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B-177491 1 (1973-06-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaadam0001 and id is 1 raw text is: - - - -4 4 4 . . .. 0,1 .5 I . p COMPTROLEIRGENERAL OF THK VUNI TATKS 0que W-IN7TOue 210 1973 - Wo. Petr Be5834an 2015 6th Avnua Lot No* 112A its i, ~ WIN77491 Uwwt21.'9I40 We rafer to your letter of Aprls1,a19739requesting re and rem idaration of a settlimt by our Tranportation sad Clatm Division dated April 3, a973, that disallowed your ,laim for aditional par diamn saianice for the period tust 29, 1972, hrough Jaucy 16, 1973. You are a substation conastruction inpcotor employed by the RomaviUe Power Administration (EPA), United States Dspartment of the Interlor, That agency assigned you to tepr.ary duty at Clarketon, WashinSton affective July 19, 1971, and you wved your family there on . Aupat 16, 1971, and established a reAldence in a mobile hm where you presently 'ive. You continued to woit vithlu oamuting distance of your rezidanco except for short tmporary asuipaentu away from your home and family,. - After you had resided in Clarkston for &'7ar IPA disallowd yotr claimfor additional per dim expenses on the basis that Clarkaton, Washington, had become your permanent realdemc, and in any avant agency policy as met forth in pargaph 233.6f of tba EPA Manual (EPAH), pre- eludes par diem payzantu for a period longer ti an one 7ear of continuons taqorry duty at one place vithout agency apprtrval, which ws not granted In your case. You contend that the aforementioned EPA policy serves to discriminate aaimt employees like yourself who choose to live wth their families t nobilm homes near their worksites and favors mpAoyees who leave their families at distant locations and ive in smafl travel trailers or cou- mercial lodging facilities near their work. This latter class of .uploymes, you maintain, receives continuous par dim allowances by virtue of short asignnts away Cron their primaty worksites that interrupt the ce-year tin 1altatiou, while the former class receives per dies allownces for only the Initial one-year period. In this connection you hre requsted tis Office to rule on the legality of this agency policy. 1'' 44c7C, q q '

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