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B-210687 1 (1983-07-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadlfo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: T!-2~ I :r-.. 7 N?71 LiI, T ..Zi FILE: B-210687 _A-iY: i- T6, 193 VAT- AlI OF: Bert W. Rust 1. Incient to a transfer of duty station, the employee shipped household goods exceeding the statutory maximum of 11,000 pounds by 4,800 pounds. He has repaid the Government for only 2,000 pounds of the excess because the oral estimate he received from the carrier's agent was only 13,000 pounds, and he did not receive a later written esti- mate of 15,000 pounds. Since the maximum payable by the Government under 5 U.S.C. S 5724(a) is 11,000 pounds regardless of extenuating circum- stances, the employee must repay the cost of the entire excess, less the shipping cost of any professional books and papers properly proven to have been included with the household goods. 2. Professional books and papers included within a shipment of household goods may be an administrative expense of the employing agency exclusive of the 11,000-pound maximum weight limitation payable by the Government for the transportation of household goods. But professional books and papers must, in accordance with para. 2-8.2a-1 of the FTR, be inventoried with the proper weight determination and certified by the appropriate official at the new duty station as a necessary shipment of items that the Government would other- wise have to obtain at its expense. In this advance decision requested by the Deputy Comptroller of the National Bureau of Standards, Department of Commerce, we hold that the employee, Mr. Bert W. Rust, must repay the Government the cost of shipping his household goods which exceeds the cost of shipping the 11,000-pound weight limit prescribed in Q) ),tp Z,4 -

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