|CHAPTER�5�-�PERMANENT�DUTY�TRAVEL
    PART�F:��TRANSPORTATION�OF�MOBILE�HOMES
        U5520�EXCESS�COSTS�FOR�MOBILE�HOME�TRANSPORTATION�OF�SEPARATED�MEMBER,�DECEASED�MEMBER,�AND�HEIRS�OF�DECEASED�MEMBERS
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| | U5520 EXCESS COSTS FOR MOBILE HOME TRANSPORTATION OF SEPARATED MEMBER, DECEASED MEMBER, AND HEIRS OF DECEASED MEMBERS� | 
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| | Upon a member�s: | 
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| | 1.discharge, resignation, or separation from active duty resulting in a nonpay status, or� | 
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| | 2.decease,� | 
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| | 3.when authorized by Service regulations,� | 
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| | transportation of mobile homes involving excess costs (see par. U1010-B8) may be made.� The Government is obligated only for the total authorized cost.� The member (or heirs, in the case of a deceased member) may arrange for mobile home transportation out of personal funds and apply for reimbursement of the amount allowable under this Part. | 
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| | U5530 LOCAL MOVES� | 
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| | A member, who is ordered by the commanding officer of the installation concerned to vacate the (either Government or economy) premises on which the mobile home is located, is entitled to Government procured transportation or reimbursement for the expenses incurred (including temporary storage under par. U5555) for mobile home transportation to another site in the vicinity of the member's PDS.� The reimbursable expenses include those necessarily incurred in making the mobile home ready for transportation, moving it to another location, and installing it at the new site (52 Comp. Gen. 69 (1972)). | 
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| | U5540 MOBILE HOME TRANSPORTATION UNDER UNUSUAL OR EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES | 
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| | A.� Mobile Home Transportation When Dependents Travel in Advance of Member's PCS Due to Official and Personal Situations.� | 
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| | A member entitled to HHG transportation under pars. U5370-B1; U5370-C; and U5370-D1, D2, D3, D7 and D8: | 
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| | 1.to a designated place in CONUS, or� | 
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| | 2.from a point outside CONUS and Alaska to a designated place in Alaska,� | 
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| | is entitled to mobile home transportation to the designated place in CONUS or Alaska, as applicable, if the conditions in par. U5502 are met.� This mobile home transportation is in lieu of shipping HHG except as authorized in par. U5330-F3.� The orders authorizing dependent transportation under par. U5240 also may authorize HHG/mobile home transportation and should specify under which of the above cited subparagraphs in par. U5370 the transportation is authorized.� After a mobile home is shipped incident to the advance transportation of dependents, no further mobile home transportation is authorized before the member's next PCS from the overseas PDS. | 
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| | 1.� Member Assigned to Full PCS Weight Allowance Area. | 
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| | The amount the Government pays for mobile home and HHG (see par. U5330-F3) transportation to the designated place may not exceed what it would have cost the Government to transport the member's PCS weight allowance from the overseas PDS to the designated place.� For example:� Dependents early return from Hawaii. 1,000 pounds of HHG are shipped from Hawaii to the designated place in Detroit, MI.� The member's mobile home was last transported at Government expense to Dothan, AL.� Member has a 12,500 pound PCS weight allowance.� Member's entitlement for mobile home transportation is based on what it would have cost to move 11,500 pounds of HHG from Hawaii to Detroit. | 
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| | 2.� Member Assigned to Administrative Weight Restricted Area. | 
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| | The mobile home may be transported from a point in CONUS (or Alaska, if applicable) to the designated place.� The cost to the Government for transporting the mobile home may not exceed what it would have cost the Government to transport the member's PCS weight allowance, minus the weight of HHG shipped from overseas, from: | 
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| | a.the member's last PDS in CONUS (or Alaska), or� | 
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| | b.the port in CONUS (or Alaska) through which the member's HHG from overseas would be shipped to the designated place, whichever is to the member's advantage (see Example 1).� (Exception: if a member owned a mobile home and was entitled to but did not move it to the last CONUS PDS while serving there, when the dependents advance return from the administrative weight restricted area, the mobile home may be shipped at Government expense from the point it was located when it could have been transported at Government expense to the member's last PDS in CONUS or Alaska.) The constructive Government cost for this mobile home transportation shall be based on the member's PCS weight allowance on the effective date of the orders from that station (see Example 2)). | 
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| | EXAMPLE 1 | 
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| | Member was assigned to Fort Carson, CO and bought a mobile home while there.� The member was then assigned to an administrative weight restricted area in Germany, and was restricted to shipment of 2,000 pounds of HHG to Germany.� The member left the mobile home in the Fort Carson area.� The dependents accompanied the member to Germany. After residing there for a year, the dependents early return and 1,000 pounds of HHG/unaccompanied baggage are shipped from Germany to the designated place in Detroit, MI.� The member requests the mobile home be moved from Fort Carson to Detroit. The member has a 12,500 pound PCS weight allowance.� Member has 11,500 pound PCS weight allowance remaining.� Member's entitlement for mobile home transportation is computed based on what it would have cost to move 11,500 pounds of HHG from Fort Carson to Detroit.� The computation is based on the distance from Fort Carson to Detroit as that is advantageous to the member over Bayonne, NJ to Detroit. | 
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| | EXAMPLE 2 | 
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| | A member was assigned to Fort Ord, CA and bought a mobile home while there.� The member was next assigned to Fort Carson, CO.� At that time, the member�s PCS weight allowance was 8,000 pounds. 1,000 pounds of HHG were shipped from Fort Ord to Fort Carson and the mobile home was left in the Fort Ord area.� The member was later assigned to an administrative weight restricted area in Germany, and was restricted to shipment of 2,000 pounds of HHG to Germany.� The mobile home was left in the Fort Ord area.� The dependents accompanied the member to Germany.� After residing there for a year, the dependents early return to a designated place in Detroit, MI.� 1,000 pounds of HHG/unaccompanied baggage are shipped from Germany to Detroit.� The member requests mobile home shipment from Fort Ord to Detroit.� The member now has a 9,000 pound PCS weight allowance.� 8,000 pounds remain on the weight allowance which may be shipped within CONUS on the early return travel authorization. Member's mobile home transportation entitlement is computed based on what it would have cost to move 7,000 pounds of HHG from Fort Ord and 1,000 pounds from Fort Carson.� In the computation, 7,000 pounds is used from Fort Ord to Detroit because the member was only entitled to 8,000 pounds when assigned from Fort Ord and had shipped 1,000 pounds at that time to Fort Carson.� The remaining 1,000 pounds that is authorized shipment within CONUS on the early return travel authorization from Germany is used in the computation for the distance from Fort Carson to Detroit as that is advantageous to the member over Bayonne, NJ to Detroit. | 
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| | B.� Mobile Home Transportation Incident to Alert Notice.� | 
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| | A member entitled to HHG transportation under par. U5370-F is entitled to mobile home transportation to a designated place in CONUS or in Alaska, if the conditions in par. U5502 are met. When the mobile home is transported after the alert notice, but the member�s movement to the dependent restricted OCONUS PDS is canceled, subsequent mobile home transportation is authorized to the�� member's PDS if the PDS is in CONUS or Alaska. When the PDS is in Canada, Mexico, or Central America, the measure of entitlement is in par. U5505-B1. | 
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| | C.� Mobile Home Transportation Incident to Tour Extension.� | 
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| | A member on a tour of short duration (less than prescribed tour length) at a PDS, who has used the mobile home entitlement upon assignment to that station, is entitled to mobile home transportation at Government expense from the place the mobile home is located to the PDS, not to exceed the entitlement from the old to new PDS.� The entitlement is limited to that situation when a tour is extended: | 
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| | 1.due to unusual circumstances, and� | 
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| | 2.due to the needs of the Service. | 
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| | This entitlement also applies if a member chooses not to move a mobile home to that PDS initially because of the anticipated short time of assignment there (B-208861, November 10, 1982). | 
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| | U5545 MOBILE� HOME TRANSPORTATION WHEN MEMBER OFFICIALLY REPORTED AS DEAD, INJURED, ILL, ABSENT FOR MORE THAN 29 DAYS IN A MISSING STATUS, OR UPON DEATH� | 
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| | A.� Member Officially Reported as Absent in Missing Status | 
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| | 1.� General.� | 
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| | This paragraph applies to mobile homes owned by members on active duty inside or outside the United States who are officially reported as absent for a period of more than 29 days in a missing status (see Appendix A.) | 
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| | 2.� When Transportation Is Authorized. | 
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| | Transportation of a mobile home, for use as a residence by a dependent otherwise entitled to transport HHG under par. U5372, is authorized to a member's official HOR or to another location authorized/approved by the official designated by Service regulations when official notice is received that the member is absent for a period of more than 29 days in a missing status. | 
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| | 3.� Additional Moves--Member Reported as Missing for More Than 1 Year.� | 
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| | A mobile home transported under subpar. 2 may again be transported when the member has been officially reported as absent for a period of more than 1 year in a missing status, and the Secretarial Process determines the circumstances in the case justify an additional move.� Also, if HHG were previously transported under par. U5370-G, a mobile home may be transported under this subparagraph. | 
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| | 4.Entitlement.� | 
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| | A dependent authorized to transport a mobile home under this subparagraph is entitled to one or a combination of the following: | 
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| | a.transportation by a transportation officer by Government or commercial means;� | 
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| | b.personally arranged transportation via a commercial transporter;� | 
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| | c.transportation by a means other than those specified in items a and b. | 
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| | All transportation and incidental costs of moving a mobile home under this subparagraph shall be borne by the Government.� The ceiling prescribed elsewhere in this Part is inapplicable.� Any payment authorized by this subparagraph may be made in advance of the transportation. | 
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| | B.� Upon Death of Member.� | 
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| | When a member with a mobile home dies while on active duty, one dependent of the member is entitled to the mobile home allowances from the place the mobile home is located on date of death to a place designated by that dependent, provided: | 
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| | 1.the mobile home is to be used by the dependent as a residence at destination, and� | 
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| | 2.mobile home transportation is completed within 1 year after the member's death, or� | 
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| | 3.the mobile home is turned over to a transportation officer within 1 year after the member's death when transportation is to be arranged by the Government. | 
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| | An extension of the time limits in items 2 and 3 may be authorized/approved by the Secretarial Process. | 
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| | U5555 TEMPORARY STORAGE | 
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| | Temporary storage is storage authorized with the transportation of a mobile home. This storage is cumulative and may accrue at place of origin, in transit, at destination, or any combination thereof.� When storage facilities are unavailable at origin or at destination, storage may be in the nearest available storage facility authorized/approved by the responsible transportation officer. In computing the storage periods, the period of actual storage governs, regardless of commercial billing practices.� The temporary storage cost is excluded when comparing the mobile home transportation total cost with the member's PCS weight allowance transportation total cost for the purpose of computing the measure of entitlement authorized.� Except as provided in subpars. C and D, the member shall bear all temporary storage costs when a mobile home is placed therein under PCS orders and then not transported.� | 
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| | B.� Time Limits | 
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| | 1.� First 90 Days of Storage.� | 
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| | A member is entitled to mobile home temporary storage at Government expense for 90 days with any authorized mobile home transportation.� When a mobile home remains in storage after the initial 90-day period, all storage charges accruing after expiration of the first 90-day period shall be borne by the member unless additional storage is authorized/approved under this paragraph. | 
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| | 2.� Storage After the First 90 Days.� | 
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| | When, because of conditions beyond the member's control, a mobile home must remain in temporary storage after the first 90 days, additional storage for not more than an additional 90 days may be authorized/approved by the transportation officer or other officer designated by the Service concerned.� Requests for authorization/approval of additional storage must be accompanied by the member's statement of all the facts in the case.� Among the reasons for which additional storage may be authorized/approved are: | 
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