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2016 CBA Tentati ve Agreement Page 121 of 217 disciplinary action. Section 10. If an employee does not possess a government travel charge card or the charge card privileges have been terminated because of misuse or delinquency, the employee shall be provided a ti cket for transportation if one is required. ARTICLE 90 LEAVE TRANSFER Section 1. The Parties agree with the leave transfer program, which provides for the voluntary transfer of unused accrued annual and sick leave from a leave donor for use by an approve d leave recipient. Section 2. An employee may make a request to become a leave recipient electronically through the Voluntary Leave Transfer Program's (VLTP) on - line site or by submitting a written application to the Agency to become a leave recipient. If an employee is not capable of making an application on his or her own behalf, a personal representative of the potential leave recipient may make a written application on the employee's behalf. Each application shall be accompanied by the following inform ation concerning each potential leave recipient: a. the name, position title and grade or pay level of the potential leave recipient; b. the reasons transferred leave is needed, including a brief description of the nature, severity and anticipated duration of the medical emergency and, if it is a recurring one, the approximate frequency of the medical emergency affecting the potential leave recipient; c. certification from one (1) or more physicians, or other appropriate experts, with respect to the medical emerg ency, if the potential leave recipient's employing Agency so requires; and d. any additional information that may be required by the potential leave recipient's employing agency. Section 3. Employees shall not be required to maintain any minimum leave balan ce in order to receive donations for qualifying conditions. Section 4. A leave recipient may use leave transferred to the leave recipient's accounts only for the purpose of a medical emergency for which the leave recipient was approved. Section 5. Leave transferred under this Article may be substituted retroactively for a period of leave without pay or used to liquidate an indebtedness for advanced annual or sick leave granted on or after a date fixed by the leave recipient's employing agency as the begin ning of the period of medical emergency for which LWOP or advanced annual or sick leave was granted. Section 6. An employee may submit a voluntary written request to the Agency that a specific number of hours of the donor's accrued annual or sick leave be transferred from the donor's leave account to the leave account of a specified leave recipient. Section 7. Limitations on donation of annual leave are as follows:

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