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B-192200 1 (1979-03-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacuax0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I 0 Ila 0 QAO UnitJ States General Accounting Office *Washington, DC 20548 5TOffic .of General Counsel iI Reply Reforno: B-192200 Na s ional fin Washington, D.C. Attention** nl Gentlemn Subj ect: ance Center M AR 8 19 7 9 ~k g 0 9 4Wt 2037 * < Lu . IH. Constantini Director,, Freight Department 4 - O7 0 LrtCCAo/V e/r4y',crt American Farm Lines GBL No, K-1289822 9 Your letter oil June 15, 1978, (your file FF20 (WEUadh) 7420 (A) X-15), requests an officiaI determination as to whether you ahould .erminat. collection action on a claim for $793,33 presented by the Zranspotion Officer Fort Jacks,,n South Carolina 'against the American Farm Lines, The amount claimed %epresents costs 1incrred by the 48th Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit (EOD) in rendering certain services incident to a highway acctdenX'on August 19, 1977, (nvolving a shipment of U.S. Navy ammunition beinA transported by an Ameican Farm Lines vehicle on Covernment bill of lading No, K-1289822. Your letter.further ppints .Qut that the claim isued by the Navy Regional.Finance Center (NRFC) on November 14, 1977, to recoup the costs of materIal loss and damage to Government property involved in'the accident, has been paid in full without argument by ttio carrier, American Farm Lines, Therefore our review is limited to the single issue of American Far& Lines' liability under a purported contractual obligation embodied in a DD Form 1926, executed by the Officer-in-Charge (OIC) of the Army EGD team, and signed at the scent, of the accIdent by the driver of the Anerinan Farm Lines . vehicle. Pursuant to 4 C.F,P. 5 104,4 (1978), we advise you thuit in our opinion ':he claim brought against the American Farm Lines cannot be sub- stantiafed by the evidence presented, and we suggest that collection action be terrinated in accordance with 4 C.F.R. § 104.3(d) and (a) (1978). 7.he administrative record before this Office reveals the following pertinent fncts, On August 26, 1977, American Farm Lines vehicle-No, 4058 was engaged in the transportation of certain categories of ar.'uni- tior, from the Naval Aununitions Depot, Ifawthorne, Nevada, to the !Mfilitar Ocean Terminal, Sunny Point, Southport, North Carolina, undr Governmen bill of lading No. K-1289822. At a point approximately 12 miles west rbt * . %,9/ - 9M -~U~ *4 ~ * 4 ~ - l* r, I 7~',rqri 7) t 017? V (53 9 9 . . I -.:

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