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B-219817 1 (1986-02-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadpsp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 7 ,-' r COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON D.C. MW B-219817 February 21, 1986 The Honorable Charles McC. Mathias, Jr. Chairman, Subcommittee on Governmental Efficiency and the District of Columbia Committee on Governmental Affairs United States Senate DO NOT MAKE AVAILALE TO PUBUC READING Dear Mr. Chairman: FOR 30 DAYS This is in response to your letter of July 25, 1985, requesting our views on whether the Department of Defense's overseas rotation policy for civilian personnel is in violation of any statute. Your re uest arises from an inquiry you received from -, a civilian employee of the Department of the Army. Base on our review of DOD's policy as implemented by the Department of the Army, we discern no statutory violation. As explained in letter of July 8, 1985, addressed to you, his primary concern is that the Department of the Army is not complying with applicable laws and regula- tions in determining which civilian employees will have their overseas tours of duty extended. Essentially, he alleges that the current Army policy, as implemented by the Army in C14, AR 690-300, Chapter 301 (Chapter 301), is inconsistent with the purpose behind the enactment of 10 U.S.C. S 1586, the law regarding the rotation of Department of Defense overseas employees between posts of duty within and without the con- tinental United States. He claims that this regulation per- mits decisions regarding extensions of overseas tours to be made in an arbitrary and capricious manner in violation of Federal merit systems principles and that the Army's current administration of DOD's rotation policy causes unnecessary disruption, resulting in constant turnover and low productivity for overseas employees. Preliminarily, we note that much of discus- sion is based on Chapter 301 of the ArmyRegu ations, which was extensively revised and reissued effective April 1, 1985. Because many of s complaints and comments about the Army regulation are no longer pertinent we will not address each of his concerns but rather will deal with the general question of whether the Army regulation is consistent with law.

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