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B-185076 1 (1977-03-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadedx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 14 Charles Browne THE COMPTNOLLUN WNERAL WASHINGTON. 0. 0. 0548 FI E: 5-185076 DATE; Ibrch 219 197 MATTER OF: asal Estate Commission Scrip - Department of Agriculture DIGEST: Department of Agriculture requests instuction Va disposition of excess scrip which can be used to reduce real estat commissions in the Eanseapoila area. Department is advised that scrip can be used by Its employees or trans- ferred to other Goernment agencias for use by their employees or disposed of in any other manner in interest of Government. .By a letter dated October 6, 1976, Mt. J. P. Bolduc, Assistant ascretery for Adtinistration, U.S. Department of Agriculture, requested our advice concerning the disposition of scrip which can be used In partial payment of real estate commisions in the Minnampolis, Minnesota, area. The scrip wasgiven to thm Department of Agriculture by aploTeas previously statio1edin 'theMinneapolic area with the Agricultiral. Stabteissiont.,d Conservaion Service (ASCS), Eimnaapolin Commodity Office. The employees were transferred to other AECS offices when the Nisneapolis office was closed. At the tim of ihe transfer the employees were reimbursed for the cost of transfer expenses in accordance with the Federal Travel Regulattons (FMR 101-7, May 1973), including real estate commissions on the sale of their homas. - ;Subsequent to the-trmnsitra, a clasa-action suit in U.S. District Court involving an anti-trust challenge to fixed real estate coissions was' resolved by a settlement. Under the settliment agreement parsons, who had recently sold houses in the Minneapolia area and paid a fixed realisatate commision, received airefund in the form of scrip. Thejscrip can be used as partial payment of future real estate commissions in the Minneapolis area. The. ASCS employees formerly stationed in Minneapolis gave their scrip to th. Department of Agriculture. In his letter Mr. Bolduc:indicated that the Department received appioximately $6,100 worth of rwip. He itated that the Department anticipated that approximately $2,000 worth of scrip may be used by five ASCS employees who have not yet sold their homes in the b I1 C 4

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