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B-189826 1 (1978-04-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadfxc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: O\K9 cEcgIFIgg(0ori 1 ~~ * t'~&1 t I FILE: B-189826 DATE:AprilTo 1978 MATTER OF: Sharon R. Raemaeker - Travel Expenses DIGEBT: Claimant paid towing and storage cv.rges on private automtbile owned by daceased employee. At time of his death, im- ployee was on temporary duty returning from training session. Claimant also drove automobile to employee's last duty station. Claim for towing and storage charges is denied since auto- mobile is not baggage within mean- ing of Federal Travel Regulations, para. 2-2.7. Claim for mileage is denied since there is no authority to return deceased employee's privately owned automobile to his residence at his last official station. By a letter dated August 3, 1977, Mr. H. Larry Jordan, an authorized certifying officer of the Department of Agriculture, requested our decision concerning two travel vouchers presented by Ms. Sharon R. aemaeker, an employee of the Farmers Home AdMninistration (FmHA). Ms. Raenmaeker is claiming reimbursement for expenses which she incurred while returning the privately owned automobile of a deceased employee 15 his former duty station. The record indicates that on Novembt: 19, 1976, Mr. Vernon J. Lang, a former FmHA employee, died while returning from an autho- rized training meeting in Helena, Montana. After his death, Mr. Lang's automobile was towed to Dahl's Wrecker and Welding Service, Creat Falls, Montana, where it was placed in storage. The agency subsequently asked Ms. Raemaeker to travel to Great Falls and return Mr. Lang's automobile from there to his duty station at Cut Bank,, Montana. Ms. Raemaeker performed such travel on November 21, 1976. She then submitted a travel voucher claiming reimbursement of $65 for charges paid to Dahl's Wrecker and Welding Service for towing and storage _ Mr. Lang's car. In support of her claim, Ms. Raemaeker citet paragraph 3-2.7 of WWA V 71 I IN COMPTROLLFER CrENERAL C I THE UNITED BTATES V ASHINGTON. D. C. 9iO544 tri

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