An increasing percentage of relocations involve employees with such vehicles. Image: Dana Kenedy/Shutterstock.com
By: FEDweek StaffGSA has finalized changes to relocation reimbursement policies that will allow for agency-paid shipment of employee-owned alternative fuel vehicles—mostly meaning electrically powered—in situations where that would not be provided for gasoline-fueled vehicles.
A notice in the March 26 Federal Register carries out rules proposed a year ago to accommodate the increasing percentage of relocations that involve employees with such vehicles. Prior rules allowed for shipping a personal vehicle only if the relocation is at least 600 miles away, based on an assumption that the employee instead could drive a gasoline-powered vehicle at least 300 miles per day.
“Even if an alternative fuel vehicle is capable of traveling 300 miles per day under ideal conditions, it could take longer than a day or require a circuitous route and a greater amount of time to reach that distance depending on fueling availability along the route to the new permanent duty station,” the notice says.
Under the rules, when deciding whether to authorize shipment of an alternative fuel vehicle, agencies will have to take into account the types of fueling stations available, where those stations are located, and the extra time and per diem that they otherwise would have to pay if the employee drove to the new site.
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