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B-226637 1 (1987-08-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmub0001 and id is 1 raw text is: The Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matterof- Andrew A. Frederick File: B-226637 Date: August 3, 1987 DIGEST Where employee requested transfer to the Philadelphia area, agency properly determined that transfer was not in the interest of the government and denied his claim for relo- cation expenses. Fact that employee may have been well qualified for the vacancy to which he was transferred does not provide a basis for payment of relocation expenses. Moreover, the employee's initial impression that the government would pay his moving costs does not nullity the statutory prohibition against reimbursement in the case of a transfer primarily for the benefit or convenience of the employee. DECISION This decision is in response to a request from an authorized certifying officer of the National Park Service for a deter- mination regarding the relocation expense entitlement of Andrew A. Frederick, a former Park Service employee.l/ We conclude that Mr. Frederick's claim for reimbursement of relocation expenses is not payable because the expenses were incurred in connection with a transfer which the Park Service has properly determined was primarily for his benefit. BACKGROUND Mr. Frederick began working for the National Park Service on March 6, 1983, at the Independence National Historical Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. On October 14, 1984, he was transferred at government expense to the Colonial National Historical Park in Yorktown, Virginia. While occupying a I/ This request was submitted by Arlene Tatigian, Regional Finance Officer, Mid-Atlantic Region, National Park Service, Department of the Interior.

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