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B-205206 1 (1982-06-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadklc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 0LEC IS1DN FILE: ,4 : TH3 CE3i 4PTRCLLIER GENERAL OF T i I-JN1TE10 ITATKS WASHINGUTON, DC. 20548 B-205206 • DAT E: June 28, 1982 MATTER C DIGEET: ,F, Daniel Bienstock 1. Applicable regulations provide that travel agents generally maay not be used to procure transportation for the Government where purchases can be made directly from American air carriers, However, the procurement of transportation through group or charter arrangements made by 'ravel agents for employees traveling on official business between points in the United States and point in foreign countries may be permitted upon an administrative deterrmination that it would result in subaitantial savings over the costs of regvlar individual air carriage. Thus, an employee of the Department of Energy who was invited to visit the People's Republic of China as a member of a committee of energy experts, would not be precluded from being reimbursed for his travel because he used the services of the sarre travel agent who had been employed by the other group members if the agency finds that substantial .avings were realized thereby, 2. An employee of the Department of Energy who was invited to vislt the People's Republic of China as one of a group of energy experts from the United States must abide by the Fly America Act requirement to travel aboard an American air carrier when available, The agency has not determined, and the facts pre- sented do not establish, that the employee's mission would not have been accomplished without une of the foreign carrier or that an Americtn carrier was not available. Thus, the employee is liable for the expense of his journey to and from China. An authorized certifying officer of the Department of Energy has requested a decision on whether an employee of that agency, Mr. Daniel Blienstock, nay be reimbursed for air paasage expenses he incurred in traveling aboard a foreign flag aft carrier between the United States and

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