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B-230448 1 (1989-02-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadnjs0001 and id is 1 raw text is: a ;N .s The Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20648 Decision Transportation of Privately Owned Vehicles from Maer of: Overseas File- B-230448 Date: February 17, 1989 DIGESTS 1. Since no prohibition is found in the authorizing statute or its legislative history, the Federal Travel Regulations may be revised to authorize the transportation of an employ- ee's privately owned vehicle (POV) from overseas at. govern- ment expense, even though no POV was transported overseas initially, provided the employee was assigned or transferred to a post of duty overseas for other than temporary duty, a determination was made that use of a POV at the overseas station was in the government's interest, and the employee actually used the POV at the overseas station. 2. The Federal Travel Regulations may not be revised to authorize transportation of POVs of employees recruited in Hawaii and Puerto Rico to their first permanent duty station in the continental United States. The statute authorizing transportation of POVs to, from and between posts of duty outside the continental United States provides such author- ity only where the POV is to be used at a duty station outside the continental United States. DECISION The Chairman of the Per Diem, Travel and Transportation Allowance Committee requests a decision as to whether regulations implementing 5 U.S.C. S 5727 (1982) may be revised to authorize employees, incident to a permanent change of station, to ship their privately owned vehicles (POVs) from posts of duty overseas at government expense even though they did not ship POVs to the overseas stations initially.l/ The General Services Administration (GSA), the agency delegated the authority to prescribe regulations implementing the statute, provided us with its opinion that 1/ The Committee assigned the request PDTATAC Control No. 88-1. 0_ I/ts I k 3

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