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DE-CISION
FILE:
B-19998
MATTER OF:
THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL
OF THE UNITED STATES
WASHINGTON, 0. C. 20548
57 DATE: March 11, 1981
Darrell W. Fletcher - Per Diem and Temporary
Quarters Expense]
Employee, who occupies temporary quarters at old
duty station and interrupts occupancy for
permanent change of station as permitted by
FTR para. 2-5.2a, may elect not to count the day
of departure against his 30-day limit for temporary
quarters. The principles established in 57 Comp.
Gen. 696 (1978), and 57 Comp. Gen. 700 (1978) are
applicable regardless of whether the employee
interrupts his occupancy of temporary quarters for
purposes of temporary duty or change of station
travel.
By letter of June 27, 1980, LTC A.T. Holder, a Finance and
Accounting Officer at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, requested an
advance decision regarding the computation of per diem and
temporary quarters subsistence expenses for Mr. Darrell W.
Fletcher in connection with a permanent change of duty station
from the Federal Republic of Germany to Redstone Arsenal,
Alabama. This request was forwarded through the Per Diem, Travel
and Transportation Allowance Committee and assigned Control No. 80-28.
The record shows that Mr. Fletcher began occupying temporary
quarters at his old duty station in Germany on January 11, 1980.
He flew to New York on January 17, 1980, having departed from his
temporary quarters in Germany at 8:10 a.m. that day. The employee
picked up his privately owned vehicle at the Ocean Terminal in
Bayonne, New Jersey, on January 17 and drove to Alabama where he and
his dependents resumed occup.ancy of tcmpora ry quarters. The
specific question presented by the }finance and Accounting Officer
is whether January 17 should be counted against Mr. Fletcher's
30-day limit for temporary quarters subsistence expenses, since he
was in temporary quarters until 8:10 a.m. on that day. In addition,
he inquires whether Mr. Fletcher is entitled to per diem for three-
fourths or a full jay on January 17 in the event January 17 is not
charged against his temporary quarters authorization. For the
reasons stated below we find that January 17, the day Mr. Fletcher
departed Germany, need not be counted against his 30-day limit,
and we find that he is entitled to receive per diem for three-fourths
of the day of January 17.
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