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FPCD-81-49 1 (1981-05-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabbzp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON D.C. 20548 B-203000MA2718 , ,,+ ,+, ... ........... ,,,,* m ::, :i a, a + M A Y 27, 1981 RELEASED The Honorable Charles H. Percy United States Senate Dear Senator Percy: 115409 Subject: Travel By Certain Noncareer Government Officials (FPCD-81-49) On January 30, 1981, you asked us to review records in seven departments for travel performed by Schedule C employees during the post-election transition period. Representatives of your office later modified this request to include executive level and noncareer Senior Executive Service employees in Washington, D.C., and Chicago, Illinois. As of November 7, 1980, the seven departments had 944 employees in these positions. Our objectives were to determine (1) how many of the speci- fied noncareer employees traveled between November 7, 1980 (the date specified in your letter), and January 20, 1981, (2) their destination, (3) the cost of the trips, and (4) the purpose. We performed our work at the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the seven departments--Agriculture, Commerce, Energy, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, the Interior, and Labor. We reviewed copies of travel authorizations and travel vouchers for noncareer employees who traveled during the transi- tion period, and we summarized data from those documents. As your office requested, we did not take the additional time to ob- tain agency comments on this report. We found that 333 noncareer officials took 798 trips during the transition period. Those trips cost about $454,000. About 94 percent were domestic trips; that is, within or among the 50 States, U.S. territories and possessions, and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. These trips lasted an average of 4 days and cost an average of $474. The remaining 6 percent were trips to foreign countries, which lasted an average of 9 days and cost an average of $2,089. About 70 percent of the trips began during the 5-week period immediately following the November election. (See enclo- sure.) (966007)

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