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B-192609 1 (1978-09-18)

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MATTER OF:      Emory A. McKinley - Report of Survey


DIGEST:


Report of Survey, reviewed on appeal by proper military
authority, found Air Force supply employees jointly and
severally liable for disappearance of two cases of sun-
glasses.  Sunglasses had been delivered to base, but were
misrouted and never properly processed or accounted for.
Business Agent of labor union, representing one of the
employees, requests GAO review the decision of the Air
Force assessing liabZlity. GAO has no authoilty to
review determinatirna resulting from Report of Survey
since such determinations are final under 10 U.S.C.
6 9835.


     This decision is in respoase to a request from Mr. Curtis C.
DeWitt, Business Agent, Local 987, American Federation of Covern-
ment Employees (AFL-CIO), for review of the decision of June 22,
1978, issued by the Commander, Air Force Accounting and Finance
Center, Department of the Air Force, :ssessinq pecuniary liability
against Mr. Emory A. McKinley.

     According to the file, an investigation by Materiet Receiving
Branch personnel, Robins Air Force Base (AFB), Georgia, revealed
that on AugLst 26. 1977, Government property consisting of two
cases ccntaining a total of 298 prirs of sunglasses was shi'ped
from the Defense Depot, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, via Georgia
Highway Express, to Robins AFE. On August 30, 1977, a warehouse-
man in the Decentralized Receiving Section received the two calses
and signed a bill of lading therefor. The sunglasses were min-
routed, never processeu or posted to accountable records, and
subsequently disappeared. An official investigation by the Base
SecuriLy Division led to the issuance on November 1, 1977, of
Report of Survey No. 78-52 which held Richard E. Dubose, Emory A.
McKinley, and Gerald Burleson, all supply employees at Robins AFB,
pecuniarily liable in the amount of $1,940.84 for the missing
property.  The Report of Survey was approved by an authorized
official 3n February 15, 1978.

     On February 21, 1978, Mr. McKinley file. an appeal to the
Reiorr of Survey. Upon review of all the cactq, circumstances


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