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B-239661 1 (1990-06-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadntb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ~ ~ Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 2054 Decision Matter of: Colonel Rodney M. Atack, USA File: B-239661 Date: June 4, 1990 DIGEST A service member is responsible for excess weight expenses incurred in a government-paid household goods move where he has not established that the service's excess-weight determination, which was based on certified weight tickets showing a substantial difference between the actual weight and the member's allowable weight, was wrong. DECISION Army Colonel Rodney Atack appeals our Claims Group's denial of reimbursement for excess weight costs ($1,321.34) assessed against him by the Army resulting from the movement of his household goods pursuant to a permanent change of station. We affirm that denial. Colonel Atack was authorized a household goods allowance of 13,000 pounds incident to the move. This allowance was exceeded by over 3,000 pounds as evidenced by the carrier's certified weight tickets. Colonel Atack, however, claims that goods other than his must have been included in the shipment, asserting that he shipped substantially the same goods in connection with a move 3 years earlier and that shipment weighed approximately 13,000 pounds. Colonel Atack also offers in support of his claim a statement by a fellow member who accompanied him when the shipment was unloaded at his home that there were building materials aboard the van that did not belong to the Colonel. Section 406 of title 37, United States Code, provides for the shipment of a member's household goods at government expense incident to a permanent change of station, under such conditions as are prescribed in the implementing regulations. Volume 1 of the Joint Federal Travel Regulations, para. U5012, provides that such goods may be transported at government expense under prescribed weight limitations, with any excess weight moved at the member's expense. We have said on numerous occasions that the determination of whether and to what extent authorized weights have been 14 (6c9

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