Board of Contract Appeals
                    General Services Administration
                         Washington, D.C. 20405
 
 
 
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                              July 7, 1999
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                            GSBCA 15045-TRAV
 
 
                   In the Matter of WILBUR D. ABRAMS
 
 
        Wilbur D. Abrams, Wetumpka, AL, Claimant.
 
        Donald M.  Suica and Beth  B. Sturgess, Office of  the Chief
   Counsel, Internal  Revenue Service, Washington, DC, appearing for
   Department of the Treasury.
 
   PARKER, Board Judge.
 
        Wilbur  D. Abrams,  an  employee  of  the  Internal  Revenue
   Service (IRS), asked the  Board to review the actions  of the IRS
   in connection with  his claim for  various expenses incurred  for
   official travel.   The  IRS has  moved the  Board to  dismiss Mr.
   Abrams  request  for  lack of  jurisdiction,  on the  basis  that
   resolution of such disputes is covered by a collective bargaining
   agreement between  the IRS  and the  National Treasury  Employees
   Union.
 
        The IRS is correct that the Board lacks authority to resolve
   Mr.  Abrams  claim.    As  we have  explained  in numerous  cases
   similar  to this  one, many  involving the  IRS, pursuant  to the
   Civil  Service Reform Act of 1978,  where a collective bargaining
   agreement provides procedures for  resolving grievances which are
   within the  scope of  the agreement, and  the agreement  does not
   explicitly  and  unambiguously exclude  the disputed  matter from
   those procedures, the procedures are the exclusive administrative
   means for  resolving the  matter.   E.g.,  Harold S.  Rubinstein,
   GSBCA 14667-RELO, 99-1 BCA    30,113 (1998); Claudia J.  Fleming-
   Howlett,  GSBCA 14236-RELO, 98-1 BCA   29,534; Bernadette Hastak,
   GSBCA  13938-TRAV, et  al.,  97-2  BCA    29,091.    The IRS  has
   persuaded us that this is such a case.
 
                                Decision
 
        The matter is dismissed.
 
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                                      ROBERT W. PARKER
                                      Board Judge