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B-199264 1 (1980-10-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadiqm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: D~~~ci ~ O 0N 0F THE U N ITED0 STATES LvV VASH N GON. .0 C. 20548 FILE: /-99264 ATE: October 22, 1980 MATTER OF: Dr. Geof rejTay1or- LReimbursement t-e-.-s-t- in-g-aminti~t of costs for ocean transporta- tion of household 4ood. DIGEST: 1. Rule authorizing reimbursement to employees for costs of transporting household goods from over- seas to conterminous United States on actual ex- pense basis,-without limitation by Government's cost had shipment been made on Government bill of lading,. does not apply to ocean freight charges where transportation performed on foreign flag ship. B-183053, March 12, 1975, distinguished. 2. Where allowable household goods are shipped on foreign flag vessel by agent of visiting scien- tist, at time when American ships were available and in absence of showing of necessity, section 901 of the Merchant Marine Act of 1936, 46 U.S.C. 1241(a) (1976) precludes Comptroller General from making allowance for any expenses incurred through use of foreign.ship. This decision concerns Dr. Geoffrey Taylor' sppeal from our Claims Division's settlement'of February 22, 1980.. The Center for Disease Controj Public Health Service, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare by letter of June 3,1977, forwarded Dr. Taylor's voucher of March 15, 1977, for $2,994.90 to our Claims.Division, which disallowed theclaim.,(file Z-2744143) and returned it to the Public Health Service with instrutions toacnl- lect $2,999.04 of the $3,757.60 that had already been paid to the claimantc The voucher had been presented to the Public Health Service as a reclaim for $2,994.90, that had been dis- allowed by the agency when it considered Dr. Taylor's original voucherof July 21 , 1976 , for $8,186.06. That voucher was presented for reimbursement of expenses in- curred in~ connection with travel and transportation from' Cheshire, England, to Morgantown, West Virginia By letter of January 22 1976, he Pational nsti- tute for Occupational Safety and Health, Center for

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