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B-159261 1 (1973-10-17)

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                  COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES
                             WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548


B-159261                                       Octobe  17, 1973



Mrs. Marjorie E. LaVeille
Apt. 307, The Tamalpais
501 Via Casitas
Greenbrae, California  94904

Dear Mrs. LaVeille:

     Further reference is made to your letter of June  1, 1973, requestibg
review of a settlemnot by our Transportation and Claims Division,  dated
lIay 14, 1973, which disallowed your claim for $393.71, representing reim-
bursement of nontemporary storage and associated expenses  incurred in
connection with the storage of your personal effects during  the period
August 9, 1957, to September 8, 1972.

     A review of the record indicates you placed approximately  250 pounds
of your personal effects into conmiercial storage in August 1957, when you
were first erployed as a Department of Defense  (DOD) overseas school
teacher and assigned to Okinawa.  We note you transferred  to Darmstadt,
Germany, in 1960 and to Augsburg, Germany, in 1962.  Subsequently,  you
transferred to Kararaursel, Turkey, in 1964, thence to Kenitra, Morocco,
in 1965, to Okinawa in 1967, to Japan in 1968, to Nuremberg,  Germany, in
1971.  You retired in 1972 and returned from Nuremberg  to San Francisco,
California, to :oaide after separation.  Your personal effects  remained
in storage in Senttle, Washington, throughout this entire period  of your
employment overseas.

_e   Your clain ws  first received in our Office on January  15, 1973.
In this connecticn, 31 U.S.C.  1la provides as follows:

     §71a.  Same; limitation of time on claims and demands.

          (1)  Every claim or demand  (except a claim or
     demand by any State, Territory, possession or  the
     District of Co:lumbia) against the United States cog-
     nizable by the General Accounting Office under sec-
     tions 71 and 236 of this title shall be forever barred
     unless such claim, bearing the signature and address
     of the claimant or of an authorized agent or attorney,
     shall be received in said office within ten full years
     after the date such claim first.accrued * * *.

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