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B-161396 1 (1976-05-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaddnw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DECISION I THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, 0..C_ 2054B B-161396 FILE: DATE: mgy 3 1976 Lq?9,ri MATTER OF: DIGEST: Per Diem, Travel and Transportation Allowance Committee Control No. 76-1B The Joint Travel Regulations may be amended to allow the Per Diem, Travel and Transporta- tion Allowance Committee to approve payment of special pir diem rates prescribed in Appendix F of the regulations for duty performed under unusual or extraordinary circumstances outside the continental United States subsequent to the performance of the duty. In such cases, the approval merely constitutes a determination that the duty was in fact performed under unusual circumstances contemplated by the regulations and would not involve retroactive determination of entitlement. This action is in response to a letter dated December 31, 1975, from the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Manpower and Reserve Affairs) requesting an advance decision concerning a proposal to amend Volume 1 of the Joint Travel Regulations (JT3) to authorize the use of special per diem allowance rates published in Appendix F of the JTR as distinguished from prescribing another rate. That letter was forwarded to our Office by letter dated January 16, 1976, by the Per Diem, Travel and Transportation Allowance Committee and was assigned PDTATAC Control No. 76-1B. The Assistant Secretary states that requests for special per diem allowances in cases otherwise proper, which are disapproved solely due to late receipt of such requests in the offices of the Per Diem, Travel and Transportation Allowance Committee, have prompted the restudy of our decision B-161396, August 23, 1967 (47 Comp. Gen. 127). The Assistant Secretary also states that our decision did not specifically consider whether the Secretaries concerned had the authority to permit the application of the prescribed Appendix F, JTR, special per diem rates in proper cases in lieu of the prescribed Appendix A, JTR, normal travel per diem rates when review revealed that the type of duty performed was in fact the type of duty for which the special per diem rates were intended. The Assistant Secretary points out that because of the nature of the duty involved, members of the uniformed services often find themselves

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