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B-198523 1 (1980-10-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadipl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Transferred employee of Water and Power Resources Service reclaims $414-.13 in subsistence expenses disallowed by agency as unreason- able in accordance with para. 2-5.4a of the FTR and our decision Jesse A. Burks, 55 Comp. Gen. 1107 (1976) and '56 id. 604 (1977). Employing agency has initial responsibility to deter- mine reasonableness of expenditures for subsistence while occupying tem- porary quarters. Where agency has exercised that responsibility, GAO will not substitute its judgement for that of the agency in the absence of evidehce that the agency's deter- mination was clearly erroneous, arbitrary, or capricious. Kathryn E. Mitchell, an authorized certifying . officer for the Water and Power Resources Service, U.S. Departwde:it of the Interior, requests an advance decision of this Office in co(nnection with a reclaim voucher filed by Mr. Eugene R. Pori following the acencv's partial disallowance of -his claim for sub- sistence expenCes he incurred while occunying tem- porary quarters. The expenses renresented by the reclaim voucher may be allowed to the extent indicated in the folIowing a.nalysis. Mr. Pori, an employee of the Water and Power Resources Service, Lower Missouri Region, transfer- red from Libby, Mcontana, to Casper, WyomiLng, repo-rting September 19, 1979. From that date until October 18, 1979, Mr. Pari and his three dependents -occupied tem- porary quarters. For subsistence while occupying temporary quarters du-ri ng this period Mr. Peri filed a claim for `1,722.13, which the agency suspended for further clarification. The agency indicated that in accordance with para. 2-5.4a of the Federal 40 7 DIGEST: I ~ >&THE COMVPTROLLER GENERAL DECISIOl . . OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 FILE: B-198523 DATE: October 6, 1980 MATTER OF: Eugene R. Pori 3Temporary quarters sub- sistence expense4

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