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B-195025 1 (1979-10-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadhro0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 1/733 C. THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION - OF THE UNITED STATES VWASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 FILE: ~ f ~ ,ATE October 2199 MATTER OF: Richard L. Greene - Personal Injury - eturn of Automobile to Permanent Duty Station DIGEST: Employee on temporary duty travel may be reimbursed payment to private firm for transporting his privately owned vehicle back to permanent duty station, since injury prevented his operation of vehicle on return trip. 5 U.S.C. § 5702(b) and FTR para. 1-2.4 autho- rize expense of return of vehicle to permanent duty station when employee is incapacitated not due to mis- conduct. 44 Comp. Gen. 783 (1965) and B-176128, August 30, 1972, overruled. This decision responds to the request of Richard L. Greene, an employee of the Department of Commerce, who appeals our Claims Division's denial of reimbursement for transporting his automobile. The issue is whether an employee may be reimbursed the cost of transporting his privately owned vehicle (POV) back to his permanent duty station when he incurred the cost because he suffered bodily injury while on temporary duty preventing him from driving the vehicle. Mr. Greene, stationed in Dallas, Texas, was authorized mileage for temporary duty travel by POV. While on temporary duty, he was in an autombile accident requiring his hospitalization in Salt Lake City, Utah, August 8-10, 1977. Because of his injuries he was unable to drive his POV, and he returned to Dallas by air transportation at Gov- ernment expense. He paid a private firm $174.65 to return his POV to Dallas, and he claims reimbursement of this amount. We have held in cases such as Mr. Greene's that there is no authority permitting reimbursement for the additional expense of transporting the POV to the duty station, since the Government has paid airfare for transporting the injured employee. 44 Comp. Gen. 783 (1965); B-176128, August 30, 1972. Upon further consideration, we now overrule those decisions. Congress has provided in 5 U.S.C. § 5702(b) that, under regulations prescribed by the Administrator of General Services, an employee, incapacitated by illness or injury not due to his own misconduct while on official travel away from his duty station, is entitled to L off rf 0 1194Ift

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