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B-228813 1 (1988-09-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadnfg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: The Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matterof. Mark A. Smith - Household Goods Transportation - Transportation Method not Determined by Agency File: B-228813 Date: September 14, 1988 DIGEST 1. The transportation of an employee's household goods was authorized by a method to be determined by the employing agency, either at the commuted rate or by a Government Bill of Lading. Before the agency determined the method, the employee transported the household goods in a rented truck, and is therefore limited to reimbursement of his actual out- of-pocket costs attributable to the transportation of the household goods. 2. Reimbursement of the out-of-pocket costs an employee incurred in transporting his household goods prior to the agency's determination of the method to be used may include a one-way trip rental of a truck. The reimbursement may not include any charge at a daily rate for a stopover en route, a gasoline charge unless it is shown that it was not included in the one-way trip rental, rental of a tow bar for towing the employee's privately owned automobile, nor insur- ance for the household goods because it was not necessarily a cost attributable to the transportation. 3. Mileage is allowable only for use of a privately owned vehicle in traveling to a new duty station. Consequently mileage is not payable for towing an automobile by a rental truck used to haul household goods. DECISION This decision limits Mr. Mark A. Smith, an employee of the Department of Energy, to his actual expenses attributable to

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