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B-214975 1 (1984-12-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmcd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 3O5 THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OECISION . OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. O.C. 20548 FILE: B-214975 DATE: December 26, 1984 MATTER OF: Horace T. Morelli - Environmental Differential Pay - Barring Act OIGEST: 1. Effective July 2, 1975, the time for filing claims against the United States with the Comptroller General of the United States was changed from 10 years to 6 years. See Public Law 93-604, now codified at 31 U.S.C. S 3702(b) (1982). A claim filed by an employee of the National Park Service, Department of the Interior, for the period from 1970 to 1981 is governed by the 6-year limitation period. The Comptroller General is without authority to waive or modify the provisions of 31 U.S.C. S 3702(b). 2. An employee filed a claim on July 24, 1981, with his employing agency for retroactive environmental differential pay. The claim was paid by the agency on October 13, 1982, for the 6-year period beginning July 24, 1976, but the claim was not received in the General Acounting Office (GAO) until December 7, 1982. Where the claim has not been recorded at GAO, the agency may pay the claim for a period of 6 years only from the date of payment, not from the date the agency received the claim. The erroneous payment for the period prior to October 13, 1976, may be considered for waiver under 5 U.S.C. S 5584 (1982). This decision is in response to a request by the National Association of Government Employees (NAGE), on behalf of Mr. Horace T. Morelli, an employee of the National Park Service, United States Department of

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