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B-227464 1 (1988-04-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadnbn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: The Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matterof: Dean Littlepage - Tour Renewal Travel Entitlement File: B-227464 Date: April 14, 1988 DIGEST On September 8, 1982, 5 U.S.C. S 5728 was amended to restrict tour renewal travel entitlements for employees assigned to Alaska to not more than 2 round-trips commenced within 5 years after the date the employee first commenced any period of consecutive tours of duty in Alaska. As provided in regulations implementing the amended statute, date of assignment to Alaska for purposes of coverage under the amended statute is the date the employee commenced travel to Alaska under the terms of his service agreement, rather than the earlier date on which he signed the service agreement. Therefore, an employee commencing travel to his duty station in Alaska subsequent to the amendment is bound by the provisions of that law. DECISION We are asked to decide whether an employee is entitled to tour renewal travel on the basis of the law in effect at the time he signed a service agreement or whether his entitle- ment is to be determined on the basis of the law in effect at the time he commenced travel to his new duty station.l/ We hold that the employee's entitlements are controlled by the law in effect at the time he commenced travel to his new duty station. On August 25, 1982, Mr. Dean Littlepage signed a service agreement with the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Alaska State Office, in which he agreed to be assigned to Anchorage, Alaska, for a period of 2 years, beginning on the date of his arrival at that post. He commenced travel to Alaska on I/ The decision was requested by Mr. Jerry A. Fries, an authorized certifying officer of the Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior.

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