DOMESTIC RELOCATION ALLOWANCE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP86B00338R000400470005-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 24, 2008
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: September 13, 1983
• Content Type: MEMO

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OLL 83-2212
13 September 1983
SUBJECT: Domestic Relocation Allowance
REFERENCE: Draft Memorandum for the Acting Director
of Central Intelligence from
Director.of Personnel, Same Subject
1. In response to a Director of Personnel (D/Pers) need
?to understand what his policy alternatives are in dealing
with the referent memorandum, I offere nnn-illnntion with
Legislation Division, and Deputy
Director of Personne to prepare a
paper that addresses the background and current state of
this issue, a forecast of the future, and conclude with a
range of policy options available to him, from our
perspective.
2. My plan was to arrange for appointments with
appropriate office of Management and Budget (OMB), Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and National Security Agency
(NSA) personnel, for two purposes. First, I think it
appropriate for us to establish or reestablish liaison
relationships with each. Second, we need to gather current
information to support our study.
3. With OMB we need to understand the current state of
the General Services Administration (GSA)--drafted "Federal
Employee Relocation Allowance Reform Act of 1983." By way
of background, the GSA and Office of Personnel Management
(OPM) have been working for some two years or so, at OMB
direction, at changing those provisions of the Federal
Travel Regulations (FTRs), that control permanent-change-
of-station (PCS) domestic assignments for all federal
civilian agencies. The GSA has drafted legislation. The
OMB on 6 May 1983, requested the views of all federal
agencies on the legislation as drafted.The CIA-submitted its
views (OGC 83-04769, dated 8 June 1983)--supporting the
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legislation almost without exception. The OMB has most
recently indicated that it is working'.on the issue as hard
as it can and does not feel it appropriate to meet face to
face to discuss the subject further. We are in the process
of arranging appointments with appropriate GSA personnel in
an attempt to obtain the same information that OMB is
unwilling to provide.
4. The Office of Personnel (OP) is arranging appoint-
ments for us with the FBI and NSA so that we can determine:
-- the difficulties each is encountering with
domestic PCS assignments under existing
FTR allowances;
-- what independent action, if any, have they
initiated or might initiate in the face of
enactment not prior of late 1985;
.-- what views they expressed to OMB on the
draft GSA legislation; and
-- anything else bearing on the issue.
5. I have already dis' ussed the issue of the inadequacy
of the FTR's as they govern domestic PCS entitlements with
the HPSCI, in the cont6xt of the Agency's unsuccessful
attempt to use the DCI's authority to unilaterally remedy
the problem for CIA employees. Based upon this discussion,
I already have most of the Congressional viewpoint for the
paper to D/Pers.
6. I asked the OP to relook at several aspects of the
"domestic relocation allowance" issue to ensure that the
Agency had a solid, defensible program for any eventuality.
Specifically:
-- does OP fully support the draft GSA legislation;
-- if not, where does it not meet Agency require-
ments;
-- if not, does the D/Pers want a revised "views"
letter submitted to OMB;
is the Congress (HPSCI and SSCI specifically)
aware of the Addition To Compensation (ATC) and
Mobility Incentive Pay (MIP) allowances that the
DCI has authorized;
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is the Congress (HPSCI and SSCI specifically)
aware of'a proposed Agency initiative to increase
both the ATC and MIP allowances for want of
legislative approval of our Domestic Relocation
Allowance initiative or amendments to. the FTRs;
-- if not, should our oversight committee staffs be
briefed; and
what impact would enactment of the draft GSA
legislation or something similar have on the
the ATC and MIP allowances that were authorized,
at least in part, to accomplish the same end
that the GSA-drafted legislation will accomplish.
7. I would hope to have the fact finding for and
drafting of the paper for D/Pers done so that we can receive
a final copy by 30 September 1983.
Liaison Division
Office of Legislative Liaison
Attachment:
As stated
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Retyped:gg (15 September 1983)
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