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B-271612 1 (1997-01-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptafpw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: GAO United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Office of the General Counsel B-271612 January 30, 1997 Lieutenant General Samuel E. Ebbesen, USA Chairman, Per Diem, Travel and Transportation Allowance Committee Department of Defense Hoffman Building 1, Room 836 2461 Eisenhower Avenue Alexandria, Virginia 22331-1300 Dear General Ebbesen: This responds to your letter dated March 1, 1996, in which you ask our opinion as to whether the statutes governing educational travel of student dependents of service members and civilian employees may be construed to authorize a change in the regulations to permit temporary storage or shipment of their unaccompanied baggage to an alternate location in lieu of shipment to and from an overseas location. In our opinion, the statutes involved would have to be amended to so permit. Paragraph U5243-A5 of the Joint Federal Travel Regulations (JFTR), and paragraph C2306 of the Joint Travel Regulations (JTR), provide for shipment of unaccompanied baggage of student dependents of uniform members and Department of Defense (DOD) civilian employees who perform educational travel to and from an overseas residence. The JFTR provisions are authorized by 37 U.S.C. § 430 (1994) and the JTR provisions are based on section 285.1 of the State Department's Standardized Regulations (Government Civilians, Foreign Areas), which, in turn, is authorized by 5 U.S.C. § 5924(4)(B) (1994). You point out that under the above provisions, which are based upon 64 Comp. Gen. 319 (1985), a student dependent may transport unaccompanied baggage containing the items the student needs at college. This is to insure that students with parents at overseas locations are not disadvantaged in comparison with students whose parents live in the United States and who can move the necessary items to and from school in vehicles and store the items at home during school breaks. However, it has been determined that occasionally by the time the items 3041230

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