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B-187420 1 (1977-02-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadecu0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A DECISION FILE: B-137420 IF: MATTEFM C DIGEST: T-U COMPTROLEN SENERAL OF THU UNITED STATES WASHIN STON, D.C. 2054 DATE: Nbcuary 23, 17f7 Joseph A. Pupello - Reimbursement for shipment of privately owned automobile Employee seeks reimbursement for shipment of automobile to ne duty station in Hawaii. Shipment at Government expense was not authorized initially because designated authorizing official determined shipment not to be in interest of Government. Absent statutorily required determination by agency that phipment is in interest of United States, we have no basis to authorize payment. See 5 U.S.C. 5727(b)(2) (1970). Voucher may not be certified for nayment. : An authorized certifying officer of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Department of the Treasury, has requested our determinatior whether Mr. Joseph A. Pupello may be reimbursed for the expense of shipment of his privately owned automobile from the continental United States to Hawaii incident to a transfer of duty station. In Mich 1975 Mr. Pupello was transferred by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii. The designated authorizing official of the Bureau determined that Mr. Pupello did not meet the requirements established by the Federal Travel Regulations (FTR), FPMR 101-7 (May 1973), for the shipment of his automobile to Hawaii at Govcrnment expense and declined to authorize shIpment of Mr. Pipello's car. Mr. Pupello shipped his car to Hawaii at his personal expense in Junx 1975 and now seeks reimbursement for the expense incurred. He asserts that his situation does atisfy the criteria of the FTR for the required determination that it is in the interest of the Government for him to have his automobile in Hawaii. The certifyin3 officer questions whether Mr. Pupello nay be reimbursed for the expense of ship- ping a vehicle In advance of authorization to do so. We do not need to reach the question posed by the certify- ing officer in this case. The authority for the transportation of motor vehicles belonging to employees transferred to, from or between posts of duty outside the continental United States is prov:ded in 5 U.S.C. 5727. This.section provides in part that an employee's vehicle may be transported at Government expense when: qR c= 0 dO a- S

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