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B-191282 1 (1978-09-29)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadglh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: :& ~O'~ DIGEB 7l TH1 COMPTMCLI- VERAL . .M .or THM UNIT .AES . WASHINGTON. El ... *0548 DATE: Septaber 29, 1978 Walter D. Felzke - Claim for Travel Expense Employee traveled ma passenger in privately owned automobile and Shared expensea, instead of by common carrier or other mode of travel specified in his travel authorization. He is entitled to reimbursement of amount clAmed not to exceed constructive cost of travel by least expensive mode authorized, unless the driver of the automobile was also a Federal employee who received mileage. This action is in response to the requeat for an advance decision from Winnifred L. Sikes, authorized certifying officer, :outhwestern-Power Administration, Department of Energy, con- cerning payient of a reclaim travel voucher for Walter D. Felzke, an employee of the Department of Energy. 'Mr. Felzke was authorized under a blanket travel authori- zation, no. 78-310-1, dated September- 27, 1977, to trave:\ un official at*ncy business from his duty station, Tulsa, Okl'homa, to any point in the United States, and return to Tulaa, during the perIod October 1, 1977, through September 30, 1978,. The authorization is for travel by common carrier, Government-owned conveyance,.or privately owned automobile subject to administrative determination of advantage to the Government. The reclaim voucher concerns a trip between Tulsa and New Orleans,' Louisiana, froa November 1 to November 4, 1977. On this occasion, Mr. Felzke elected to travel as a passenger in a privately owned automobile (PGA), and to pay the vehicle owner one-half of the transportation expensbs for this trip. In his travel voucher, Mr. Felzke listed this expense as $71. This $71 item was disallowed by the certifying officer. Her basis for disallowance was that travel was not performed in accordance with mode of travel authorized.n Federal Travel Regulations (FTH) (FPMR 101-7, May 1973) para. 1-4.3 provides it' pertinent part, that: when use' bftprivately 6i6d conveyance is in lieu of common carrier transportation. When- ever a privately owned conveyance is used for'.. official purposes as a matter of personal I. ?ft IPECI5Iil FILE: 8-191282 MATTER OF:

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