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B-210717.2 1 (1984-02-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadlod0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Q I. rTHE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OUCIIlON - OP THE UNITED STATES WASHrNGTON. 0. C. 20548 FILE: B-210717.2 DATE: February 24, 1984 MATTER OF: Defense Logistics Agency - Airline Promotional Programs DIQEST: The Defense Logistics Agency may not set up procedures under which promo- tional benefits that were received by an employee while on official travel on behalf of the Government may be returned to the employee. Pertinent regulations provide for the disposition of these promotional materials and do not provide for returning these benefits to the employee. Furthermore the employee who 1 received these benefits did so on behalf of the Government and has no property right to these benefits. The Director of the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) has requested our decision concerning airline promotional benefits received as a result of travel by an employee on official duty. The issue in this case is whether DLA may establish procedures under which benefits which were received by the employee while on official travel on behalf of the Government may be returned to the employee for his personal use after the DLA determines that the Government is unable to use those benefits. We hold that the DLA may not set up such procedures since the promotional material is property of the Government and should be handled in accord- ance with pertinent regulations of the General Services Administration. See B-210717, dated today. The DLA has established a policy which requires an employee to surrender benefits received as a result of official travel to the transportation offices. The agency states that this policy is based on our decision John B. Currier, 59 Comp. Gen. 95 (1979), in which we stated that the policy was necessary to avoid a conflict of interest and to prevent reimbursement to the employee from private service. The agency argues that they have adopted suffi- cient management controls to make the possibility of such abuses remote. Therefore, they propose to revise their system so that an employee who turns these benefits into the Government, may have the benefits returned to the .1 13 19q OX 1-

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