PARTIES TO DISPUTE:

STATEMENT OF CLAIM:

 "1. Is claimant entitled to compensation for pay loss due to the maintenance of multiple seniority rosters in the RCAO office Topeka, Kansas:

 2. Is claimant entitled to compensation for pay loss due to the creation of excepted positions;

 3. Is claimant entitled to position No. 5021 in Waybill Control from March 1, 1982, through the present:

 4. Is claimant entitled to the difference between his regular rate of pay and the rate of pay for excepted position No. 5021 beginning March 1, 1982, and continuing through the present;
5. Is claimant entitled to compensation for pay loss due the abolishment of Rule 14;

 6. Is claimant entitled to the difference between eighth rate pay and third rate pay due to the abolishment of Rule 14;

 7. Is claimant entitled to severance pay following the closing of the RCAO in Amarillo, Texas;

 8. Is claimant required to follow normal grievance/dispute procedures."

 OPINION OF BOARD: This Board finds the reasoning and findings set forth in
 Award 25712 are applicable to the facts of this dispute. For these reasons, we affirm that this Claim was not handled in the usual manner as provided in the controlling Agreement and, accordingly, did not comply with Section 3, First (i) of the Railway Labor Act or Circular No. 1 of the National Railroad Adjustment Board.

 FINDINGS: The Third Division of the Adjustment Board, after giving the
 parties to this dispute due notice of hearing thereon, and upon
 the whole record and all the evidence, finds and holds:

 That the Carrier and the Employes involved in this dispute are respectively Carrier and Employes within the meaning of the Railway Labor Act as approved June 21, 1934;
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        That this Division of the Adjustment Board has jurisdiction over the

dispute involved herein; and'

        That the claim is barred.


                          AWARD


        Claim dismissed.


                            NATIONAL RAILROAD ADJUSTMENT BOARD

                            By Order of Third Division


Attest:
      'Nancy J. D - Executive Secretary


Dated at Chicago, Illinois, this 27th day of November 1985.