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B-208727 1 (1983-01-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadkvk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 4*1 0LLEkC ~ ~ THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL,, -- DECISION . . OF THE UNITED STATES WASHiNGTON, 0..C. 20548 FILE: B-208727 DATE: January 20, 1983 MATTER OF: Walter Wait - Entitlement to Lodging Expenses DIGEST: An employee claims reimbursement for lodg- ing expenses incurred on the evening prior to the day he began temporary duty. He is entitled to reimbursement even though he did not perform official duty on that day. He had been issued a General Travel Authorization permitting him to travel without specific prior authorization. He took annual leave on Friday for personal travel and traveled to his temporary duty site on Sunday rather than returning to his official duty station and proceeding to his temporary duty site on Monday. Since he began work Monday morning the lodgings expenses on Sunday are incident to official duty under the circumstances of the travel. Mr. Rudie Maez, an authorized certifying officer with the National Park Service, Southwest Region, requests an advance decision concerning the claim of Dr. Walter Wait for reimbursement of a lodging expense he incurred on the even- ing prior to the day he began a temporary duty assignment. The issue presented is whether the circumstances of Dr. Wait's travel are such that he may be reimbursed even though he did not perform official duty during the day on which he arrived at his temporary duty site. We hold that he is entitled to be reimbursed. Dr. Wait, an archeologist with the National Park Serv- ice in Santa Fe, New Mexico, was scheduled to be on tempo- rary duty at the Hopi Reservation in Arizona from July 26 to July 29, 1982, accompanied by 2 other employees. A Request for Travel Authorization, signed by one of the employees, indicates that all 3 planned to travel to the Hopi Reserva- tion on Monday, July 26 and planned to return on Thursday, July 29. Instead of accompanying the 2 other employees, Dr. Wait, who had been issued a Limited General Travel Authorization allowing him to travel within the Southwest Region without prior authorization, took annual leave on 02,+433

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