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B-200154 1 (1981-02-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadjco0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL 0ECISION . OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, O.C. 20548 //S // -Ila~K~ FILE: B-200154 DATE: February 12, 1981 MATTER OF: Use of appropriated funds for the purchase of luggage for use by members of the Navy Recruit Lac Mobile Training Team DIGEST: GAO will not object to Navy using appropriated funds to pay for luggage previously procured for use by Recruit Mobile Training Team members under particular circumstances of this case. Payment would ordinarily be prohibited under rule that equipment for personal use is not authorized to be purchased with appropriated funds in the absence of specific provision therefore contained in appro- priations or other statutes, if ecquirment is for employee's personal convenience or comfort, or can .,be reasonably expected to be furnished by employee himself in order to perform his job. However, team members travel approximately 26 weeks per year on official government business, and Navy believes that it is not reasonable to expect team members to provide their own luggage in light of excep- tional wear and tear due to &mount of travel. We will defer to Navy's judgment on this point. Voucher may be paid as long as it is clear that luggage belongs to Navy, not employees, and is made available to employees only in the special circumstances described. The Department of the Navy requests our decision on whether the Navy may use appropriated funds to buy luggage for use by members of the Recruit Mobile Training Team. For the reasons discussed below the voucher in the amount of $755.20 covering the cost of 14 pieces of luggage purchased from Luggage World Inc., Winter Park, Florida, by the Naval Administrative Command, Orlando, Florida, may be certi- fied for payment. IDL_ 0& 10 The Command ourchased the luggage for members of the Navy Recruit Mobile Training Team to carry their personal belongings while traveling on official business. The Team travels an averaqe of 26 weeks a year, inspecting and training the recruiters, processors and managers who conduct the field activities of the Navy Recruiting Com.and. The Navy has retained the luggage as its prooerty to be used as organizational issue material with strict accountability and controls. An agency may not use appropriated funds to buy equipment or furnishings for employees' personal use unless so provided in the agency's appropriation act or other statute, if the equipent cr furnishings are for the employees' personal convenience or comfort or if they are the kind of item which could reasonably be e×pected to be supplied by the employee himself as part of the usual and necessary /1f49, ZY~w V 0 /17¢ (-, 6/ , w T-7

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