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B-189566 1 (1977-12-29)

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                    f   *THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL
ECIUICN                           THE UNVTo aTATEE
                             WASHINGTON, 0.C. 2054U


FILE:  9-189566


DATE:   Dee~r   29, 1977


MATTER OF: Richard Stamm   - Transportation of Mobile Home


DIGEE3T:


Transferred employee shipped 2,950 pounds
of household goods separate from mobile
home because carrier required reduction
of weight before moving mobile home over
icy roads.  Since employee was reimbursed
for transportation of household effects he
ray not be reimbursed for shipment of
mobile home.  Paragraph 2-7.1a of FTR
limits reimbursement to either trans-
portation of household effects or shipment
of mobile home.  There is no provision for
allowing both.


     Thi. action is at, the request of Mrs. Mary M. Rydquist, an
Authorized certifying officer for the Bureau of Land Management,
Department of Interior.  Mrs. Rydquiat requests our decision as to
whether Mr. Richard Stam, an employee of the Bureau of Land
Management, may be reimbursed for the movement of his mobile home
in addition to the reimbursement he has already receive:! for the
transportatior. of his household effects.

     Incident to a permanent chinge of station, Mr. Stamm arranged
to have his ioilile home shipped bn January 12, 1977, from his
former duty stittojin  Idaho Falls, Idaho, to his new duty station
at Soda Springs, Idaho. Due to bad road conditions, the mobile
home transporter required that tt weight of the' mobile home be
reduced by removing some of the heavier items of hout hold guodp,
which apparently weighed 2,950 poulds. It is reported that
M.  Stamm was required to move, at his own expense, the household
goods which were removed from the trailer.

     Mr. Stamm !as-rcimbursed $424,80 by the Bureau of Lahd
Management, representing the commuted rate for moving 2,950 pounds
of hounehold effects. However, jMrs. Rydquist states that they
were unablc to reimburse Mr. Stamm for the cost of transporting
his mobile home ($254.62) in view of the provisions of Federal


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