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B-188213 1 (1977-12-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadfje0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I CECISION FIL'E: B-188713 I DATE. Dtceber 12D 197 MATTER OF: W. G. McDaniel - 'elocation Expenses DIGEST: Employee may be reimbursed for cost ofr Surveyor's Report incurred in connection wi: h purchase of home at new duty station a Depasi tment of Housing and Urban Developa- uent area office rk. advised that Surveyor's Report is expense customarily incurrsd by purchaser incident to real estate transaction. In addition, claim for teimbursement for costs'of plat preparation and land location survey is expressly allowable under par&. 2-6.2c of Federal Travel Regulations. This matter concerns the request of Mr. Robert E. Reid, 'Jr., Chief, Payroll, Travel and Commercial Accounta Branch, Office of the Controller, Energy Research and Development Administration. (ERDA), for a decision as to whether Mr. W. G. McDaniel, an ERDPA employee, may be reimbursed for expenses in the amount of $110 for a location survey, plat, and a Surveyor's Report paid in con- nection with the purchase of a residence incident to a change of official duty station. The record shows that iW. McDaniel purchased a home'in Frederick, Maryland, incident to his transfer in 1975 from Rock Island, Illinois, to Washington, D.C. In connection with the purchase of the residence Mr. McDaniel incurred the costs of-a location sur- voy, plat, aMd Surveyor's Report in the total amo'unt of $110. Mr. McDaniel was infoh-ned by the firm which conducted the location survey, that the Surveyor'n Report was a special form which was prepared only upon the specific request of an attorney or bank and that tccordingly a separate charge of $35 for the Report was made. The Surveyor's Report was prepared upon the request of an attorney because it was required by the bank. The agency felt tht Mr. McDaniel's claim for reimbursement of the $35 fee for the Surveyor's Report should be disallowed on the basis thatit was a special and not a customary charge. In addition ERDA disallowed the entire $110 claim, because Mr. McDaniel did not furnish a breakdown of the claim. -j I N I~ K x:KY I' I. 'cc, In 'C' ~0 b 4 I THE COMPTILLa. )JURAL Y'.);OF TH UNITW... STATUE WA MINGITCN. D.C. 30548

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