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| | CHAPTER� 12 - EVACUATION AND ADVERSE CONDITIONS TRAVEL | 
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| | C12000 GENERAL | 
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| | A.� EMERGENCY EVACUATION | 
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| | 1.� Legal Basis. | 
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| | Title 5 U.S.C. 5725 provides authority for transportation at Government expense for members of family and HHG when an official determination by proper authority (see subpar. 2) is made that emergency evacuation movement is required.� Title 5 U.S.C. 5522 provides additional authority relating to emergency evacuation movements of employees and payments in connection with emergency evacuation movements.� Authority for emergency storage of privately owned motor vehicles is provided in par.C11007.� The current series of DOD Instruction 1400.11, adopts for the DOD the governing provisions of Chapter 600 "Advance Payments and Evacuation Payments" prescribed in the Standardized Regulations (Government Civilians, Foreign Areas) by the Department of State (see Appendix I for copy of Chapter 600) and in the Office of Personnel Management Regulations, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 550, Subpart D, Payments During Evacuation.� The Department of State regulations apply for evacuation in foreign countries, including the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.� For DOD, the Office of Personnel Management Regulations apply for evacuation within the 50 states, District of Columbia, the Commonwealths of Puerto Rico, and the Northern Mariana Islands, the former Canal Zone area (i.e., areas and installations in the Republic of Panama made available to the United States under the Panama Canal Treaty of 1977 and related agreements (as described in section 3(a) of the Panama Canal Act of 1979)) and any territory or possession of the United States, but excluding the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. | 
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| | 2.� Responsibility for Determination. | 
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| | The Commander in Chief or the Senior Commander, as applicable, having jurisdiction in an area where an emergency occurs, or higher authority, will determine the need for emergency evacuation and will issue such emergency evacuation order as is considered necessary. | 
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| | 3.� Authorization of Dependent Travel. | 
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| | Depending on time allowed, official travel orders may be prepared either before the evacuation or once the individual has reached safety.� DD Form 1610 (Request and Authorization for Travel of DOD Personnel) may be used for authorization of dependent travel. | 
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| | B.� ADVERSE CONDITIONS. | 
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| | 1.� Legal Basis. | 
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| | Title 5 U.S.C. 5725 provides authority for transportation at Government expense for members of family and HHG to an alternative location when, by proper command policy, members of family aren't permitted to accompany an employee to a PDS location because of adverse conditions | 
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| | 2.� Responsibility for Determination. | 
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| | An activity or area commander, in coordination with commanders of other service activities in an area and upon approval by the jurisdictional Headquarters command, may establish a policy precluding members of family from accompanying an employee to an overseas PDS location and restricting the movement of HHG to such location because of dangerous or adverse living conditions. | 
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| | C12001� MOVEMENT | 
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| | A.� EMERGENCY EVACUATION. | 
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| | Employees and/or members of their family may be evacuated from one overseas duty station to another pending a determination as to their: | 
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| | 1.� return to the duty station from which evacuated; | 
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| | 2.� transfer or reassignment to another overseas duty station; | 
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| | 3.� return directly to CONUS. | 
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| | Members of family may be evacuated directly from an employee's overseas duty station to his/her place of actual residence in CONUS.� Movement of members of family and HHG may be authorized later from the place designated at the time of evacuation to a duty station to which the employee is subsequently assigned or transferred.� Travel order provisions, including allowances, will be in accordance with applicable emergency evacuation regulations.� For emergency storage of privately owned motor vehicle in the event of evacuation, see par.C11007. | 
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| | B.� ADVERSE CONDITIONS. | 
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| | When members of family aren't allowed to accompany an employee to an overseas PDS to which he/she is assigned or transferred, transportation of members of family and HHG goods may be authorized to an alternate destination point designated by the employee concerned or by the members of family where it is impracticable to secure the employee's designation.� The members of family and HHG may be moved later from the alternate point to the employee's duty station when the restriction is lifted or to an unrestricted duty station to which the employee is subsequently assigned or transferred.� Except as otherwise provided in this Volume, transportation of members of family or HHG to OCONUS duty stations won't be authorized under this subparagraph unless at least 1 year remains in the employee's tour of duty at that station on the date of scheduled arrival of the members of family at the employee's duty station, or the employee agrees to serve 1 year after arrival of dependents in the overseas area. | 
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| | CHAPTER� 13:� SUBSISTENCE EXPENSES WHILE OCCUPYING TEMPORARY QUARTERS | 
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| | C13100� GENERAL | 
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| | A.� Temporary Quarters.� | 
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| | Temporary quarters are private or commercial lodgings occupied temporarily after a PCS is authorized. | 
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| | B.� Subsistence Expenses.� | 
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| | Subsistence expenses are the expenses of lodging, food and other necessities incurred while an employee and/or dependents occupy temporary quarters incident to a PCS. | 
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| | C.� Types of Temporary Quarters Subsistence Expense Allowances (TQSE).� | 
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| | There are three allowances prescribed in this Chapter: | 
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| | 1.� TQSE.� Actual expense reimbursement - see Part B, | 
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| | 2.� Fixed TQSE.� Fixed amount payment - see Part C, and | 
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| | 3.� Foreign Transfer Allowance Subsistence Expense (FTASE).� Actual expense reimbursement when a PCS involves a foreign transfer- see Part D. | 
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| | PART B:� ACTUAL EXPENSE TQSE | 
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| | C13105� TQSE PURPOSE | 
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| | TQSE is an actual expense reimbursement based on the standard CONUS per diem rate (when temporary quarters are occupied in a CONUS location) or the locality per diem rate (when temporary quarters are occupied in an Alaska, Hawaii, U.S. territories and possessions, the Commonwealths of Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands, or the Former Canal Zone Area) that is intended to reimburse employees for subsistence expenses incurred when they and/or their dependents must occupy temporary quarters. | 
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| | C13110� ELIGIBILITY | 
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| | A.� Eligibility Conditions | 
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| | 1.� General.� | 
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| | TQSE for an employee and/or each dependent, is authorized under the following conditions: | 
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| | a.the employee signs a written transportation agreement; | 
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| | b.a PCS is authorized/approved and the new PDS is located in the U.S., its territories and possessions, the Commonwealths of Puerto Rico and the Northern Mariana Islands, or the Former Canal Zone Area (the old PDS may be outside these areas); and | 
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| | c.the old and new PDS are 40 miles or more apart, according to map distances along a usually traveled surface route. | 
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| | 2.� Temporary Quarters.� | 
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| | The following factors must be considered before authorizing/approving TQSE: | 
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| | a.TQSE is for a temporaryplace of residence. | 
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| | b.If an employee moves HHG into quarters occupied initially at a new PDS and continues occupancy indefinitely, the quarters are permanent quarters, unless c or d applies. | 
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| | c.Quarters occupied temporarily, within the allowable time limit, are temporary quarters when employee-arranged permanent quarters: | 
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| | (2)require repairs or alternations that haven't been completed, or | 
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| | (3)� are under construction. | 
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| | d.The DOD component concerned may determine that quarters initially occupied that eventually become an employee's permanent quarters were temporary quarters after considering: | 
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| | (1)lease duration, | 
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| | (2)HHG movement into the quarters, | 
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| | (3)quarters type, | 
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| | (4)expressions of intent, | 
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| | (5)attempts to secure a permanent dwelling, and | 
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| | (6)length of time the employee occupied the quarters. | 
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