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B-198008 1 (1980-09-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadiol0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GEN ERAL DECISION OF THE UNITED STATES W /AS H IN GTO N D .C. 20 54 8 FILE: B-198008 DATE: SEP 1 7 19e0 MATTER OF: Savings & Loan Examiners - Expenses for travel of less than 24 hours DIGEST: 1. Federal Home Loan Bank Board questions whether it may establish different per diem policies for employees traveling less than 24 hours. Since agencies may consider factors which will reduce em- ployee's expenses such as familiarity with locality through repeated travel, Board may limit per diem under certain circumstances. See FTR para. 1-7.3a. Agencies need not pay the same per diem rate to different employees, but, in the interest of fairness, agencies should limit per diem under uniform guidelines applicable to all employees. 2. Federal Home Loan Bank Board questions whether it may pay fixed flat $3 rate for commuting expenses in lieu of per diem where travel is less than 24 hours. Al- though FTR provides reimbursement of per diem on quarter-day basis, agencies have broad discretion to limit or deny per diem for travel of less than 24 hours. See FTR para. 1-7.3a and B-182728, February 18, 1975. In view of such broad discretion, agencies may limit per diem to flat rate reimbursement where travel is less than 24 hours. 3. Federal Home Loan Bank Board questions whether it may limit per diem reimburse- ment to travel periods exceeding 11 hours and to areas outside a radius around em- ployee's official duty station. Board may so limit reimbursement since agencies have broad discretion to limit or restrict per diem under FTR para. 1-7.6d(l). See B-180010.11, March 9, 1977. I~33

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