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B-195331 1 (1980-07-22)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadikx0001 and id is 1 raw text is: PLVL2 - -THE COMPTROLLERGERA E CI SN O0ly0F T H E UNI-TED. STATES 7/ W VA S NG TO0N 0 C 20'548a FILE: B-195331 DATE: July,22, 1980 MATTER OF: David W. Haggard - Use of POV An employee traveling under a General Travel Authorization, drove his POV to a 6-week training course. Because of weather conditions he missed the first 23 hours of the course. Upon his return he was told that use of his POV was not advantageous to Gov- ernment, even though situation met conditions of regulation permitting finding of advantage to Government. Agency action in using constructive travel by common carrier as basis for reimbursement and charging 15.hours of annual leave for travel- time is sustained, since there was no specific finding of use of POV as advantageous to Government. Two issues are presented here. -The first is whether an employee traveling on temporary duty may have his use of his privately owned vehicle (POV) considered to be advantageous to the Government under the term of the general travel order and applicable regulations where that. mode of travel was not specifically authorized or approved. The second issue is whether that employee should be charged annual leave when, because of Vieather conditions, his use of his POV instead of commercial transportation caused him to miss approximately 2 days of his temporary duty assign- ment. For the reasons set forth below, we hold that the employee's use of his POV was not advantageous to .the Gov- ernment, and the constructive computation of his travel was proper. Additionally, since we hold that the employee ;should have traveled by commercial carrier, we do not ques- tion the agency's charging him annual leave. The above questions were submitted for an advance decision by an authorized certifying officer of the National Finance Center of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). TMr. David W. Haggard is an employee of the Soil Conservation Service, stationed in /OAS1 . ;/,7t OIGEST:

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