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B-175744 1 (1973-11-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaadus0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 4 ----/-. -'-- 4 -----,,I---'. ,O - ,- . *I COMPTNOlJ2zgXONilAL or Wt ti NITED Arn 659~ 7,; WAS11INOTONLU D 1NSW u-175744 November 150 19711 Hr. LeRoy T. Buchanan 309 Sucter Street Portsouth, Virginia 23702 Dear. Hr. Buchanan; We refer to your letter of July 23, 1973p in which you raise certain questions with respect to our decision of June 6, 1973, B175744p to you, sugtnluing the action-of Qutr Tranupor- tation and Claims Division which disallowed youtf/claim for -dditional per diem allowancein connection with'treporary duty you performed at the Philald'.phia Naval Shipyard in late 1969 and early 1970. We are also in recetpt of correspondence from Congressman Robert W. Daniel, Jr., p in your behalf. The facts in your case were stated in our decision of June 6, 1973, and need not be repeated here except as pertinent to the present discussion of the case, You have submitted no new information in the matter except to flate that you have been in contact with personnel from the Charleston Naval Shipyard who were on temporary duty in Philadelphia at the same time you were and who claim that they received per diem at the rate of 425 per day for the entire period of their assignment rather than having it reduced as did you and others from the Norfolk aval Shipyard. You also rifer to our decision 33-177431, February 23p.1973, wherein it was t.e thit thie per diem of employeeo assigned to temporary duty tn Long Beach, Californiap was Improperly reduced oa the basis that current housing surveys had not baen made. Therefore, those employees were entitled to additional per diem for the duration of their asuignment# You question %bsther a proper survey wait made of available housing in the Philadelphia area at'the time of your temporary duty and ask' for the results of that survey- As to your contention that employees from Cherleston did not have theirper diem reduced while on temporary duty in Philadelphia, we have been informally advised that the Comptroller of the Charleston Shipyard performed a spot check of the per diem paid Charleston employeis who were in Philadelphia at the time in question. It was found thnt, of the employees checked, all who had temporary duty assignmetein excess of 30 days had their per diem rateh% C)' BEST DOCUMENT AVAII ARI F 9 9.tb.......

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