B-288166: Mar 11, 2003

This responds to a letter from the Director of Financial Policy and Analysis for the Forest Service seeking relief from this Office, pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 3527(a), for Mr. Mick Barrus, a Forest Service Collection Officer.We grant relief in this case...

B-288166: Mar 11, 2003

He was responsible for collecting fees from campground users. The envelope was neither received by the Lockbox staff nor returned to Mr. The personal checks he had enclosed in the envelope and so the Forest Service is unable to reconstruct the collection of personal checks. Our Office is authorized to relieve accountable officers of responsibility for a physical loss of government funds if we conc...