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B-204100 1 (1982-08-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadkoh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 44 ON . - - -i7 - * 'L .9 * -~ I'. THE COMPTPQLLLER OP THE UNITED GIENERAL aTATrF U l WAUH!NINBTON, 0.0, 0054S FILE: B-204100 August16, 1982 MATTER OF: Thotas A. Hughes - Miacellaneous transfer expenes 01WEST: i. An employee who transferred to Washington, D.C. incurred various miscellaneous expenses. The employee may be'reimbursed for the costs of an adapter used to connect An electric clothes dryer, Federal Travel Regulations, FPKJR 101-7.(flay 1973) (FTR) pava. 2-3.lb(1). The employee may also be reitpburased for the cost of a license plate holder because it is closely associated with the state's licensing and Inspection requioments. FTR para. 2-3.lb(6). 2. A transferred enployee, who replaced a wind- shield that failed the state avtomobile inspection, may not be reimbursed. Mit;cel- laneous expenses Art. openses which are inherent in establishing a new residence. The cost of replacing a windshieltd is a cost of maintaining and operating an autom.obile, not of titling and registering that vehicle. In addition, the cost of new stereo speaker wire and charges for new checks are not reimbursable, since they are pernonal expenses. FTR paca. 2-3.la. Mr. John H. Skaggo, an authorized certifying officer of. the Pederal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), has asked whether certain expenses claimed by a transferred employee are reimbursable as miscellaneous relocation expenses.' The expensec are the cost of: (1) iV adapter for an electric dryerf (2) a license plat'& holdur,, (3) an auto- mobile windshield and its installation, (4) stereo spea-ker wire* and (5) new personal check~. We hold that' items [1) and (2) are sufficiently related to ohe establishment of! a new residence to authorize reirrbursement. However, 1the employee nay not be reimbursed for ite.ms (3), (4) and (!) because tk ey are not the type of expenses compensable under the Federal Travel Regulations, FPR 101-7, (May-1973) (FTR), paragraph 2-?.l. ~,2 - a ~ n~fl -. a e~* - - . - -- -- ~ - - - -- /1 p 1 DECISION I j DATE: . li

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