§ 302-8.200 Eligibility for extended storage during assignment OCONUS.

(a) Extended storage of HHG belonging to an employee transferred or a new appointee assigned to an official station outside the CONUS (OCONUS) may be allowed only when it is clearly justified under the conditions in this part and is not primarily for the convenience, or at the request of, the employee or the new appointee. (b) An employee is eligible for extended storage for an assignment OCONUS if their agency authorizes it in compliance with the requirements in this paragraph (b): (1) The official station is one to which the employee is not authorized to take, or at which they are unable to use, their HHG; (2) The agency authorizes it as being in the public interest; or (3) The agency determines the estimated cost of storage would be less than the cost of round-trip transportation (including temporary storage) of the HHG to the new official station. (c) The same allowable extended storage expenses and other provisions provided in §§ 302-8.101 through 302-8.103 apply to extended storage OCONUS.