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B-189575 1 (1977-11-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadffo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: CiEU O c7H1 COM*TRoL.L.W oENERAL J WASHINGTON, D. C. 20548 FILE: 8-1S9575 DATE: NOY 1977 MATTER OLF: Lieutenant Colinel Robert A. Schlapper, US.IF DIGEST: 1. The quettion whether and to %hat extent authorizad ssighti hive been exceeded in the sunipiment of house- hold effects by memberu o the uni- formed services is considerad to be a matter primarily for administrative decormination and ordiaMrily will not be questioned in the anaenes of evi- dance showing It to be clearly in error. 2. Evidence of the reight of household effects shpped in a previous perma- nent change of statio (PCS) nove in not relative nor supportive in deter- mdning the weight of household effects shipped in a subsequent PCE move. This action is in response to a letter eated.Mnj 31, 1977, from Lieutenant Colonel Robert A. Schlappui, USAF, Retired, which in effect constitutes an appeal from a uettfement of the Claims tiviaion of this Office dated April 12, 1977. That settlement up- held a determination by the Air Force that the member is indebted to the United States in thy amount of f1,053.79 resulting trom trAnsportation costs asreclated with shipment of member's house- hold effects incident tc e permanent change of station (ICS). In June 1974 the netber was transferred from Andreve Air Force aseo (AFi), Maryland, to Edwards APF, California, and inci- den% to this move the seember's housaebold effects were shipped to his new duty station by commercial rarrier under a Government Bill of Lading. The wetght of member's heurehold effects was certified to he 2.551 lbs. in exrsac of the amount alloyed by regulations for members of the Air Forew of his rank. As a result, the member was charged $1,053,79 for th2 cost of shipping rho excess weight. . dispute haq arisen concerning the computatin upon which t'I excess veight was deterined. The member contends djS I

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