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B-194641 1 (1980-02-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadiae0001 and id is 1 raw text is: -I I DECISION FILE: B-194641 MATTER OF: DIGEST: 0LE; 1 THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 DATE: February 19, 1980 Eugene M. Sestile - Reimbursement of Subsistence Expenses Employee claims reimbursement for meals consumed in travel status that duplicate meals on airplane flights. General rule is that duplicative meals may not be reimbursed in absence of justifiable rea- son as to why extra meals were necessary. Employee's argument that airplane dinner was not full course meal to which he was ac- customed does not constitute justifiable reason permitting reimbursement of that meal. Also, employee's contention that inflight breakfast would not have been served until 10 a.m., is rebutted by airline's statement that breakfast on that flight is normally served around 9 a.m. Mr. John W. Rice Jr., an authorized certifying officer of the National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationLNASA), requests our decision concerning the propriety of reimbursing two meals purchased by an employee incident to temporary duty travel to Vandenburg Air Force Base, California. The agency denied reimburse- ment since the employee was provided duplicative meals by the air- line. The employee, Mr. Eugene M. Sestile, was ordered to perform temporary duty to attend a meeting at Vandenburg AFB and to inspect equipment at Palmdale, California, November 14 through 17, 1978. Incident to that assignment, he claimed reimbursement for dinner in the amount of $10 on the night of his arrival in California and for breakfast in the amount of $3 on the morning of his return flight to his permanent duty station in Florida. Reimbursement for these two items was not allowed by NASA on the basis that he was provided dinner on Delta flight 1125 from Orlando, Florida, to Los Angeles, California, and that breakfast was provided on Delta flight 1128 to Orlando. The agency cited as authority for the disallowance a decision of this Office, Bennie L. Pierce, B-185826, May 28, 1976, tothe

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