FACT-FINDING MEETING WITH THE GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION (GSA) CONCERNING DOMESTIC RELOCATION ISSUES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP85B01152R000400530015-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 14, 2008
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: September 22, 1983
• Content Type: MEMO

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22 September 1983
SUBJECT: Fact-Finding. Meeting with the General Services
Administration (GSA) Concgrning Domestic
Relocation Issues
REFERENCE: OLL 83-2212, dated 13 September 1983,
Subject, Domestic Relocation Allowance
SUMMARY: Office of Personnel and Office of Legislative
Liaison met with the GSA official responsible for drafting
new legislation to resolve severe financial hardships being
experienced by all Federal employees who are transferred PCS
domestically. OMB has found fault with the draft bill and
has returned it to GSA for rewrite. Information from
several sources suggests that OMB will not clear the bill
because of the significant adverse impact (+/- $200 million)
.it would have on the Federal budget if ultimately enacted.
1. On 20 September 1983. Deputy
Director of Personnel and I, met with
Mr. William McDade, Deputy Director of Transportation for
the General Services Administration. Mr. McDade is the GSA
official responsible for the preparation of draft legislation
"Federal Employees' Relocation Allowances Reform Act of
1983," and indicated a willingness to brief us on the
current status of the above-stated draft bill that addresses
the Agency's domestic PCS relocation dilemma.
2. Mr. McDade stated that the office of Management and
Budget (OMB) had completed its review of the GSA-drafted
legislation and characterized the submitted views as
"innovative, constructive and useful, refreshingly flexible,
but...." The "but..." involved wide-spread concern over the
.provision that required that individual employees
"negotiate" their domestic PCS transfer allowances with the
management of their agency. In addition to widespread.
.individual agency concerns with this provision (Section
5722), OMB claims to see this as a union-bargaining rights
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issue with the potential for a flood of employee grievance
claims over "not getting enough money through negotiation
with management." OMB has tasked OPM with reviewing this
concern; from both perspectives, and collaborating with
OMB's labor union negotiation group.
3. Mr. McDade stated that GSA will regroup with OPM and
OMB personnel, as directed, with a view towards rewriting
the draft legislation to solve the "negotiation" concern
without otherwise adversely impacting the flexibility
afforded individual agencies and departments in implementing
the bill. Failing this, he feels GSA's only recourse is to
go back to their historical incremental approach to existing
allowances. Mr. McDade believes that by mid-October 1983
his review and rewrite will be back to the Administrator
(Mr. Gerald Carmen) and OMB. again for yet another review.
Mr. McDade states that while Mr. Carmen is supportive of the
bill, OMB is not at all supportive--for a simple reason.
This bill, or something similar, would have an adverse
affect on the Federal budget (and budget deficit) to the
tune of some $200 million or so, and this is simply not
acceptable. Therefore, this proposed legislative solution
will not be cleared by OMB.
4. In response to our inquiry, Mr. McDade responded
that the only way agencies and departments could weigh in on
this was to contact either OMB or Mr. Carmen. While this
may ultimately be appropriate, my sense is that we should
await the results of current efforts to fix OMB's concerns
and see what OMB next objects to. and I will
stay in tune with this issue and act accordingly.
Liaison Division
Office of Legislative Liaison
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