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B-182697 1 (1975-06-09)

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                             CTHE COMPTRL      .ER   GENERAL
      DgCI-gO u . OF THE UNITE3 STATES
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FILE:                               DATE:    JUN     1975
       3-182697
MVATTER   OF:
               Andrew W. Stanfield - Request for travel expenses
               incident to assignment under the Intergovernmental
DIGEST:        Personnel Act of 1970
          Federal employee on detail to State government under
          Intergovernmental Personnel Act of 1970 may be reimbursed
          for travel expenses while away from place .of assignment when
          head of Federal agency considers travel in the interest of
          the United States.  5 U.S.C. 5 3375(a)(1)(C) (1970).

     This decision is rendered in response to a submission by
R. J. White, Certifying Officer, Office of Economic Opportunity
(OEO), requesting an advance decision regarding payment of a claim
for travel expenses of Mr. Andrew W. Stanfield.

     Mr. Stanfield was detailed to the Department of Health of the
State of New Jersey from a position in OEO for a period of 2 years
under the provisions of the Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA)
of 1970, 5 U.S.C. §1 3371-3376 (1970), effective November 1, 1972,
and ending October 31, 1974.  At the time of his detail the Standard
-korm 5U ordering the action indicated at block 25 that his duty
station was to be Trenton, New Jersey. On October 23, 1974, shortly
before the end of his detail with the New Jersey Department of Health,
Mr. Stanfield traveled from his residence in Orange, New Jersey, to
Washington, D.C., to confer with the Director of OO in regard to
his future detail assignment and other OEO matters. He remained in
Washington until October 30, 1974, when he returned to Orange. The
travel was performed pursuant to a Request and Authorization of
Official Travel which had been signed by the Director-Designate of
OEO.

     Mr. Stanfield was detailed, effective November 1, 1974, to a
different position, with the City of Newark, New Jersey, Housing
Authority, also under the provisions of the IPA. Mr. Stanfield
submitted a travel voucher for his travel to Washington and that
voucher is the basis for the certifying officer's request.

     The certifying officer notes that section 401 of the IPA,
84 Stat. 1920, states that The purpose of this title is to provide
for the temporary assignment of personnel between the Federal
Government and State and local governments and institutions of

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