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B-261971 1 (1996-02-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptadro0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matter of: David E. Swayne File: B-261971 Date: February 27, 1996 DIGEST The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is authorized by 5 U.S.C. § 4703(a) (1994) to conduct demonstration projects to determine whether specified changes in personnel management policies or procedures would improve federal personnel management. An employee who is newly appointed to a federal position from the private sector under a demonstration project authorized by OPM is eligible to receive full relocation benefits authorized by the project plan, as though the employee was being transferred from one duty station to another for permanent duty. DECISION This decision responds to a request from an authorized certifying officer, National Finance Center, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).1 The question asked is whether an employee who was newly appointed under a USDA Demonstration Project may receive full relocation benefits incident to that appointment. We conclude that he may receive these benefits, for the following reasons. Dr. David E. Swayne was newly appointed as a Supervisory Veterinary Medical Officer in the Agriculture Research Service, USDA, effective July 24, 1994, for permanent duty in Athens, Georgia, under USDA Demonstration Project, number 6325-01, March 9, 1990. He was paid a recruitment bonus and authorized full relocation benefits, including a househunting trip, temporary quarters, and expenses of residence sale and purchase incident to his move from Columbus, Ohio, to Athens, Georgia, as though he were a full time employee being transferred from one permanent duty station to another. After Dr. Swayne reported for duty, he submitted a travel voucher for payment. The National Finance Center travel unit reviewed the voucher and other documents, 1Ms. Susan C. Lauga-Reference FSD-1 RJP. 225226

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