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GGD-95-33R 1 (1995-01-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacksq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AO) Umted States (3 O General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 General Government Division B-258383 January 26, 1995 The Honorable John M. Spratt, Jr. House of Representatives Dear Mr. Spratt: In response to your November 9, 1993, request, we issued a report today entitled Reimbursed Travel: Commerce and FTC Generally Met Requirements But Some Improvements Needed (GAO/GGD-95-32). Our report describes our review of records of federal employees' travel at the Department of Commerce and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that was either partially or fully paid for by nonfederal entities. Under regulations promulgated by the General Services Administration (GSA), a federal employee can accept reimbursement of travel costs from nonfederal sources, such as private companies and universities, if the purpose of the travel is related to the employee's official duties and responsibilities and if the acceptance of such travel does not present the appearance of a conflict of interest. Overall, the records we reviewed indicated that reimbursed travel was appropriately approved and recorded at both agencies, but we made several specific recommendations to refine the approval process and improve the accuracy of travel records and reports. When you initially requested that we review this matter, a dispute existed between Commerce and the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) concerning whether OGE should be given access to Commerce's records of reimbursed travel during its review of Commerce's ethics program. Commerce believed that OGE should not have access to travel records because GSA, not OGE, issued the travel regulations. Accordingly, you asked us to determine the implications, if any, of Commerce's denying OGE access to its records of reimbursed travel and whether OGE should have taken additional actions to resolve this dispute. /53n-- GAO/GGD-95-33R OGE's Access to Commerce Travel Records

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