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Claim for Miscellaneous Relocation Expenses

B-206426 May 24, 1982
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An advance decision was requested as to the legality of reimbursing a Bureau of Reclamation employee for certain miscellaneous expenses in connection with his transfer of official duty station. Since the employee lived in a mobile home, he elected to move it in lieu of transporting household goods. In doing so, he incurred various expenses for materials necessary to connect his mobile home to the available utilities at the new mobile home court. These expenses were disallowed as miscellaneous expenses based on a prior decision. In requesting reconsideration, the employee contended that the expenses were necessary to relocate and reassemble his new home. Apparently, the available utility hook ups were further from his mobile home at the new court than they had been at his former residence. The costs claimed for reimbursement as miscellaneous expenses included the fees for disconnecting and connecting the appliances, equipment and utilities involved in a relocation as well as the cost of converting appliances for operations on available utilities. Based on the record, GAO concluded that the employee's claimed expenses were necessary miscellaneous expenses for equipment utilities at his new duty station incident to the relocation of his mobile home. Accordingly, the employee should be reimbursed for the claimed miscellaneous expenses.

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