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[Reconsideration of Request for Prospective Reimbursement Authorization for Travel Expenses]

B-207094 Feb 11, 1983
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In response to a request from the counsel of a former employee of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), GAO reconsidered a BLM decision which had disallowed her request for prospective authorization for reimbursement for relocation expenses from her former duty station in Alaska to her residence in Colorado. The employee contended that, following her resignation, she had notified the agency of her intention to relocate within the 2-year time limit required for compensation of travel expenses. GAO has held that, for return expenses to be reimbursable, such travel should be clearly incidental to the termination of an assignment and take place within a reasonable time after termination; therefore, any advice that she had been given that she had an unqualified 2-year period after her seraration to exercise her return rights would not have been in accord with either the applicable regulations or GAO decisions. Further, GAO noted that the former employee was reemployed in Alaska; GAO has held that private employment at the termination location signifies that subsequent return travel is not incidental to the separation. Accordingly, the prior decision was affirmed.

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