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B-184091 1 (1975-11-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadcrr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTRuLLER GENERAL DECISION OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D.C. 20546 VNITED tKOV 2 E.~~ 7 6'7 5 MATTER DIGEST: OF: Ronnie G. Jones - Reimbursement of Expenses of Moving Household Goods in connection with Transportation of Mobile Home Employee moved mobile home from old to new duty station pursuant to transfer under Federal Travel Regulations para. 2-7.1a (May 1973). He is not entitled to reimburse- ment for expenses of moving household goods not in mobile home since 5 U.S.C. § 5724(b) and FTR para. 2-7.1a provide that reimbursement for transportation of mobile home is in place of that for transportation of household goods. Mr. H. A. Anderson, a regional administrator with the Federal Highway Administration, Department of Transportation, requests an advance decision on the propriety of paying the reclaim voucher of Mr. Ronnie G. Jones for expenses incurred in moving household goods in connection with the transportation of a mobile home. The goods were transported incident to Mr. Jones' permanent change of duty station from the Mississippi Division of the Federal Highway Administration to the Indiana Division in March 1975. The record shows that Mr. Jones was issued Travel Order No. 05-00-108, dated February 6, 1975, and he has been reimbursed for the cost of transporting a mobile home from Mississippi to Indiana. However, his claim for transportation of household goods not shipped in the mobile home was denied. Mr. Jones states in his reclaim that items such as books, clothing, canned food, and a freezer could not be shipped in the mobile home due to the possibility of strucbral damage to the mobile home and the inability to obtain insurance if such items were shipped in the mobile home. Section 5724 of title 5, United States Code (1970), provides in pertinent part as follows: (b) Under such regulations as the President may prescribe, an employee who transports a house trailer or mobile dwelling inside the continental United States, inside Alaska, or between the continental United States and Alaska, for use as a residence, and who otherwise would be entitled to transportation of household goods and personal FILE: 3-184091 DATE:,

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