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B-193445 1 (1979-08-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadhls0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DECISION ( )~s ~ \~; ~i ~s~1 ~vK~ L n~ ~- THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D .C. 20548 FILE: B-193445 DATE: August 1, 1979 MATTER OF: Department of the Air Force DIGEST: 1. Common carrier is not liable for costs of X-raying shipment of rocket motors at destination to determine whether they were damaged while in possession of common carrier for transportation. 2. Settlements of Comptroller General are not decisions and are not considered precedents for future disbursements of public money. 3. Under GAO regulations requests for reconsideration of Claims Division settlements must be submitted by head of agency concerned. This decision involves the liability of a common carrierJ for the costs of X-raying a shipment of rocket motors at desti- nation to determine whether they were damaged while in the possession of the common carrier for transportation. It responds to two letters dated October 4, 1978, file ACFTF/7654, from the Headquarters:Air Force Accounting and Finance Center (Finance Center) requesting reconsideration of two Certificates of Settle- ment dated September 8, 1978, in which our Claims Division allowed two claims of Pacific Intermountain Express (PIE) involving those X-ray costs, each for $3,821.34. We affirm the two Claims Division settlements and decide that the common carrier is not liable for the X-ray costs. We also advise the Secretary of the Air Force that under our regu- lations requests for reconsideration of Claims Division settle- ments must be submitted by the head of the agency concerned. In December 1974, Government drivers operating Government tractors transported jet thrust units (rocket motors) on Government-owned, multi-stage trailers equipped with air bag suspension systems from McClellan Air Force Base, California, to Sacramento, California, where the motors were delivered on the trailers to the facilities of PIE, a motor common carrier, for delivery to Hill Air Force. Base, Utah. Four motors, weighing 108,000 pounds, were delivered to the carrier on Government bill of lading (GBL) No. K-5155422 on December 12, 1974, and four, weighing 110,000 pounds, were delivered on GBL No. K-5155459 on December 13, 1974.

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