Board of Contract Appeals
                    General Services Administration
                         Washington, D.C. 20405
 
 
                                                           
 
                            January 29, 1999
                                                           
 
 
 
                            GSBCA 14761-RELO
 
 
                  In the Matter of MONROE J. MITCHELL
 
 
        Monroe J. Mitchell, APO Europe, Claimant.
 
        Col.  Ronald D. Hyatte, Director, United States Army Missile
   Command,  Redstone Arsenal, AL,  appearing for Department  of the
   Army.
 
   GOODMAN, Board Judge.
 
        Claimant, Monroe  J. Mitchell, is a civilian employee of the
   Department of  the Army.  Claimant s permanent  duty station  was
   Alexandria,  Virginia.   He then  was  transferred to  Nuernberg,
   Germany.  In  May 1993, believing he was going  to be transferred
   to Fort Hood, Texas, he purchased a  home in Austin, Texas, where
   his family lived for a year while claimant completed his overseas
   duty.  He  was not reassigned to Fort Hood, but was reassigned to
   Redstone  Arsenal, Alabama, in  January 1994.   In  October 1994,
   claimant requested reimbursement of real estate expenses incurred
   in  the sale of the home  in Fort Hood when  he moved to Redstone
   Arsenal.   The agency  denied the  claim, as  the home  for which
   claimant  has requested reimbursement of real estate expenses was
   not located at his old duty station.
 
        The  agency s action  in denying claimant  reimbursement for
   his expenses  was correct.   The  Joint Travel  Regulations (JTR)
   entitle  an employee  relocated from  a  foreign area  to a  non-
   foreign  area to  reimbursement  of  expenses in  the  sale of  a
   residence at  the official duty  station from which  the employee
   was transferred when the employee  was assigned to a duty station
   in a  foreign area.   JTR C14000-C.3.   In this  case, claimant s
   official duty  station from which  he was transferred  to Germany
   was Virginia.   He is not entitled to  reimbursement for expenses
   incurred in the sale of the home in Austin, Texas.
 
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                                      ALLAN H. GOODMAN
                                      Board Judge