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B-198699 1 (1980-10-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadiph0001 and id is 1 raw text is: a. / C-1. THE COMPTROLLER GENER.AL DECISION . OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, 0. C. 20548 Aim44s eoiewvtf FILE: B-198699 DATE: October 6, 1980 MATTER OF: Darvin L. Lee - orfeited hotel depoit DIGEST: An employee of GSA in Portland, Oregon, deposited $33 for a hotel reservation in connection with temporary duty travel to Washington, D.C. The employee became ill, the travel was cancelled and, although hotel was notified of cancellation, the deposit was forfeited. Employee may be reimbursed for the forfeited hotel deposit. See Matter of Chris C. Rainey and Sidney A. Morse, B-194158, B-194900 (59 Comp. Gen. ), July 18, 1980.. By a letter dated April 30, 1980, Ronald J. Boomer, an authorized certifying officer with the General Services Administration (GSA), requests an advance decision on the request of Darvin L. Lee for reimbursement of a.hotel deposit in the amount of $33 whi-ch he forfeited after temporary duty travel was cancelled. The record shows that Mr. Lee, an employee of GSA whose official duty stationis Portland, Oregon, was scheduled for temporary duty in Washington, D.C., from March 26 until April 22, 1980. He paid an advance deposit of $33 to the Park Central Hotel in Washington, D.C. On March 17, 1980, Mr. Lee became ill and on March 24, 1980, his assignment was cancelled. An official at the Portland Field Office, GSA, telephoned the hotel on March 24 to cancel the reservation. However, the cancellation was not confirmed in writing. Afterwards, the hotel would neither acknowledge the cancellation nor refund the deposit. The certifying officer inquires if Mr. Lee may be reimbursed for the forfeited deposit in these circumstances under the authority of our decision B-148550, published at 48 Comp. Gen. 75 (1963) . In that decision we permitted the reimhurse- ment of a forfeited hotel deposit when official travel was cancelled. That decision was recentiv affirmed in Matter of Chris C. Rainey and Sidney A. Morse, B-194158, B-194900 (59 Comp. Gen. __), July 18, 1930, in which we stated when an employee or member of the uniformed.services in reasonable 3 1

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