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B-199339 1 (1981-08-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadjrn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U. • DECISION FILE: B-199339 THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED 8TATEB WASH INGTON. 0. C. 20548 DATE: AUG 2 5 1981 MATTER OF: Payments for quarters maintenance and operation expenses from salary deductions for quarters Forest Service may transfer amounts of payroll deductions for use of Government quarters to separate appropriation accounts used to fund maintenance and operation of such quarters, even though salary expenses may be paid from several different accounts for a single employee. 5 U.S.C. § 5911(c) does not preclude consolidation of various salary deductions for administrative convenience in making payment§ for maintenance expenses. 59 Comp. Gen. 235 (1980) modified. The Director, Office of Fiscal and Accounting Management, Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, requests clarification of our decision 59 Comp. Gen. 235 (1980), concerning the proper appropriation to be credited with payroll deductions for use of Government quarters. The specific inquiry is whether the Forest Service may credit the amount of the deductions to the appropria- tion account that funds the maintenance and ooeration services for quarters and facilities, rather than the appropriations to which the employee salaries are charged. Te conclude that there is authority to credit the maintenance and operation appropriation account customarily used to fund such services. 59 Comp. Gen. 235, supra, is clarified. In our 1980 decision, we noted and agreed with the position of the Office of Management and Budget that deductions from employees for maintenance and operation expenses of Government quarters occupied by them should be treated as reimbursements (rather than refunds of in-kind 'alary ;a-~ents) to be credited to the apprcpriation or fund account that provides the service under the authority of 5 U.S.C. § 5911(c). That section provides that payroll deductions for these expenses shall remain in the applicable appropriation or fund. Because the appropriations from h. ich Forest Service salaries are paid are also available for the payment of operation and maintenance expenses of Government quarters, we interpreted section 5911(c) as allowing retention of deductions in the salary appropriations for use in defraying operation and maintenance expenses. The alterna- tive, absent section 5911(c), would have been deposit of the deduc- tions in the Treasury, pursuant to 31 U.S.C. S 484. DIGEST: &J.Z

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