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B-193197 1 (1980-01-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadhwl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: fL. / 24-q~ UNITE FILE: B-193197 DATE: January 10, 1980 MATTER OF: Michael G. Pond -LReimbursement for Expense Incident to Training Assignment)- R id La.'i DIGEST: econs erat on ) Agencies may not authorize reimbursement for nontemporary storage of household goods and expenses of shipping pria ld '1sin e legislative history of .C. 4r0 inIcatesvx congressional inten ot to include such authority. f 1 ')76 T l %, . ) Z3 j/ - , ntLer.gover nmenta Personnel Act. Payment of such items requires 4b legislation. .W') This decision is issued in response to a letter f m the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), requesting that we reconsider Comptroller General decision B-193197, February 5, 1979, 58 Comp. Gen. 253. In that decision we held that an employee sent overseas on a 2-year training assignment pursuant to 5 U.S.C. § 4109 (1976), was not entitled to reim- bursement for the nontemporary storage of his household goods and shipment of a privately owned vehicle (POV) and travel expenses related to the pick-up of his POV at the port. We so held because section 4109 of title 5 limits an employee's entitlement to travel and transportation allowances at Government expense to those enumerated in that section. Payment of travel and transportation expenses relating to periods of training is governed by the provisions of 5 U.S.C.' 5 4109 (1976), which provides that: (a) The head of an agency, under regulations prescribed * * * may-- * * * * * (2) pay, or reimburse the employee for, all or part of the necessary expenses of the training * * * including among the expenses the necessary costs of-- (A) travel and per diem instead of subsistence * * *: DECISION Y*N - I H L TlE OIVIPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549 op!

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