FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT POLICY MANUAL

goods by the organizational component which budgets for and
funds the transfer travel is equally applicable to overseas
movements. For such travel performed by employees who have
completed the prescribed overseas tour of duty and are being
transferred to an activity in the continental United States, the
losing overseas activity is responsible for the costs incident to the
movement of household goods. The losing overseas activity is
responsible for funding the transportation of household goods to
the place of actual residence or allowable alternate destination of
an employee who is entitled under an agreement to return travel
prior to separation. However, when such an employee, after
arrival at their destination, accepts employment by another
department or agency without a break in service, the losing
overseas activity bears the cost of the transportation not in excess
of that to the place of actual residence. The cost of any additional
authorized transportation to the new duty station will be borne by
the acquiring department or agency, subject to the conditions for
eligibility stated in the Joint Travel Regulations, par. C1052. The
cost of transportation of household goods of an employee who has
completed a required period of service and has executed a renewal
agreement for a tour of duty at a different overseas activity is the
responsibility of the gaining overseas activity. All Department of
the Navy costs of ocean shipments controlled by the Military
Sealift Command and effected by the Government bills of lading
are charged directly to the appropriation and subhead chargeable
for the travel. The actual funding of costs of transportation of
household goods to or from overseas activities is divided as
follows:
1. packing, crating, unpacking, uncrating, local hauling (by
contract) - chargeable to activity funding travel;
2. packing, crating, unpacking, uncrating, local hauling (by
station forces) - absorbed by funding source which normally
supports the work;
3. ocean transportation (by Government bill of lading) -
charged by MSC to the office or command which administers
the subhead funding the travel (i.e., the major claimant or
subclaimant which issues an operating budget to the overseas
activity);
4. ocean transportation (when not made by Government bill of
lading) - reimbursement to employees by the acquiring or
losing activity as delineated in this subparagraph.
In those instances where over-water movement at Government
expense, or privately owned motor vehicles of civilian employed is
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