Storage expenses; household goods and personal effects

§ 5726. Storage expenses; household goods and personal effects (a) For the purpose of this section, “household goods and personal effects” means such personal property of an employee and his dependents as the President may by regulation authorize to be transported or stored, including, in emergencies, motor vehicles authorized to be shipped at Government expense. (b) Under such regulations as the President may prescribe, an employee, including a new appointee and a student trainee to the extent authorized by sections 5722 and 5723 of this title, assigned to a permanent duty station outside the continental United States may be allowed storage expenses and related transportation and other expenses for his household goods and personal effects when— (1) the duty station is one to which he cannot take or at which he is unable to use his household goods and personal effects; or (2) the head of the agency concerned authorizes storage of the household goods and personal effects in the public interest or for reasons of economy. The weight of the household goods and personal effects stored under this subsection, together with the weight of property transported under section 5724(a), may not exceed 7,000 pounds net weight, excluding a motor vehicle described by subsection (a) of this section.