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B-198051 1 (1980-06-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadihh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 0,.LER C THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D. C. 20549 5V. FILE: B-198051 June 2, 1980 MATTER OF: John W. B1 on, Jr.- ravel and trans- portation expenses from overseas post of duty DIGEST: Army employee failed to fulfill minimum service period at his overseas post of duty incident to transfer to Netherlands when he accepted position with National Park Service in Peninsula, Ohio. Park Service authorized payment of transfer expenses but later questioned propriety since employee did not complete minimum service period with Army. Where employee transferred without a break in service and executed a new transfer agreement, payment of employee's travel and transportation expenses may be paid by Park Service because it has statutory authority to do so for transferred employ- ees and its obligation to pay employee's travel and transportation expenses is separate from that of the initial agency the employee transferred from. The National Park Service (Park Service) United States Department of the Interior, requests our decision on the legality of its paying the transfer costs of an employee who violated his service agreement with another agency incident to an overseas assignment. Mr. James L. Ryan, an Authorized Certifying Of- ficer with the Park Service reports that Mr. John W. Blanton, Jr. was serving a 3-year tour of duty overseas beginning July 31, 1979, as a Real Estate Officer with the Army Real Estate Agency, Shinnen, Netherlands. After having spent less than 1 year in that position, Mr. Blanton applied and was accepted for a position with the Park Service's Cuyahoga Valley Land Acquisition Office, Peninsula, Ohio, effective February 24, 1930. The Park Service advised him by teletye ,on January 24, 1980, that it would pay moving expenses 41

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