Board of Contract Appeals
                    General Services Administration
                         Washington, D.C. 20405
 
 
 
                                                         
 
                             July 27, 1999
                                                          
 
 
                            GSBCA 15031-TRAV
 
 
                    In the Matter of ACE R. ANDERSON
 
 
        Ace R. Anderson, Astoria, OR, Claimant.
 
        Elizabeth  B.   Throckmorton,  Chief,  Policy   and  Program
   Development Division, Office of the Assistant Secretary, Manpower
   and  Reserve Affairs,  Department of  the  Army, Alexandria,  VA,
   appearing for Department of Defense.
 
   GOODMAN, Board Judge.
 
        Claimant, Ace R.  Anderson, a civilian employee  of the Army
   Corps  of  Engineers, has  requested that  this Board  review his
   submission and  provide the following  relief to himself  and all
   employees1  with  a duty  station  on  the  dredges Essayons  and
   Yaquina:   1)  A ruling  that  the Corps  of Engineers,  Portland
   District, be required  by this Board to change  the official duty
   station for employees of the two dredges; 2) That travel expenses
   and  per  diem be  paid  by  the  Portland District  between  the
   official duty station (as  defined by the employees  SF-50B)  and
   the  dredges; 3) A  ruling that time spent  by employees while in
   transit to and from the official station to the dredges be deemed
   "hours worked"; and 4) An  advance ruling that these employees be
   entitled to continued payment of  travel expenses in the event of
   subsequent change in law or regulation.
     
        The Board lacks jurisdiction in this matter.  Board Rule 401
   reads, in relevant part:
 
        (b)  Types of claims.   These procedures are applicable
        to the review  of two types of claims  made against the
        United States by federal civilian employees:
                       
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   1   There  is no  indication in  claimant's submission as  to the
   identities  of these other employees, nor any documentation which
   substantiates claimant s alleged representative  capacity to file
   a submission on their behalf.
 
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             (1)  claims  for  reimbursement  of  expenses
             incurred  while  on official  temporary  duty
             travel; and
 
             (2)  claims  for  reimbursement  of  expenses
             incurred in connection  with relocation to  a
             new duty station.     
 
        (c)   Review of claims.   Any claim for  entitlement to
        travel  or relocation expenses must first be filed with
        the claimant's own  department or agency  (the agency).
        The agency  shall initially  adjudicate the  claim.   A
        claimant  disagreeing with  the agency's  determination
        may request review of the claim by the Board. 
 
        The  submission  of  the  claimant  is  not  a  request  for
   reimbursement of  expenses incurred  while on  official temporary
   duty  travel or  in  connection  with relocation  to  a new  duty
   station.   There  is nothing  in the  record that  indicates that
   claimant has submitted such  a claim to  the agency, or that  the
   agency has adjudicated  a claim for which claimant  may request a
   review.    Rather,  claimant  requests this  Board  to  review  a
   determination of  the agency as  to the location of  his official
   duty  station,  to order  a  change  in  the designation  of  his
   official  duty station,  and  to make  general  rulings which  he
   believes should result  from that change in  designation. We have
   no authority to grant the relief requested.  
 
        This case is dismissed.
 
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                                      ALLAN H. GOODMAN
                                      Board Judge