6504 Exhibit 01
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FOREST SERVICE MANUAL
ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO
FSM 6500 – FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING
CHAPTER – ZERO CODE
Supplement No.: 6500-2001-2
Effective Date: March 29, 2001
Duration: Effective until superseded or removed
Approved: ABEL M. CAMARENA
Acting Regional Forester
Date Approved: 02/09/2001
Posting Instructions: Supplements are numbered consecutively by Handbook number and
calendar year. Post by document name. Remove entire document and replace with this
supplement. Retain this transmittal as the first page of this document.
New Document(s):
6504 Exhibit 01
7 Pages
Superseded Document(s):
6504 Exhibit 01
5 Pages
(Last supplement was 6500-2001-1
Transmittal.)
Digest:
6504
Removes Forest Supervisor authority to: request Treasury Department
designation of Forest Service employees as cashiers; and to approve
temporary increases in the amount of funds advanced to cover
emergencies based on current needs.
R3 SUPPLEMENT 6500-2001-2
EFFECTIVE DATE: 03/29/2001
DURATION: Effective until superseded or removed
6504 Exhibit 01
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FSM 6500 – FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING
CHAPTER – ZERO CODE
6504 - Exhibit 01
Delegations of Finance and Accounting Authorities
Delegable (Del) = The authority is delegated and may be redelegated to next lower organizational level.
Yes = The authority is delegated to the organizational level.
Yes ( ) = The authority is delegated to the position identified in parenthesis.
No = The authority is delegated and may not be exercised.
RF = Regional Forester; DRF = Deputy Regional Forester; SD = Staff Director; FS = Forest Supervisor.
Delegated Authority - Activity
Grant relief on shortages in accounts of
accountable officers for amounts up to $3000
Grant relief on shortages in accounts of
accountable officers for amounts up to $25
Use authority as outlines in 5 USC 4503
(Government Employees Incentive Awards
Act) and to establish procedures for providing
refreshments and incurring certain other costs
at employee awards ceremonies
Establish procedures for administration of
donated funds
Accept remittances on occasion for transmittal
to Unit Collection Officer when in the interest
of the Service. (Is delegated to any responsible
Forest Service employee)
Accept first payment on timber sale. (May be
delegated to Rangers authorized to make
sales.)
Designate collection officers to make
collection and disposition of monies on behalf
of the United States (in RO, Director of
F&AS)
Act as or designate bond approving officer for
Region, or Forest-wide blanket bonds
respectively
1. Serve as Forest Service Claims Officer
FSM/FSH Reference
FSM 6506.21b
FSH 6506.21b
FSM 6511.13f
Authority delegated to
RF
DRF
SD
FS
No
No
Yes
No
(FAS)
No
No
No
Yes
(AO)
Del
Yes
No
Yes
FSM 6514.04b
Del
Yes
No
Yes
FSM 6535.1
Del
Yes
Del
Del
No
No
No
Del
Del
Yes
Yes
(FAS)
Yes
FSM 6560.44
Del
Yes
Yes
Del
FSH 6509.11h
20.1
No
No
2. Issue letters of demand and accept full
settlement payment of claims for the United
States
3. Compromise, terminate, or suspend
collection action on claims of the U.S., except
contract claims:
a. in amounts NTE $25,000
No
No
Yes
(FAS)
Yes
(FAS)
Yes
(AO)
Yes
(AO)
No
No
No
b. in amounts NTE $100,000
No
No
No
No
Yes
(FAS)
No
Yes
(AO)
No
Assess a civil penalty against any person who
has violated any prohibition in Archeological
FSH 6509.11h
23.2
Yes
R3 SUPPLEMENT 6500-2001-2
EFFECTIVE DATE: 03/29/2001
DURATION: Effective until superseded or removed
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FSM 6500 – FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING
CHAPTER – ZERO CODE
Resources Protection Act of 1979
Delegated Authority - Activity
FSM/FSH Reference
Settle claims against the Government under the
following authorities:
1. Refund of Monies erroneously collected (16
USC 499)
2. Loss, damage, or destruction of hired
equipment, NTE $2,500 (16 USC 502)
3. Reward for information leading to arrest
and conviction for violating laws and
regulations (16 USC 502)
4. Damage to or destruction of private party in
protection, administration, and improvement of
National Forests NTE $2,500 (16 USC 574)
5. a. Youth Conservation Corps Enrollees
Claims for lost, damaged, or stolen property
(16 USC 1701-1706)
b. Youth Conservation Corps Enrollees
Claims for lost, damaged, or stolen property
(16 USC 1701-1706) NTE $200
6. Senior Community Services Employment
Program enrollees for loss or damage to
personal property (42 USC 3056)
7. Reimbursement to employees for property
loss from fire, flood, other casualties, NTE
$100 (Act of June 20, 1958)
8. Waive collection of erroneous payments
for travel, transportation, and relocation
expenses and allowances, NTE $500 (CG B197290, 2/25/86)
Designate Assistant Disbursing Officers
FSH 6509.11h
31.01
Designate Unit Certifying Officers
Approve, in advance, payments for:
1. Purchase of information
a. over $200, NTE $500
b. over $500, NTE 2500
2. Purchase of evidence
a. over $400, NTE $1000
b. over $1000, NTE $5000
Criminal investigators in the GS-1811 series,
may pay, without further approval, up to $200
for purchase of information, and up to $400 for
purchase of evidence.
Designate official to approve SF-1129,
Reimbursement Voucher
Authority to request Treasury to designate
Authority delegated to
RF
DRF
SD
FS
No
No
Yes
(FAS)
Yes
(FAS)
Yes
(FAS)
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
(FAS)
No
No
No
Yes
(FAS)
No
No
No
No
Yes
(AO)
No
No
Yes
(FAS)
Yes
(AO)
No
No
No
No
Yes
(FAS)
No
No
No
Yes
(FAS)
No
FSH 6509.11k
41.04b
41.12
Del
No
No
No
No
FSH 6509.11k
46
Yes
No
Yes
(FAS)
Yes
(FAS)
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
(FS)
No
Yes
(FS)
No
FSH 6509.13b
Del
No
Yes
Yes
FSH 6509.13b
Del
No
Yes
No
R3 SUPPLEMENT 6500-2001-2
EFFECTIVE DATE: 03/29/2001
DURATION: Effective until superseded or removed
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FSM 6500 – FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING
CHAPTER – ZERO CODE
Forest Service employees as cashiers and
alternate cashiers with restrictions in
redelegation
Delegated Authority - Activity
Approve temporary increase in the amount
advanced to cover emergencies on current
needs. Redelegation only as authorized up
to $15,000.
Approve emergency imprest payments in
excess of $500, less than $1000, by District
Imprest Cashiers
Approve imprest payments to criminal
investigators for purchase of information
1. In amounts greater than $200, less than
$500
2. In amounts greater than $500, less than
$1000
Approve imprest payments to criminal
investigators for purchase of evidence in
amounts greater than $400, less than $1000
Authorize domestic travel for their
employees for all types of travel, except for
those specific items restricted to fiscal
officers
Authorize transportation and standard per
diem rates for individual trips for travel
within the conterminous U.S. for the
following
· Site visits
· Information Meetings
· Use of non-contract city-pair carrier
· Attendance at short-term training less
than 30 days
· Detail of staff's employee to another
location for less than 30 days
· Attendance at approved external meeting
or conferences
Authorize travel for the following specific
items (restricted to Regional Fiscal Officers)
· Travel under a limited open
authorization (Type B), a Nationwide
authorization (Type N), or trip-by-trip
authorization for Regional Office
employees not delegated to staff
Directors.
· Per diem for periods of illness while in
travel status in excess of 14 days
· Travel allowances for group of non-
0004
(FAS)
Authority delegated to
RF
DRF
SD
FS
Del
No
Yes
No
(FAS)
FSM/FSH Reference
FSH 6509.13b
0201.4
FSH 6509.13b
0701.12
No
No
Yes
(FAS)
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
(FS)
No
FSH 6509.13b
0701.14b
Yes
No
No
Yes
(FS)
FSH 6509.33
Del
Yes
Yes
Yes
FSH 6509.13b
0701.14a
Del
No
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
(Fiscal
Officer)
Del
No
R3 SUPPLEMENT 6500-2001-2
EFFECTIVE DATE: 03/29/2001
DURATION: Effective until superseded or removed
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FSM 6500 – FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING
CHAPTER – ZERO CODE
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Government persons
Travel of official agency representative
to attend funeral
Transfer-of-station temporary quarters
exceeding 60 days
Allowable expenses connected with
death of an employee or deceased
dependents of an employee
Transfer of station expenses of new
appointees from outside the
conterminous U.S.
Transfer of station travel of "other
agency personnel to the FS
Travel by privately owned aircraft
Cash payments over $100 for emergency
transportation services and for
inadvertent payments to travel agents or
common carriers
Travel of witnesses appearing at
Departmental hearings
Foreign travel
Authorization of travel not redelegated to
others is delegated to Fiscal Officers and is
restricted to this level, specifically including
the following items:
· Travel by non-Government persons
(excluding family members) in any
Government-furnished conveyance
· Requests from the next lower
organizational level for surface travel of
family members in Governmentfurnished conveyance
· Non-group travel of non-Government
persons
· Post-approval of travel authorizations
· Nationwide (Type N) authorization for
fire emergencies
· Pre-employment interview travel
· Travel allowances in excess of standard
per diem (actual subsistence)
Appoint designated agents to control and sign
GTR's
FSH 6509.33
No
No
Yes
(Fiscal
Officer)
Yes
(Fiscal
Officer)
Del
Yes
Yes
Approve Travel Advances (except for transfer
of station) for employees under their
supervision
Del
Yes
Yes
(Fiscal
Officer)
Yes
Yes
Approve Travel Advances for Line Officers
and for Transfer of Station
No
No
Approve travel vouchers (except for transfer
Del
Yes
Yes
(Fiscal
Officer)
Del
Yes
(Fiscal
Officer)
Del
R3 SUPPLEMENT 6500-2001-2
EFFECTIVE DATE: 03/29/2001
DURATION: Effective until superseded or removed
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FSM 6500 – FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING
CHAPTER – ZERO CODE
of station) for employees under their
supervision
Approve travel vouchers for transfer of station
No
No
Yes
(Fiscal
Officer)
Yes
(Fiscal
Officer)