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B-266192 1 (1996-06-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptadul0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Office of the General Counsel B-266192 June 5, 1996 Ms. Brenda B. Barker Manager, Accounts Receivable & Travel Team Bureau of Reclamation Service Center Finance and Accounting Services P.O. Box 25508 Building 67, Denver Federal Center Denver, CO 80225-0508 Dear Ms. Barker: This replies to the letter you resubmitted on September 14, 1995, reference D-7736, concerning the charges for excess weight of Mr. Rick D. Stubbs' household goods that were shipped incident to his transfer. Mr. Stubbs agrees that his shipment was over the authorized weight limit, but he objects to the manner in which his liability was determined by application of the formula found in the Federal Travel Regulation, § 302-8.3(b)(5). He believes that the total charges in that formula should not include packing, destination, storage and container charges that were applicable to his shipment but should only consist of the line-haul transportation charge. The formula for determining excess weight charges states that total charges consists of transportation and other charges applicable to the excess weight. These other charges include Mr. Stubbs' packing, destination, and container charges. William A. Schmidt, Jr., 61 Comp. Gen. 341 (1982). In this case the storage charge was not applicable to the excess weight because it was not part of the charges for the shipment that was picked up at the old duty station and delivered at the new duty station. The storage charge was a separate charge applicable only to 7,000 pounds of household goods that remained after delivery of the overweight shipment. We note that the Bureau of Reclamation, properly, did not include this storage charge in the total charges in the formula. We note, also, that the Bureau, properly, used the mover's lowest, discounted charge that the Bureau actually paid for the total charges in the formula. 857531

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