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B-186310 1 (1977-02-16)

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DA'YE: February 16, 1977


OF:  Alan B. Cailson - Home leave travel and
     temporary duty travel

 1. There is no requireiuc  that an aligible
    employee take home leave at the same
    time as hin dependents. Neither is
    there a requirement that the home leave
    be taken at the place of actual resi-
    dence in the United Statei. However,
    where dependents of employee tabA home
    leave at location in the United States
    other than employee's place of-resi-
    dence, employee is entitled to reim-
    bursement of travel expenses not to
    exceed the constructive cost of travel
    to the employee's place of actual
    residence.


          2.  An employee Is permitted to combine
              annual leave and a temporary duty
              assignment at the same time his
              immediate family is performing home
              leave travel and thus, travel together.

     This decision is in'response to alrequest dated April 6,
1976, from Mr. Ernest C. Cummins, an'aiuthorised certifying officer
for.the United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land
Management as to the propriety if paying the claim of Mr. Alan B.
Carlson, an employee of the Bureau of Land Management, for tempo-
rary duty travel and home leave travel.

     The record shows that travel authorization dated July 1,
1975, was issued to cover the home leave travel of Mr. Carlson,
his wife and four children. The travel authorization statied
that the family would travel on or about July 25, 1975, but the
employee would travel alone at a later date. Employee wanted
this delay, up to 12 months,because of a teriinal illness of a
close relative.  Mr. Carlson's place of actual residence was
determined to be Billings, Montana, and his duty station was
Anchorage, Alaska.  On July 25, 1975, the employee's wife and


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