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B-176567 1 (1972-11-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaddvm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 B-176567 November 27, 1972 a 09969?0 Dear Mr. Secretary: We refer further to letter dated July 6, 1972, from the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (!anpower and Reserve Affairs), forwarded here by letter of July 17, 1972, fron the Per Diem, Travel and Trans- portation Allowance Committee (Control No. 72-28), requesting an ad- vance decision regarding the proposed revision of Volumes 1 and 2 of the Joint Travel Regulations to permit drayage at Government expense between lorcal economy housing under certain circumstances. In his letter, the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force states that at certain overseas permanent duty stations there are no Govern- ment quarters, and, accordingly, military members and civilian em- ployees obtain housing on the local economy under a leasing arrange- ment. It is said that there are at least two instances where local economy housing may be terminated even though no permanent change of station is involved: (a) reinspection by medical personnel declaring that the military member or civilian employee must move because the quarters no longer meet the established health and sanitation standards, (b) landlord terminates the lease and will not renew it and the military member or employee must move to economy quarters. Under (a) or (b) the personnel affected are said to have no option other than to move to other economy quarters in the same area. While there is no provision in the Joint Travel Regulations which would authorize drayage in the described circumstances, it appears to the Assistant Secretary that the principles enunciated in our decision B-173330, July 7, 1971 (51 Comp. Gen. 17), upon which paragraph M8311 of the regulations is based, would be applicable to military members. In the absence of statutory authority or implementing regulations pertaining to civilian employees in the described situations and in view of the unusual circumstances beyond the control of employees requiring their relocation, it is said that such movement, while not a SPUBLISED DECISION 52 Comp. Gen. a

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