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B-191662 1 (1981-03-02)

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DECISION


FILE:   B-191

MATTER OF:


662              DATE: March 2, 1981

Prescott A. Berry - Miscellaneous
Expense Allowance


DIGEST: 1. Transferred employee who had water
             line run from supply pipe to ice maker
             in refrigerator at new duty station may
             be reimbursed for the cost, including
             pipe used, under miscellaneous expenses
             allowance. Drilling hole in wall is
             not structural alteration since it
             is necessary for connection and proper
             functioning of refrigerator. Prior
             decisions to contrary will no longer be
             followed.

         2. Transferred employee who had gas line
             connected to and vent pipe run from
             clothes dryer at new duty station, may
             be reimbursed for the cost, including
             pipe used, under miscellaneous expenses
             allowance. Necessary holes in walls are
             not structural alterations since they
             are necessary for connection and proper
             functioning of dryer. Prior decisions
             to contrary will no longer be followed.

         3. Where transferred employee at new duty
             station acquires level of telephone
             service comparable to what he had at old
             duty station, total installation charqes
             may be reimbursed under miscellaneous
             expense allowance, even where jacks
             have been installed. Prior decisions to
             the contrary will no longer be followed.

         4. Holdings allowing reimbursement under
             miscellaneous expense allowance for cost
             of connecting ice maker and connecting
             and venting clothes dryer are substantial
             departure from prior decisions and will
             be applied only to cases in which the
             expense is incurred on or after date of
             this decision. However, claimant here
             may be reimbursed in accordance with
             this decision.


THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL
OF THE UNITED STATES
WASHINGTON, 0. C. 20548

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