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DECISION
FILE:
B-180010. 09
MATTER OF:
DIGEST:.
DATE: December9, 1976
Joseph Pradarits - Arbitrator's Award
of Travel ErpenseE
1. Employee's request to use privately
owned vehicle (POV) as advantageous
to Government for temporary duty
travel was denied although official
told him it wouldtbe approved. Arbit-
rator held that employee should be
paid as though requesthad been ap-
proved since agency's failure to act
on it within time frame'in its regu-
lations Ptid official's statement amounted
to approval. Award miay'hotbe imple-
mented sinceno determination was
made that POV is.advantageous to
Government on boasis of cost, efficiency
or work requirements a. -CquirLd by
Federal Travel Regulations.
2. Although agency official indicated to an
employee that his requestto tse POV
as advantageous to the Government for
temporary duity travel viould be apptoved,
such statement does n6t bind Goverhmer.t
since official had no authority to approt e
POV use and Government is not estopped
from repudiating advice given by one
of its officials if that advice is erroreous.
This action involves ti.e request of July 13, 1976, by the Ex-
ecutive Director of the Federal Labor Relations Council (FLRC)
fbr' an advance dAcision as .to the legality of an arbitrator's award
which gralited reimbuixsement of ch-ttain travel expiAses and.re-
credit of leave in the rase of Ptiofessional .-Air Traffic Conttcl-
lersVOrtanization Ai'd Feieral Aviation. Ad'mmnistration, Eastern
Re nor (Wo6f,- Arbitrator), FLRC No. 'S-].U. THE case isbefore
eThi&Vderal Labor Relations Council as a result of a petition for
review filed by the the Department of Transportation alleging that the
arbitration award violates applicable law and appropriate regulationa.
FACTS
The record indicates that on March 12, 1974, the grievant, Mr. Joseph
Pradarits, a. employee of tne New York Air Route Traffic Control
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THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL
.. OP THE UNITED UTATER
WAEHINGTON, D.C. 20540
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