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B-189731 1 (1978-01-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadfmt0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DECISION I I I I K MATTER DIGEST: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL .F THE UNITED STAyU WAB INWTON. 0.C. SO54e DATE: January 3o 1978 OF: Jon C. Geist - Per Diem - Temporary Duty Near Headquarters Civilian employee of National Bureau of Standards whose official station was in Gaithersburg, Maryland, incurred sub- sistence and lodring expenses while performing official business in Alexandria, Virginia, approximately 40 miles from official station. Where employce's duty required his pre 'nce during such hours as to render daily travel between temporary station and residence impracticable, thus putting him to greater subsistence expense ..than ordinarily incurrel at headquarters, ; employee was properly authorized a per diem allowance and his claim may be paid. Ms. Emma Axline, an authorized certifying officer, National Bureau of Standards (NBS), United States Department of Com- inerce, by letter datid July 20, 1977, with enclosures, requested our advance decision as to whether she may properly certify for payment a voucher submitted by Mr. Jon C. Geist, an employee of the agency, for reimbursement of meals, lodging, and telephone calls incurred by him while on temporary duty in Alexandria, Virginia, from January 23 through 27, 1977. The facts upon waich the claim is based are as follows: By Travel Order No. W71633 approved January 19, 1977, Mr. Geist, a physicist, was authorized a per diem allowance, estimated to be $210, for expenses to be incurred while serving on an evaluatn panel to review a proposal for Space Lab 2 and the Orbi, flight Test Mission. Mr. Geist resides in Oilney, Maryland; his official duty station is Gaithersburg, Maryland; and the panel meeting was held in Alexandria, Virgi% ia. Inasmuch as the panel was scheduled to convene early in the mornings and to continue until late in the evenings. the travel order authorized per diem on the basis that it would be very inconvenient to drive back and forth every day. Agency officials advise us that it would have been an unnecessary inconvenience and an imposition on the employee C 00' a FILE: B-189731

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