[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR14.4]

[Page 213-214]
 
                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
               CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
 
PART 14_EMPLOYEE PERSONAL PROPERTY CLAIMS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 14.4  Reasonable and proper.

    EPA does not insure its employees from every loss or damage to 
personal property they may sustain. In order for a claim to be allowed, 
the item must not only have been incident to service, it must also have 
been reasonable and proper for the employee to possess the item at the 
time and place of its loss or damage. Generally, the possession of an 
item is reasonable and proper when the item is of a type and quantity 
which EPA reasonably expected its employees to possess at the time and 
place of the loss or damage. Consequently, items which are exceptionally 
expensive, excessive quantities of otherwise allowable items, personal

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items which are used in place of items usually provided to employees by 
EPA or items which are primarily of aesthetic value are not considered 
reasonable or proper items and are unallowable.