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B-197609 1 (1980-10-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadiqg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 0 LR 0 THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION > .OF THE UNITED STATES /AS H IN GTON, D .C . 205 48 FILE: B-197609 DATE: October 20, 1980 MATTER OF: John F. Pattie - Cancelled Transfer - F aJCor(4Tp Real Estate Expenses DIGEST: Employee accepted transfer of station, signed service agree- ment, and received travel orders. Employee was informed that posi- tion description would remain the same at new station. Ten days pricr to transfer, he was noti- fied that he would be subject to another level of supervision. He declined transfer. In absence of a determination by agency that employee declined transfer for reasons beyond his control and acceptable to agency, there is no authority to reimburse the expenses incurred in sale and purchase of his residences or to pay miscel- laneous expense allowance. This decision is in response to (jiequest by Mr. Foon C. Lee,.Authorized Certifying Officer, National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior, as to whether he may certify for payment a travel voucher in the-amount of $4,864.00 submitted by Mr. John F. Pattie, an employee of the agency, for reimbursement of expenses incurred in the sale of his old residence and the purchase of a new residence at his duty station. Mr. Lee questions whether such costs were incurred in the interest of the Government since Mr. Pattie failed to comply with his transfer. orders and failed to fulfill his service agreement. The pertinent facts and circumstances forming the basis of the claim are not in dispute and are as follows. By travel order dated December 15, 1978, Mr. Pattie, Land Acquisition Officer (LAO), GS-1170-13,

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