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B-227727 1 (1989-03-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadnjz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A The Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Timothy R. Manns - Installation of Telephone Matterof- Equipment in Employee Residence File: B-227727 Date: March 7, 1989 DIGEST The National Park Service may use appropriated funds to install private telephone service in residence of employee who was required to temporarily vacate his government- furnished residence for about 2-1/2 months during renova- tion. It is doubtful that Congress intended to preclude payment in such cases when enacting 31 U.S.C. § 1348(a)(1) (1982), which generally prohibits the payment of any expense in connection with telephone service installed in a private residence. Airman First Class Vernell J. Townzel, B-213660, May 3, 1984, overruled. DECISION This decision is in response to a request from Mr. Mark D. Hooper, Certifyinq Officer, Rocky Mountain Regional Office, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Mr. Hooper requests a decision regarding the propriety of using appropriated funds to install a telephone in the temporary residence of Mr. Timothy R. lanns, a National Park Service employee, and subsequently to ceinstall a telephone in Mr. Manns's permanent residence. For the reasons set forth below, we conclude that appropriated funds may be used for these purposes. Mr. Manns was forced to vacate his qovernment quarters temporarily for needed repairs. The Park Service has paid the cost of moving the employee's household goods from one set of quarters to another as administrative costs of operating the installation, but questions whether it may pay certain telephone charges on the same basis. The costs at issue here were charges by the telephone company to move Mr. Manns's personal telephone to temporary government

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