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B-195245 1 (1979-09-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadhpa0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 11j3qj o Et THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D. C. 20548 FILE: B-195245 MATTER OF: Milton G. Parsons DIGEST: DATE: Septenber 12, 1979 Air Force employee in Canal Zone, who was entitled to travel and transportation costs to home of record, transferred to Forest Service in Oregon. Air Force payments of travel and transportation expenses to new station before effective date of Forest Service appointment were proper to extent that they did not exceed constructive costs of travel and transportation to home of record. Principles of 46 Comp. Gen. 628 are not limited to transfers within the Department of Defense. This action is in response to a request by the Secretary of Agriculture for an advance decision concerning the [authority of t-he Depatment- efthe Air Force to pay the travel and transportation costs involved in thbe permanent change of station transfer of Mr. Milton G. Parsons. -J'4 70 -5 While Mr. Parsons was employed at Howard Air Force Base, Canal Zone, he accepted an offer to transfer to the Siuslaw National Forest, )L?0oa.3Y U.S. Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, Corvallis, Oregon. Mr. Parsons served in the Canal Zone under an agreement providing for return transportation to his home of record in Bozeman, Montana, and he satisfactorily completed his tour of duty with the Air Force. The Air Force initially agreed to pay Mr. Parsons' travel costs and issued a travel authorization dated January 23, 1978. His travel was to begin on February 20 and the reporting date at his new station was indicated as Febriary 26. The Forest Service issued a travel order authorizing allowable relocation expenses not covered by the Air Force order. That order also showed February 26, 1978, as the re- porting date. Subsequently, after Mr. Parsons' family had moved pursuant to the order, the Air Force decided it was not authorized to pay the travel costs. While it paid the relocation expenses of Mr. Parsons and his dependents, ,it separated Mr. Parsons on February 20, 1978, and requested the Forest Service reimburse it for the expenses already paid. Based on its interpretation of 5 U.S.C. 2 5724(e) (1976) and paragraph C1052-2b(1)(a), volume 27of the Joint. Travel Regulations

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