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B-131836 1 (1973-06-05)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaaddb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COM4PTROLLER GENWFIAL OF TlE UNITED STATES B-131836 June 5, 1973 4f The !onorable Joln I, Warner Tho Secrntary of the Navy Dear kt. oecratarys Ile refer to letter d.ed hlarch 30, 973, from the Undor SEcrotary of the Navy, in responne to our letter of brury 9, 1973, in wVich we rqunsted an c:'peeeQcuiun of your vie ws,concernuf; theiproprcy of payset under 37 USC, 427(h)(2) of fantfly srll;rtion aikipance (PSA) to about '230 ,ucraers on tlree allip whicl h ave been or are beingover- hauled at the lorfolk avnl Shipyard in ?ortsn, outh, Virrirtd, located about 3 miles froal aorfolh, Virginia, the home port of the ships. In our letter wa state!i that none of these mer bTrs fnrllas revide in the Worfolk ar0a and that hen they were assigned to the ships the menbern had the option of roving their families at Govern'- mont expenoe to the Norfolk area, but chose not to do aso While the ships wure at 1!orfolk such aerabzrs had no entitle-welt rJ ISA, but were paid the allot:nnco for the period when the ships to which they ware aaoi ned wm-e ba$ng overhauled in Portomouth, We pointed out that those rrnbes who had moved their fa.lius to Blorf-olk, the lomo port of the shipa did not receive the nllowancin and it wan further pointed out that had th other L otrs moved thuir lauilie to the i;orfolk aroa they too iould not have been entitled to the. tilowance while their hips were at Portsmoutith for oveshaul since they still would have been vitluin easy co:uting dlotance of thtuir familiea. In our letter te referred to two of our decciuions, 43 Comp. Cn. 444 (1963) and 43 Comp. Gen, 527 (1964) in idch we held, contrary to ,,art earlier decinion, 43 Coiup. Gen. 332 (1963), that .siuaraber whose /dopundents do not reside at or in the vicinlty of tm homo port w;ould /be entitled to FSA, if otherwise qualifled, when the member's vessel in mowny ftom its hoo port and thero results a separation of the nember /from Is dependent. by reason of his nilitary Aouignan2nt. ,hi It was notod, houaver, that the decisions did not considar the / atuation of a ahort move of the vessel in the vicinity of the hon port such as the rnwoment from lorfolk to Portsmouth. 8ince no 3utitlewant to thn allowance resulted in thor case of dnperdento PUULS, D DECISION1 • .' 6Z~~5 Comp,Go. _. I

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