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B-198337 1 (1980-05-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadifw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: |3 8'5~1 THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION . . OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D.C. .20548 CIT~3 FILE: B-198337 DATE: May 30, 1%ou MATTER OF: Lorenzo F. Findlay DIGEST: 1. &Claim for refund of costs recovered for excess weight of household goodsshipped in connection with permanent change of official station may not be allowed in absence of evidence showing agency determination to be clearly in error. 2. Question whether and to what extent authorized weights have been exceeded in shipment of house- hold effects of Government employee is considered to be matter primarily for administrative deter- mination and ordinarily will not be questioned in absence of evidence showing it to be clearly in error. 3. Weights of prior or subsequent shipments of house- hold goods are not relevant to determinations of weight of another shipment particularly when shipments have been made over extended period, under different circumstances and include sit- uations involving inclusions and exclusions of household items. An authorized certifying officer of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has furnished our Office a copy of a voucher for $273.84 payable to Lorenzo F. Findlay (Findlay) and requests, pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 82d, an advance decision whether that amount recovered for the shipment of an excess weight of household goods may be refunded. Based upon the review which follows the voucher may not be certified for payment. Pursuant to change of official station in September 1976, the household goods of Findlay were tendered to Trans-American Van Service, Inc. (Trans-American) on or about April 15, 1977, for transportation from Oxon Hill, Maryland, to Aurora, Colorado, under Government bill of

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