March 26, 1997
                                                 


                             GSBCA 14043-TRAV


                    In the Matter of DEBORAH WILLIAMSON


     Deborah Williamson, Eagle River, AK, Claimant.

     Brad Wittman, Pacific-Northwest District Controller, Internal
Revenue Service, Seattle, WA, appearing for Department of the
Treasury.

GOODMAN, Board Judge.

     Ms. Deborah Williamson, an employee of the Internal Revenue
Service (IRS), served as a juror in the state court in Anchorage,
Alaska, for nine days during the period January 29 through
February 8, 1996.  For services as a juror, the state paid her $205
(five dollars for the first day and twenty-five dollars per day for
the remaining eight days), which she remitted to the IRS as
required by statute, 5 U.S.C.  5515 (1994), as a credit against
her compensation that she received while on administrative leave as
a juror.    

     Thereafter, Ms. Williamson submitted a travel voucher
requesting payment in the amount of $36 as reimbursement for
parking fees incurred while serving as a juror.  The request for
reimbursement of parking fees was denied by the IRS.  By letter
dated November 4, 1996, Ms. Williamson requested review by the
General Accounting Office.  The General Accounting Office
erroneously transferred the case to this Board.

  On July 17, 1996, Congress transferred administrative
responsibility for claims settlement functions as previously set
forth in 31 U.S.C.  3702 to the Director of the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB).  Legislative Branch Appropriations
Act, 1996, Pub. L. No. 104-53,  211(a), 109 Stat. 514, 535 (1995). 
The Director of OMB delegated certain of these functions to the
Administrator of General Services, who re-delegated the settlement
functions pertaining to travel and relocation expense claims of
federal civilian employees to this Board.  The authority to settle
these claims has more recently been vested by statute in the
Administrator of General Services.  General Accounting Office Act
of 1996, Pub. L. No. 104-316,  202(n), 110 Stat. 3826, 3843
(1996).  Settlement functions for other claims now reside at other
agencies.

     Even though Ms. Williamson submitted a travel voucher for the
parking fees, her claim does not arise from travel or relocation,
but from her service as a juror.  A federal employee who serves as
a juror is not on travel status arising from his or her employment;
rather, the employee is on leave.  We have no authority to settle
claims relating to juror fees received by employees on leave
status.  Because this sort of claim has not been assigned by
statute or by specific delegation from the Director of OMB, it
falls in the residual category of claims whose settlement authority
has been delegated by the Director to "the Executive Branch agency
out of whose activity the claim arose."  (Determination, Dec. 17,
1996).  Accordingly, the Internal Revenue Service has the power to
settle this claim.





                                   _________________________
                                   ALLAN H. GOODMAN
                                   Board Judge