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B-196059(BRP) 1 (1979-12-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabjqi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I Z3- COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 B- 196059(BRP) December 18, 1979 S The Honorable Herman E. Talmadge United States Senate Dear Senator Talmadge: We refer to your letter of September -L0, 1979, with enclosures, in which you request report concerningreimbursement of actual subsistence expenses ncurred by Mr. Dallas R. Marlowe, an employee of Robins Air Force1 ase, Georgia, while performing temporary duty I'2o in the Melville/Plainview, Long Island, New York, area in June 1978. The facts and circumstances of record, briefly stated, are as follows: Mr. Marlowe was authorized a per diem allowance of $35 per day to perform temporary duty in the Melville/Plainview area on June 20, 21, and 22, 1978. The Melville/Plainview area Shas not been designated as a high rate geographical area by the General Services Administration, as authorized by the Travel Expense Amendments Act of 1975, Public Law 94-22, May 19, 1975. Mr.Marlowe states that it is impossible to hold actual expenses within the maximum $35 per diem allowed in the Melvill'e/ Plainview area. He reports that the least expensive and acceptable motel accommodations available anywhere in the area are $32. f 0 per day. He states that by using the tax exemption , form, the daily motel rate is lowered to $30, which leaves $5 per day to purchase three meals in an area where inexpensive meals cannot be found. During his temporary duty assignment in June 1978, his actual subsistence expenses exceeded the $35 per diem allowance by more than 10 percent. He was reimbursed at the . per diem allowance rate of $35 per day. Mr. Marlowe further reports that Civilian Personnel Pamphlet 64, .~Civilian Travel and Transportation, revised April 15, 1979, and issued Nby the Department of Defense, states that an actual subsistence expense allowance may be authorized or approved when, because of the unusual nature of the conditions encountered on the assignment, the actual and necessary meal and lodging costs exceed the maximum per diem allowance by 10 percent or more, or when you have no alternative but to incur lodging costs which absorb all or-nearly all 4 'N

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