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| | PART D:� ROUND TRIP RENEWAL AGREEMENT TRAVEL FOR LEAVE PURPOSES IN CONNECTION WITH OVERSEAS DUTY | 
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| | C4150� GENERAL | 
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| | Employees may be eligible to receive allowances for travel and transportation expense for the purpose of returning home to take leave between tours of duty overseas as provided in this Part.� The provisions of this Part are applicable to employees serving tours of duty at posts of duty outside the 50 states and the District of Columbia.� These provisions are also applicable to employees serving tours of duty in Alaska or Hawaii but only under the conditions specified in pars.C4152andC4153. | 
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| | C4151� ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR ALL AREAS OUTSIDE THE CONTINENTAL UNITED STATES (CONUS) | 
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| | In order to be eligible for allowances described in par.C4150, an employee prior to departure from his/her post of duty outside CONUS must have: | 
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| | 1.� satisfactorily completed an agreed period of service or the prescribed tour of duty; | 
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| | 2.� entered into a new written agreement for another period of service at the same or another post or duty outside CONUS; (the agreement will cover costs incident to the travel to the employee's place of actual residence or alternate location and return and any additional cost paid by the Government as a result of a transfer of the employee to another PDS overseas at the time of the tour renewal agreement travel); and | 
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| | 3.� qualified for eligibility status under the provisions of pars.C4152andC4153, if the post of duty involved is located in Alaska or Hawaii. | 
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| | C4152� EMPLOYEES STATIONED IN ALASKA OR HAWAII ON 8 SEPTEMBER 1982 | 
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| | An employee whose status on 8 September 1982 was any of the situations listed in items 1, 2, or 3, involving a post of duty in Alaska or Hawaii will continue to be eligible to receive allowances for travel and transportation expenses for tour renewal agreement travel provided that the employee continues to serve consecutive tours of duty within Alaska or Hawaii.� Transfers between Alaska and Hawaii won't constitute consecutive tours of duty for purposes of continuing eligibility under the provisions of this paragraph.� On 8 September 1982, the employee must have been: | 
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| | 1.� serving a tour of duty in Alaska or Hawaii on that date; | 
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| | 2.� en route to a post of duty in Alaska or Hawaii under a written agreement to serve a tour of duty; or | 
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| | 3.� engaged in tour renewal agreement travel and have entered into a new written agreement to serve another tour of duty in Alaska or Hawaii. | 
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| | C4153� EMPLOYEES ASSIGNED, APPOINTED, OR TRANSFERRED TO A POST OF DUTY IN ALASKA OR HAWAII AFTER 8 SEPTEMBER 1982 | 
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| | Except for situations described in par.C4152, the travel and transportation expenses allowable for tour renewal agreement travel in this Part may not otherwise be authorized for employees assigned, appointed, or transferred to a post of duty in Alaska or Hawaii after 8 September 1982, unless it is determined under regulations by the DOD component involved that payment of these expenses is necessary for the purpose of recruiting or retaining an employee for a tour of duty at a post of duty in Alaska or Hawaii. This authority must be used sparingly and only when required to fulfill DOD component staffing needs to accomplish the DOD component's mission.� These provisions are intended to insure the availability of well qualified employees or those employees with special skills and knowledge who aren't available in the local area, and to fill positions in remote areas.� DOD component regulations will prescribe criteria and guidelines to determine the need for payment of tour renewal agreement travel expenses.� The DOD component determination that it is necessary to pay the expenses of tour renewal agreement travel as a recruiting or retention incentive in order to fill a particular position in Alaska or Hawaii will be reviewed periodically but not less than every five years.� The payment of travel and transportation expenses for tour renewal agreement travel for recruiting or retention purpose is limited to two round trips beginning within 5 years after the employee first begins any period of consecutive tours of duty in Alaska or Hawaii.� Employees will be advised in writing of this limitation.� The provisions of the paragraph do not affect the provisions governing overseas assignments and return for employees transferred or new appointees assigned to post of duty in Alaska or Hawaii. | 
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| | C4154� ALLOWABLE TRAVEL AND TRANSPORTATION | 
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| | An eligible employee and his/her dependents will be allowed expenses for travel from the post of duty outside CONUS to his/her place of actual residence at the time of assignment to a post of duty outside CONUS.� Those expenses will also be allowed from the place of actual residence upon return to the same or another post of duty outside CONUS; except with respect to Alaska and Hawaii, the return must be to a post of duty located within the same State (Alaska or Hawaii) as the post of duty at which the employee served immediately prior to tour renewal agreement travel (see par.C4152). | 
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| | C4155 DENIAL/DELAY OF RENEWAL AGREEMENT TRAVEL | 
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| | A.� Denial of Renewal Travel Agreement. | 
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| | Except as provided for teachers in par.C4164, authority for renewal agreement travel may be denied under the following circumstances: | 
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| | 1.� the employee is being processed for separation, | 
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| | 2.� a reduction in force (RIF) involving the employee is imminent, | 
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| | 3.� a removal action is pending against the employee, | 
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| | 4.� the employee's reassignment has been directed to a position in the United States, | 
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| | 5.� the employee is to be reassigned to a position in CONUS in connection with rotation on similar programs which will preclude completion of a required period of service under a� renewal agreement. | 
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| | B.� Delay of Renewal Agreement Travel. | 
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| | Although the employee won't be denied renewal agreement travel at Government expense to which he/she has earned entitlement, except, under the circumstances listed above in subpar. A, items 1 through 5, the time at which the leave is granted in connection with such travel is subject to approval by the overseas command concerned.� If the employee is engaged upon a project which will be completed within a reasonable time, there is a temporary shortage of personnel, or for other cogent reasons, the employee may be requested to postpone his renewal agreement travel for a reasonable period not in excess of 90 days.� Likewise, an employee may request an extension of the initial tour to permit scheduling of leave to accommodate slack periods, school vacations, other personal or job related reasons acceptable to and approved by the overseas command concerned (see par.C4005-C1).While tour renewal agreement travel is ordinarily performed between tours of duty outside CONUS (seeC4006-C2, travel at a later date within a tour of duty may be authorized or approved by the overseas command concerned (Comp. Gen. B-232179, 6 October 1989).� In such case the employee's tour of duty will be extended by the period of time required to perform the tour renewal agreement travel. | 
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| | C4156� TRAVEL IN FAMILY UNITS NOT REQUIRED | 
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| | An employee may travel alone or be accompanied by dependents.� Dependents may travel unaccompanied but can't perform round trip travel under renewal agreement authority if the employee concerned doesn't perform authorized renewal agreement travel.� Unaccompanied dependents won't be allowed delayed use of renewal agreement authority beyond 6 months after the date the employee begins such travel except as provided for teachers in par.C4164. | 
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| | C4157� RENEWAL AGREEMENT TRAVEL NONCUMULATIVE | 
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| | Renewal agreement travel entitlements is for use between consecutive periods of continuous overseas employment and may be performed between the date of completion of one agreement and prior to serving another tour of duty pursuant to a written agreement (35 Comp. Gen. 101) (1955).� Entitlement to renewal agreement travel isn't cumulative from one period of service to another if not used. | 
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| | C4158� TRANSPORTATION OF BAGGAGE | 
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| | Transportation of necessary baggage is allowed as provided in par.C2305. | 
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| | C4159� TEMPORARY STORAGE OF HOUSEHOLD GOODS (HHG) | 
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| | The conditions under which up to 90 days temporary storage of HHG is allowable are prescribed in par. C8002-C2. | 
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| | C4160� PER DIEM ENTITLEMENT | 
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| | An employee is entitled to per diem allowance during the allowable travel period en route from the overseas point of duty to authorized destination and from such point to the overseas post of duty.� No per diem allowances are authorized for the dependents of an employee incident to renewal agreement travel when the employee returns to the same overseas duty station for duty.� However, when the employee is to report to a different overseas duty station for duty after leave, per diem is allowable for dependents while en route, limited to the constructive time by usual mode and route between old and new overseas duty station. | 
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| | C4161� LEAVE STATUS DURING ABSENCE FROM DUTY | 
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| | During the period of absence from the overseas post of duty until return to duty at the same or different overseas post of duty, the employee may be entitled to home leave, or leave-free travel time, or may be in a leave with or without pay status.� The leave regulations of the separate departments apply.� Certain limitations apply to teachers in the DOD Overseas Dependents School System (see par.C4164). | 
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| | C4162� ALTERNATE POINT DESTINATION | 
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| | A.� General. | 
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| | An employee and his/her dependents may perform renewal agreement travel to a location in the 50 states and the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, a United States Territory or possession, or another country in which the place actual residence is located other than the location of the place of actual residence; however, an employee whose actual residence is in the 50 States and the District of Columbia must spend a substantial amount of time in the 50 States and the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, or a United States territory or possession incident to renewal agreement travel to be entitled to the allowance authorized.� The amount allowed for travel and transportation expenses when travel is to an alternate location shall not exceed the amount which would have been allowed for travel over a usually traveled route from the permanent station to the place of actual residence and for return to the same or a different PDS outside CONUS as the case may be. | 
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| | B.� Travel To Alternate Points Not Generally Authorized. | 
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| | Renewal agreement travel won't be authorized to an alternate point except as provided in subpar. A.� The requirement to travel to place of actual residence or an alternate point in the same country in which residence is located isn't met by merely routing through that country en route to another country.� Also, there is no basis for reimbursement if a traveler under renewal agreement authority fails to meet the destination point condition. | 
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| | C.� Prohibition Against "TRAVEL TOURS". | 
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| | Authorization to travel to an alternate location won't be construed as recognizing a "travel tour" concept providing for travel to various points for personal reasons.� An alternate destination point, if permitted within the limitations in subpar. A, will be determined in advance of travel and stated in the travel order.� If the alternate destination point is omitted from the travel order, the order may be amended to include the alternate destination point or the alternate destination point may be specifically approved on the reimbursement voucher. | 
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| | D.� Employee Required To Spend A Substantial Amount Of Time In The United States. | 
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| | In connection with renewal agreement travel, to be entitled to such travel, an employee whose actual residence is in the United States must spend a substantial amount of time in the United States or a territory or possession of the United States. | 
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| | C4163� LIMITATIONS | 
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| | A.� Household Goods (HHG). | 
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| | There is no entitlement in connection with renewal agreement travel for the shipment of HHG except with regard to necessary baggage as provided in par.C2305.� However, the signing of a renewal agreement in connection with renewal agreement travel can be the basis for reestablishing expired entitlement for the transportation of HHG (and dependents) to the extent of prior authorization that was unused (38 Comp. Gen. 653) (1959). | 
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| | B.� Unaccompanied Dependents. | 
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| | For travel entitlements of unaccompanied dependents, see par.C4156. | 
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| | C.� Destination Point Relocation. | 
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| | Renewal agreement travel authority doesn't apply if an employee's travel destination is to a place other than in the country or area in which his/her place of actual residence is located. | 
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| | D.� Duplicate Eligibility. | 
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| | Duplicate transportation won't be authorized for persons who may be separately eligible for renewal agreement travel as an employee and as a dependent. | 
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| | C4164� TEACHERS IN THE DOD OVERSEAS DEPENDENTS SCHOOL SYSTEM | 
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| | A.� Entitlement Incident To Completion Of Period Of Service. | 
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| | A teacher who satisfactorily completes the agreed period of service as specified in his/her transportation agreement will be authorized travel to his/her place of residence in the United States for the purpose of taking leave without pay during the summer recess under renewal agreement travel authority whether return is to the same or another overseas area. | 
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