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B-150217 1 (1976-01-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaddql0001 and id is 1 raw text is: L. FILE: B-150217 DATE: January 2, 1976 MATTER OF: Department of the Interior - Reimbursement of actual subsist- ence expenses based on unusual DIGEST: circumstances 1. Public Law No. 94-22 provides express authority to reimburse employees for actual subsist- ence expenses for travel to high cost areas designated in travel regulations. Accord- ingly, agencies which believe that other localities should be so designated, should request General Services Administration to add those localities to the listing in the Federal Travel Regulations of high cost areas. 2. General Accounting Office would not object to appropriate changes that General Services Adminis- tration (GSA) might wish to make in criteria for determining when unusual circumstances exist so as to justify actual expense reimbursement-to travelers. Also, GSA is not precluded by law or legislative history from modify- ing the Federal Travel Regulations by citing additional situations involving unusual circumstances. This decision involves a request from the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior dated March 7, 1975, that we review our decision in 42 Comp. Gen. 440 (1963) concerning the propriety of authorizing reimbursement of subsistence expenses on an actual expense basis. In 42 Comp, Gen. 440, supra, we held that an Air Force regulation authorizing reimbursement of employees on an HE2D -mrr E .- MOM_9~ 01~LER THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION OF. THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 J&P J-

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