Board of Contract Appeals
                 General Services Administration
                      Washington, D.C. 20405


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                        December 16, 2005
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                         GSBCA 16741-RELO


                In the Matter of ROXANNA E. ZAMORA


     Roxanna E. Zamora, Bonaire, GA, Claimant.

     Lt. Col. Nathan M. Berman, Office of the Staff Judge Advocate, 78th Air Base Wing,
Department of the Air Force, Robins Air Force Base, GA, appearing for Department of the
Air Force.  

NEILL, Board Judge.

     Claimant, Ms. Roxanna E. Zamora, a civilian employee of the Air Force, underwent
a permanent change of station (PCS) move from Springfield, Virginia, to Robins Air Force
Base, Georgia, in September 2004.  During the course of that move, some of her household
goods were damaged.  Ms. Zamora subsequently filed a claim for these damages with her
agency.  She is dissatisfied with the processing and adjudication of her claim and now asks
this Board to review the agency's determination.  

     The agency argues that Ms. Zamora's claim was adjudicated in accordance with the
Military Personnel and Civilian Employees' Claims Act, 31 U.S.C.   3721 (2000), and that
this Board does not have settlement authority for a claim of this type.  Claimant has been
given an opportunity to examine the agency's objection to our settling this dispute and has
filed comments on the agency's submission.  Nothing in the claimant's comments, however,
persuades us that the agency is incorrect in contending that we lack the authority to resolve
this dispute.        

     We have stated repeatedly that claims, such as this one, for loss or damage to one's
property incident to a PCS move are covered by the Military Personnel and Civilian
Employees' Claims Act.  That law vests claims settlement authority for such claims in
agency heads, not this Board.  Thus we have no authority to review Ms. Zamora's claim or
the agency's processing of it.  Victor G. Herington, GSBCA 15914-RELO, 03-1 BCA 
 32,187; Dale G. Luckman, Jr., GSBCA 14874-RELO, 99-2 BCA   30,431; Paul W.
Johnson, GSBCA 13815-RELO, 98-1 BCA   29,407 (1997); Gretchen F. Ridgeway,
14074-RELO, 97-1 BCA   28,942; Charles A. Miller, GSBCA 13679-RELO, et al., 97-1
BCA   28,865.  

     We, therefore, dismiss this claim. 


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                                   EDWIN B. NEILL
                                   Board Judge