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B-203857 1 (1981-12-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadjya0001 and id is 1 raw text is: /1 it Ivm COMPTSCLUR THlE UNITED MUNERAL Al TAT It M /IN-/ WASHINGTON, DO, 2 0546 B-203857 DATE: December 15, MATTER OF; Rlcky E, Eapenses Virgne - Actual Subsistence - Laundry Expenses DIGEST: Employee was authorized actual subsis- tence expenses for terrp6rary duty assignment in Washington, PC,, from September 1980, until January 1981, Employee claims la ndry and dry cleaninvi expenses ranging from 7i25 to $10.30 for each working d4y of the assignment, Employees are requiged by Fereral Travel Regulations paragraph l-1#3a to act pr- dently in incurring expensea while traveling on official businens, Employee is entitled to only reaponable amounts for laundry expenses, Agency must make initial determination as to what is a reasonable amount, This Office will not disturb agency determintion unless clearly erroneous or arbitrary or capricious. Lieutenant Commander Co M# Lampinan, Accounrting and, Finance Officer, Defense Logistics Agency,(yequists an ad- Vance decipion asto what constitutes a reasonable amount that an employee may be reimbursed for laundry aiA dry cleaning expenses under the actual subsistence expenses method.; The request was forwarded here by the Per Diem, Tcavel and Transportation Allowance Committee, and bas been assigned PDTATAC Control Not 81-17. Mr. Riccy E, Virgnej an auditorjstationed in Austini Texasj/was assignid to Washingt9n, D.C., to assist in th, 1982 fiscal year budget review*,) The temporary duty assign- ment began on Septemlber 25, 1980, and continued until January 1981. fir, Virgnoj was authorized actual subsis- tence expenses, not to exceed $50 per day# That amount was increased to $75 per day, effective October 5,,1980>.by, Ap- pendix E to Volume 2 of the Joint Travel Regulations. (.In support of his claims for actual subsistence expenses, Mr. Virgne submitted an itemization for each day's claimed expenses. The only item questioned by the agency is Mr. Virgne's claim for laundry expenses, which ranged '4 I Gj * . . - -r,**i' * . - * . . . . .SS 06. 4 Ii DECISION FILE: 1981

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