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B-207094 1 (1983-02-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadkws0001 and id is 1 raw text is: OECISION FILE: B-207094 MATTER DIGEST: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 DATE: February 1i, 1983 OF: Consuelo K. Wassink - Time Limitation on Return to Place of Residence In order for employee to be reimbursed expenses incident to return travel to former place of residence, travel must be clearly incidental to separation and should commence within reasonable time thereafter. Employee who resigned position effective October 2, 1981, notified agency on March 2, 1982, of intent to return to former place of residence commencing on September 23, 1983, and who accepted employment at location of resigned position does not meet requirements for reimburse- ment. This decision is in response to a letter from counsel for Ms. Consuelo K. Wassink, a former employee of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Department of the Interior. Ms. Wassink is appealing a BLM decision disallowing her request for prospective authorization for reimbursement of travel expenses and transportation of household goods for return travel to Boulder, Colorado, commencing September 23, 1983. The BLM denied her request for the reason that her return travel would not be clearly incidental to her separation as required by 28 Comp. Gen. 285 (1948). For the reasons stated below, the disallowance by BLM is sustained. Ms. Wassink was given an appointment by BLM effective June 21, 1975, as a Public Information Officer with the Alaska Outer Continental Shelf Office (OCS), Anchorage, Alaska. At the time of her appointment she was a resident of Boulder, Colorado. She was authorized travel and trans- portation expenses from Boulder, Colorado, with return rights, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. S 5722 (1976), and the imple- menting regulations currently contained in the Federal Travel Regulations, FPMR 101-7 (September 1981) (FTR). In her appeal, Ms. Wassink states, through counsel, that she believes that her notice of intent to exercise

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