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DATE:  My  19, 198


OF: Brney   P. C. Boote -
    Actual cubsistence expense

 L  Employee  may not be reimbursed expenses
    claimed for apartment rental and utility and
    cleaning costs incurred In connection with
    prolonged temporary duty, since apartment
    is shared with her husband at his oficial
    duty station.

2.  Claims for dinners by an employee authorized
    actual subsistence expenses which are repe-
    titious in amount and are the maximum amount
    which may be claimed without a recipt under
    departmental regulations do not conform to the
    requirements o: para. 1-8. 5 of the Federal
    Travel Regulations. Accordingly, claims may
    notbe certified for payment, unless a deter-
    mination is made by the employi5ng agency
    that in the circumstances the amounts claimed
    are reasonable.


    This action is in repibnse to a request for advance decision
from Ms.  Ellen W. Cummings, a supervisor, Travel Subunit,
Financial Management Staff, of the Department of Justice, as to
whether the travel vouchers of Mrs. Burney P. C. Boote, an
employee of the Antitrust Division, Department of Justice, on
temporary duty in Nt w York, may be certified for payment.

   It is stated that Mrs. Boote is on prclonged temporary duty in
New York  City and that her vouchers show her official duty station
to be Washington. D. C. Checks hd receipts which slipport her
claim for lodging, which is an apartment rental, indicate that this
apartment is shared with her husband, Richard Boote, who' Is also
an employee of the Antitrust Division with an official duty station of
New York City. Mrs.  Boote is claiming the entire expense of the
apartment rental along with telephone, utility, and maid service
charges to arrive at her daily lodgings costs. It is stated that


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