SHIPMENT OF HOUSEHOLD EFFECTS FROM TWO OR MORE POINTS IN CONNECTION WITH PCS TRANSFERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-00314R000600240018-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 7, 2000
• Sequence Number: 18
• Publication Date: January 18, 1969
• Content Type: MFR

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SUBJECT . Shipment of Househ 14 Effects from Two or More
Points in Connection with ICS Transfers
1. Among the suggestions re srredto the Administrative Task
Force was a proposal that this Agency follow the State Department
practice of authorizing shipment of hou ohold effects from two or more
points in connection with PC8 transfers. .
2. I talked on the telephone thi#;morning with Mr. Bernstein of
the Travel Regulation Staff in the State partment to ascertain
whether they are providing employees with any broader entitlement in
the subject area than is provided, by. this Agency. In short, they
are not. The State Department Vftc-Uc* according to Mr, Bernstein
is in strict adherence with a lit a Interpretation of paragraph
163a of the Foreign Service Tz'a el gulstions which is
quoted below:
"Each employee Is reapQn1sible 9* any transportation,
demurrage, storage, cam, ca tege or other costs
incurred by him or his agent ,ch are not authorized
by laws and regulations Vveraing the shipment of his
effects at Government evense.
If effects are shipped between points other than those
authorized, only constr tUo 'costs, based on actual
weight shipped, but not ifl excess of actual cost, are
allowable."
3. The Agency on this
point is as follows:
"ELECTIVE ALT TIVW. An employs may elect, without
amendment to the travel order, to ship effects by means
not usually employed, or to or from a point not specified
in the travel order, provided the actual origin or the
actual destination is that authorized and further pro-
vided that, on transfers from a domestic post to a post
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abroad, effects may not be ahlpped to points other than
the prospective post or the place of storage. Reimbursable
costs will not exceed those which would have been incurred
had shipment been made in one 44 by transportation means
usually employed and between points specified in the
travel order."
4. The Agency regulation.ie being interpreted as permitting
shipments of household effects from two or more locations with the
employee being responsible for only4"h portion of the aggregate
actual cost of such shipments as exceeds the constructed cost of the
actual weight of such shipments (not to eed authorized weight)
fora one lot shipment by transportation means usually employed
between the points specified in the travel order. Mr. Bernstein
affirmed that the State Department regulation is being interpreted
in the same manner. The following example was used as a basis for
assuring that we were on common ground in our conversation.
"Assume an employee is *uthorized to transfer from
Washington to a post abroa4 and that he has an authorized
weight limitation of 5,000 lbs. He ships 3,000 lbs.
from Washington and 1,000 lba, from Chicago. His
reimbursable cost would be his actual cost not to exceed
the constructive cost of shipping 4,000 lbs. from
Washington to his post in a one lot shipment.
Mr. Bernstein made a point of emphasizing that the
construction in the above illustration would be based
on the 14,000 lbs. actually shipped, and not against
the 5,000 lbe. authorization.
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