circumstances of an unusual nature and which are unlikely to constitute a recurring problem, since to report to the Congress a particular case when similar equities exist or are likely to arise with respect to other claimants would constitute preferential treatment over others in similar circumstances. Mr. Bowers' situation is not unique. As pointed out in the decision B-195652, April 1, 1980, at least three other cases have been considered in which the facts were very similar to the facts in Mr. Bowers' case. The immediate family requirement is statutory and although the state of the economy and particularly

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