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B-185885 1 (1976-11-08)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaddzd0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DIEC 1 SION oTHEI COMPTnOLLER GeNERAL ..OF THE UNiTn aATEs WASHINGTON. D.C. 20540 e .WTED FILE: B-185885 MATTER DIGEST; DATTE: November 6, 1976 OFtRichard Washington - Claim for actual subsistence expenses at official duty station Employee claims actual subsistence expenses at his official duty station incident to his duties as coordinator for Vice-President's Public Forum on Domestic Policy which required his continued presence at local hotel. However, absent specific statutory authority, employee is not entitled to subsistence or per diem at official duty station regardless of any unusual working conditions. This action is in response to the request for an advance decision from Ms. May V. Smith, an authorized certifying officer of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Regiol IX, reference 9AF, regarding payment of the voucher of Mr. Richard lastington, an employee of HUD, for actual subsistence expenses incurred at his official duty station. The record iadicates Mr. Washington was assigned to the logistics team vbich was responsible for all local arrangements for the Vic6-0resident's Public Forum on Domestic Policy held at the Los Angeles Convention Center on December 9, 1975. Mr. Washington states that his responsibilities as executive assistant of the losistics tEam required his presence at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Los Angeles from December 6 through De:ember 10, 1975, to handle any problems arising from the arrangenents made at the hotel or the Convention Center. His voucher Ys prepared or an actual expense basis and includes lodging at the hotel for 4 nights and meals for 5 days. The authorized certifying officer questions whether the voucher may be paid i-a light of the fact that Mr. Washington's official duty station is Los Angules and in light of paragraph 1-7.6a of the Federal Travel Regulations (FPMR 101-7) (May 1973), and a decision of this Office, 53 Comp, Gen. 457 (1974), cited in tha submission as B-179584, January 4, 1974.

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