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B-176798 1 (1973-02-02)

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                  COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES
          4.                 WASHINGTON, D.C. 0548




 S-176798                                          FEB   2 1973



 Mr. J. C. Sharp, Authorized Certifying Officer
 Federal }Iighway Administration - Region 9
 U, S. Departr- an of Transportation
 450 Golden Gate Avenue, Box 36096
 San Franciscop California 94102

 Dear MXr. Sharp:

     We refer to your letter of August 8, 1972, your reference 920-00,5,
 by which you request our decision whether you may properly certify for
 payment the enclosed voucher of Mr.                    an employee of the
 Sacramento, Cnlifornia Operating Division, Federal Hiighway Administration,
 for reimbursement of the costs he incurred in connection with the purchase
 of a residence in the circumstances act out below.

     You indicate that 5 other employees of the Sacramento office were
 subject to sinilar circumstances and that a decision in this.case may be
 applicable to some of those employees,

     Mr.          was transferred to the Sacramento office effective
.October 12, 1970, at which time he occupied the position of highway
engineer (trainee).  You describe the particular-circumstances involved
as follows:

     To assi.nt us in coping with added highway construction work-
     load resulting, in part, from the February 1971 earthquake in
     California, six Federal ighway Administration graduate
     Engineering Trainees were placed in our Sacramento, California,
     Operating Division.  Three of the personnel spaces occupied by
     these employees were permanent, and three ore loaned from our
     lfighway En.ineer Training Pro-,ram for a I year period. We
     were to repay the loaned spaces as other En-ineering vacancies
     occurred in our Region within the 1-year time limitation. In
     fairness Lo each employee, we did not specifically assign or
  identify any one employee to either a permanent or loaned
       pace.

     Consequently, in advising the graduate Trainees so assigned,
     we pointcd out that in the eveen-t a sufficient number of
     Region Nine ceiling spaces did not become vacant, our
     Washington office night place. them in another region where




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