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093046 1 (1970-12-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacwxz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 09304o UNITED - CCUINT iNG 'IFFICE WASr-IINGTON, D.C. 20548 C V VIS IN DEC 4 1970 BEST DOCUMENT AVAILABLE Dear Mr. Blount: The General Accounting Office has reviewed selected aspects of the Bureau o.f Research and Engineering (Bureau), Post Office Depart- ment, administrative procedures and controls over travel activities. We found that the Bureau had not given sufficient attention to certain matters concerning travel administration. Travel advances issued to many of the 389 Bureau professional staff, who were covered by a blanket travel order as of June 30, 1969, ...ea outstanding for extended periods during which the employees eicher did not travel or performed only limited travel. We believe zhat the outstanding travel advances, which amounted to about $40,000 ac June 30, 1969, and $39,000 at June 30, 1970, were in excess of the ounts needed to meet reimbursable expenses incurrec' by many travelers. Travel commissions, which are credentials issued to designated ameloyees for their use in obtaining free transportation on trains, ;uses, and boats, and transportation request (TR) books were retained by Bureau professional employees for extended periods even though they did not travel or traveled infrequently. We believe that the retention of TR's by many of these employees was unnecessary and contributed to weaknesses we noted in travel administration. Also, we question the need for employees to hold travel commissions particularly when Govern- ment travel regulations provide for advances to be made and transporta- tion requests to be issued to meet travelers' necessary expense requirements. Department procedures do not provide for effective periodic re- views to determine whether the frequency of travel performed by employees justifies the retention o outstanding travel advances, travel comissions, and TR books. Since the same procedures followed by the Bureau are prescribed for use by all bureaus in the Department, it is likely that the same situation in regard to the administration of travel ;ay exist in the other bureaus. Advances outstanding Department-wide as of June 30, 1969, and 1970 amounted to more than $600 thousand and $1.1 million, respectively. 2j1QL/

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