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B-191190 1 (1980-02-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadhzs0001 and id is 1 raw text is: B-191190 DATE: February 13, 1980 MATTER O DIGEST: F: Dwight G. Garretson (1) Overseas employee of Federal Bureau of 0 Investigation (FBI) permaiently assigned to Caracas, Venezuela, traveled from Caracas to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, in order to receive medical treatment. Government funds may not be used to pay employee's travel since at the time of such travel there was no specific statutory authorization for payment of medical travel for overseas employees of the FBI. (2) In the absence of clear Congressional intent to the contrary and in view of strict rules of statutory construction concerning retroactive application of laws, the medical travel benefits extended to overseas employees of the FBI by section 2(8) of the Department of Justice Appropriation Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1979, apply only to medical travel which occurred on or after the beginning of fiscal year 1979. Employee's travel which occurred prior to the beginning of fiscal year 1979 is not payable under this new provision. (3) Employee may not be reimbursed for the travel expenses incurred by his wife from Caracas, Venezuela, to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to be with employee who traveled there for medical treatment since there is no basis for payment of the employee's travel expenses and there is no authority to pay for an attendant when travel of employee is not authorized. The issue is whether Mr. Dwight G. Garretson, an overseas employee of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), is /1`TA- k cL 5 10L FILE: Plax - THE CO.IIPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548

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