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B-207030 1 (1983-09-21)

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                     - ~rTHR COMPTRI2LLER GENCRAL
  DIECISION               CIS THE UNITED       STATES
                    SWASHINGTON, 0. C. 2054r4




  FILE:   B-207030              DATE: Sptenber 21, l9p'

  MATTER OF:     Robert E. Demmert - Travel and
                 Transportation Expenses - Temporary
                 Appointment - Alaska
  DIGEST:

        Temporary employee was offered and
        accepted a permanent position with the
        Forest Service in Alaska while serving in
        California. The appointment was deferred
        due to hiring freeze of January 1981. He
        was then offered a temporary position in
        Alaska pending lifting of freeze. He
        resigned his position, had a break in ser-
        vice from March 14 to 25, 1981, and
        traveled at his own expense to accept the
        temporary appointment. After hiring
        freeze was lifted., employee was again
        offered permanent appointment. He
        accepted and his temporary appointment was
        converted to a permanent one. Claimant,
        because of break in service, may be reim-
        bursed travel and transportation expenses
        as a new appointee in traveling to accept
        a temporary position at a post of duty
        outside the continental United States
        under 5 U.S.C. § 5722 (1976), even though
        travel authorization has not been issued.


     This decision is in response to a request by
Ms. Anita R. Smith, Authorized Certifying Officer, National
Finance Center, United States Department of Agriculture
(USDA), for an advance decision as to whether a travel
voucher in the amount of $826.84, representing travel and
transportation expenses incurred by Mr. Robert E. Demmert,
an employee of the Forest Service, USDA, may be certified
for payment. For the reasons hereafter stated, the voucher
may be certified for payment.

     According to the record, Mr. Demmert was originally
employed as a seasonal employee, Park Technician
(Interpretation), at the Death Valley Monument, Death
Valley, California, by the National Park Service. He was
offered, and accepted, a permanent career-conditional


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