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B-189270 1 (1978-03-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadfuf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I I 1~ DECIBIEON MIT FILE: 3-189270 MATTER OF: I THE COMPTROLLER QrNlRAL F T1H LINTITID. ElATES WAIIH!NGTON. D.C. 120540 DATE: March 14, 1978 Albert L. Pemdletou - Shipment of Mobi.e Home and 0'ousehold Goods - Limitation DIGEST: Employee of the National Weather Service, who was transferred from Montana to North Carolina, shippeu a mobile home by Govrnment bill of lading, as provided by FTR para. 2-7.1a. Mobile home was wrecked in Kansas. Employee's parsonal effects were subsequently shipped by Government bill of lading from Kansas to North Carolina. Employee's total allowance for both methods of transportation may not exceed cost which would have bten incurred had either method been used for the entire distance. See 55 Comp. Gen. 526 (1975). By letter of June 2, 1977, Ms. Kathryn M. Toney, an authorized certifying officer with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminiscration, U.S. Department of Coimuerce, reqr'ited an advance decision ragarding the computation of 'he transportation allowance of Mr. Albert L. Pendleton. Mr. Pendleton, ai employee of the National Weathpr Service, was tiansferred without dependents, from Glasgow, Montana, to Cruensboro, North CEtolina. Under the provisions of the Federal Travel Regulations (FPMR 101-7), para. 2-8.2a he was entitled to a maxinum allowance of 5,000 pounds net weight plus temporary storage of household goods. The record shows that the employee elected to ship a mobile home in lieu of household goods, as ptovided by FTR para. 2-7.1a. The mobile home was shipped by Government till of lading (GBL). Enroute in Manhattan, Kansas, the mobile home war wrtclied. Subsequently, the employee's goods and effects weighing 1,000 pounds were placed in temporary storage and then shipped by GBL from Manhattan to Gr'ensboro. Specifically, the certifying officer asks the following question: Under the circumstances, would allewarices be computed at 5,000 pounds plus storage for the total distance and compared to the'actual cost to the Government on the two GBLs or would the allowance be for 5,000 pounds from Glasgow, Mt. to Manhattan, Ks. and then 1,000 pounds plus storage from Kansas to Greensboro, N.C. and compared to the actual cost to the Government? ,j-. -. * W 1 S. -A

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