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B-187020 1 (1978-11-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadtvd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: (.)UNITED STATES GENERAL, ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 IN REPLY REFER TO: B-187020 prrICE OF GENERAL COUNSEL O 1978 The Honorable Barbara Allen Babcock Assistant Attorney General Civil Division Department of Justice Attention: Ms. Alfreda R. Bennett, Attorney Commercial Litigation Branch Dear Ms. Babcock: Subject: v. United States Ct. Cl. No. 41.6-78 Reference is made to letter dated October 4, 1978 (file reference BAB:ARB:els 154-416-78), and statutory call form of October 3, 1978, requesting a report on the petition filed September 19, 1978, in the above-entitled case wherein the plain- tiff in effect seeks reimburs2ment of $736.15, the expenses he incurred in shipping his household goods toBangkok incident to a permanent change of station. Payment of the amount sought to be reimbursed was denied by Comptroller General in decision B-187020, January 24, 1977, a decision issued pursuant to the request of an authorized certify- ing officer of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Department of Justice, dated July 6, 1976. Copies of that decision and the certifying officer's request are enclosed. We assume you will receive a full report on the matter from the DEA which will include basic documentation regarding this claim. If complete documents are not available from the agency we will furnish further materials from our file. The petition contains allegations relative to the shipment of personal effects by plaintiff, a DEA employee, incident to perma- nent change of station. Air shipment of unaccompanied baggage of up to 250 pounds and surface transportation shipment of 5,000 pounds net weight was authorized. Plaintiff further alleges, in effect, that through no fault by him his personal effects were improperly shipped and that the failure of the DEA to issue surface freight instructions or to place a pound limitation concerning air shipment in the Government bill of lading effectively eliminated the 250 pound limitation. Plaintiff further alleges in effect that the failures of DEA, the only authority that could issue surface

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