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B-208016 1 (1982-11-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadksp0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 04)S )I \. THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION -o-r-A oP THE UNITED STATES iWASHINGTON. 0. C. 20548 FILE: B-208016 DATE: November 16, 1982 MATTER OF: Ralph Palmer - Mileage Between Home and Common Carrier Terminal DIGEST: Employee was driven to and picked-up from airport when he went on temporary duty travel. Airport used was 45 miles from employee's home and 33 miles from duty station. There was a closer airport in same town as duty station, but appropriate air carrier service was not available. Use of commercial bus to airport actually used had been found to be neither coven- ient nor cost effective by transporation officer. Fact that airport used was not the closest to duty station does not preclude reimbursement of round-trip mileage under Volume 2 of the Joint Travel Regulations, paragraph C4657, or under Federal Travel Regulations paragraph 1-4.2(c)(1), where airport used was near- est serviceable airport offering appropri- ate carrier service. Reimbursement is still limited to no more than one-way taxi fare. The Finance and Accounting Officer, Pine Bluff Arsenal, Arkansas, requests an advance decision concerning an employ- ee's claim to reimbursement for mileage for round-trip travel by a privately owned vehicle (POV) from the employ- ee's home in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, to the air terminal in Little Rock, Arkansas, en route to Rock island, Illinois, for temporary duty. The question is whether the full 90-mile round trip is reimbursable, in light of the fact that another airfield was located much closer, and other common carrier service was available to Little Rock. We hold that the claim is payable because the Little Rock airport is the nearest airport having the needed carrier service, and travel by POV was reasonable and advantageous to the Government. The case was forwarded to us through the Per Diem, Travel and Transportation Allowance Committee, and was assigned PDTATAC Control No. 82-16.

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