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B-201569 1 (1981-02-10)

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GAO
United States General Accounting Office         Office of
Washington, DC 20548                               General Counsel

                                                   In Reply
                                                   Referto: B-201569

                                      February 10, 1981
Mr. Roger Lewis
Vice-Chairman
Navajo & Hopi Indian Relocation
  Commission
2717 N. Steves Boulevard
Building A
Flagstaff, Arizona 86001

Dear Mr. Lewis:

     By letter of December 15, 1980, you requested our general
views concerning the ossible use of travel agents by -he-
Navajo & Hopi Indian Relocation Commissio-7(Commission). You
state that the Commission is a small independent Federal agency
whose members and staff must travel to Washington frequently to
carry out responsibilities mandated by the Congress. Addition-
al travel to regional Federal offices in San Francisco and
other interstate travel are anticipated because of recent leg-
islation delegating further responsibilities to the Commission.
You also state that your staff has advised you that the Com-
mission cannot use a travel agent in an effort to obtain re-
duced rate travel, such as air fares, to economize. You ask
what are the legal or regulatory impediments to the use of
travel agents by Federal agencies.

     The current prohibition against, the use of travel agents
for procuring official Government travel is contained in regu-
lations of the General  Accounting Office (GAO) , 4 C.F.R. 52.3(a)
(1980).

     However, we issued a circular letter, dated August 20,
1979 (copy enclosed), to the heads of all Government agencies
and departments stating our willingness to lift the ban for
individual agencies on the basis of analyses that adequately
demonstrate economies to be achieved or to allow tests of the
use of travel agents for the purpose of demonstrating whether
savings and efficiencies  will result.

     As the circular indicates, any Federal agency may submit
a plan to this Office which provides reasonable evidence that
permitting the use of travel agents will result in a more





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