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B-195782 1 (1979-12-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabjqd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: /Z306 GAO United States General Accounting Office Office of Washington, DC 20548 General Counsel In Reply Refer to: B-195782 Dean K. Crowther, Director DEC 3 197h Office of Operations and Finance Department of Agriculture Dear Mr. Crowther: This is in response to your request, transmitted through the Chief Disbursing Officer, Department of the Treasury that Ms. Betty L. . J Keppner, Class A Cashier, De rtme t of Agriculture (USDA), Forest 3494- Service, Anchorage, Alaska, berelied from liability for loss of 5i--$ public funds We grant relief as requested. The information submitted to this Office indicates that on about March 27, 1978, Ms. Keppner, Imprest Fund Cashier (principal), while attending a trai(ning session, turned an Imprest Fund in her possession over to Ms.- Geraldine A. Nyburg, an Imprest Fund Cashier (alternate). While your submission notes that there is no formal receipt covering this transfer Of funds available in the record there is no dispute that the transfer was made. Ms. Keppner, according to your submission, understood that'a safe meeting required specifications was available for use by the alternate, but this was not the safe Ms. Keppner usually used for storing the funds. However, Ms. Nyburg did not use either safe. Instead, she stored the funds in a locked wooden gun cabinet. The locked gun cabinet was broken into and $513.53 in cash was stolen during the night of March 27. Your submission indicates that an investigation was undertaken by Federal and local officials. There is no mention of the outcome of these investigations except that neither Ms. Keppner nor Ms. Nyburg were implicated in the theft. Based on the results of the investigative findings, you have con- cluded that the loss occurred without fault or negligence on the part of Ms. Keppner or Ms. Nyburg and request relief for Ms. Keppner under 31 U.S.C. § 82a-1. When Ms. Keppner turned the funds over to Ms. Nyburg she was no longer accountable for them. Accordingly, she cannot be held liable for the loss of funds in Ms. Nyburg's custody and the relief requested for her is granted. QO~& L~o 1 U0O7

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