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                             VHE  COVIPTV&ILLER GENERAL
DECISIONs THE UNITEJ STATEO
                             WASHINGTONg D. C DO54U


FILE: P-187060


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DATE'   October 15, 176


OF:  Jeffrey S. Kassel - Settlement of
     Unxpired Lease

 1.  Trarsferred employee paW lessor
     of rented apartment ontire balance
     of rent due for unexpired term of
     seven months immediately upon trara-
     fer.,Five months later, employee
     removed household goods from apart..
     ment and relet premises, fRoimbursement
     of rent paid for five months between
     transfer and date of sublease may
     not be reimbursed becuuse FT para. 2-6,2h
     (May 1973) requires employee to make
     reasonable efforts tn compromise out-
     starling obligation, and employee
     failed to make such efforts,


           2.  Transferred employee who left hcuse-
               hold goods in flrrer residence for
               five months prior to reletting apart-
               ment may not be reimbursed for temporary
               storage since placement or retention
               of employee's goods at his residene
               may not serve as the basis for reinbursement.

     This action is in response to a request dated July 26, 1976
from the Honorable Glen E. Pommerening, Assistant Attorney General
for Administration, concerning a voucher submitted by Mr. Jeffrey S.
Kassel, a former employee of the Departrvent of Justice, Bureau of
Prisons, for reimbursement of reiidence transaction expenses incurred
incident to a permanent change of station,

     The record indicates that the claimant, Mr. Kassel, entered
on duty with the Bureau of Prisons as a staff psychologist by
transfer from the Veterans Admnistration on January 20, 1975.
Incident to the transfer, a travel authorization was isaued
authorizing travel from Waukegan, Illinois to Morgantown, West
Virginia and advancing $2,600 to Wr. Kassel therefor. At the
time of the transfer, Mr. Kassel had been occupying rented
quarters for which he paid $195 per month. On January 20 1975,
he paid his lessor, Hr. Paul A. Hansen, $1,365 for the period from
February 1, 1975 through August 31, 1975, representing the un-
expired term of his lease* Five months later, on June 20, 1976,


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