Board of Contract Appeals
                    General Services Administration
                         Washington, D.C. 20405
 
                                                
 
                             March 16, 1998
                                                
 
                            GSBCA 14177-TRAV
 
 
                  In the Matter of EDWARD O. McPHILOMY
 
        Edward O. McPhilomy, Las Vegas, NV, Claimant.
 
        Msgt Mark Farris, Chief, Travel  Pay, Nellis Air Force Base,
   NV, appearing for Department of the Air Force.
 
   GOODMAN, Board Judge.
 
        On April 16,  1997, claimant, an employee  of the Department
   of the  Air Force,  requested review  by  the General  Accounting
   Office  (GAO) of  eleven travel  settlement  vouchers for  travel
   performed  between  April  1996  and April  1997,  each  of which
   claimant alleged contained one or more errors.  GAO forwarded the
   claims  to  us   for  settlement.    (Congress   had  transferred
   administrative responsibility for  claims settlement functions as
   previously set forth in 31 U.S.C.    3702 to the Director of  the
   Office  of Management  and  Budget  (OMB).    Legislative  Branch
   Appropriations Act, 1996, Pub. L. No. 104-53,   211(a), 109 Stat.
   514, 535 (1995).  The Director of  OMB delegated certain of these
   functions  to  the  Administrator of  General  Services,  who re-
   delegated  the settlement  functions  pertaining  to  travel  and
   relocation expense claims  of federal civilian employees  to this
   Board.   The authority to  settle these claims has  more recently
   been  vested by statute in the Administrator of General Services.
   General  Accounting Office  Act  of 1996,  Pub.  L. No.  104-316,
     202(n), 110 Stat. 3826, 3843 (1996).)
 
        By letter dated and filed with this Board on March 12, 1998,
   claimant advised that  a settlement has been made  by the agency,
   that "payment has been made and accepted.  Claimant asked that we
   "consider this case closed."
 
        Accordingly, this claim is dismissed.
 
 
                                      __________________________
                                      ALLAN H. GOODMAN
                                      Board Judge