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B-188467 1 (1977-11-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadfgm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: - - a 4.' t --: .-ef DECIBION ptLFN r, 4 it rs~frN. o .tz~.is1-t''v U ra~f ~fl VNg(LO THE COMPTOLLE' OF THE UNITEDo !RAL -rA rm WASHINGTON. D.C . POo-AD FILE: B-188467 . Co 0 -I DATE: November 21, 1977 OF: W. Bruce Weaver - Relocation expenses of a Foreign Service Rese:ve employee A Foreign Service Reserve empleyee was transferred from Washington, D.C., to Seattle, Washington, and was erruneously authorized relocation expenses under 5 U.S.C. 5724a and the Federil Travel Regulations. Transfers of Foreign Service employees are governed by For!ign Service Act of 1946, 22 U.S.C. 801, et sj., and Volume 6 of Foreign Affai-s Manual, which do not contain authority for claimed relccaticn expenses. Relocation expenses may not be allowed Lnder 6 FAM 113, Emergency, Unusual, or additional payment, which permits exceptions to Foreign Service Travel Regulations under certain conditions, since Foreig. Service Act of 1946 does not authorize such expenses, and 6 FAM 113 and 6 FAM 121.1-4 may not be used to authorize ocyments not otherwise allowable by law. This action results from the appeal of W. Bruce Weaver of the Claims Division settlement dated January 4, 1977, which denied his claim f',r reimbursement of cercain expen-es incurred in connect:an with his transfer of perman. t duty station. Mr. Weaver, a Foreign S.rvice Reserve employee of the Passport Office, Department of State, was transferred from tlashington, D.C., to Seattle, Washington, effective March 22, 1976. Incident to that transfer he was issued a travel authoriztion dated March 17, 1976, which authorized his relocation expenses pursuanL Lo the Federal Travel Regulations,FPMR 101-7 (May 1973), including travel to seek residence quarters, transportation of household effects, temporary storage of household effects, miscellaneous expense allowance, reimbursement of residence transaction expenses, subsistence while occupying temporary quarters, and travel expenses for the employee and his immediate family to the new duty station. Pursuant to this travel authorization Mr. Weaver completed his relocation to Seattle. On May 20, 1976, the Department of State issued c-n amended travel authorization stating that the March 17, 1976, travel authorization was issued through administrative error. It further stated that the former: I' U.. I I h MATTER DIGEST: .1 .7 P I

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