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THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL
OECI :N ! . '1. OF THe UNITED STATES
SWASHINGTON. D.C. 20548
FILE: B-211638 DATE: July 26, 1983
MATTER OF: Tour renewal agreement travel
DIGEST:
Special air fares should be used to
compute constructive travel expenses to an
employee's residence as the maximum
entitlement to tour renewal travel to an
alternate location, provided the agency
can determine before the travel begins
that the discount fare would be practical
and economical. Applicability of special
fares should be determined on the basis of
constructive travel to the actual place of
residence, using the scheduled dates of
departure and return, even though the
travel is to an alternate location.
When an employee and his family perform tour renewal
agreement travel to a place other than their place of actual
residence, allowable travel costs may not exceed the con-
structive cost of travel to the residence. The Administra-
tor of the Panama Canal Commission asks whether a special or
discount air fare, rather than the regular coach fare,
should be used in computing that constructive cost. We hold
that the computation should be based on the lower fare if it
can be determined in advance of the travel that the employee
would qualify for such fare to and from the place of actual
residence based on the scheduled dates of departure from and
return to post.
The tour renewal travel provisions originally enacted
as Public Law 737, approved August 31, 1954, 68 Stat. 1008,
are intended to provide expenses of round-trip travel and
transportation for civilian Government employees and their
families between tours of duty overseas for the purnose of
taking leave. Matter of Hendrickz, 3-205137, May 1 , 1982.
Now codified at 5 U.S.C. § 5728, ze law states that agen-
cies, pursuant to regulations prescrited by the President,
shall pay for such travel from the employee's ,ost of duty
outside the continental United Stat-_- to -he m] c. c; his
actual residence at the time of appointment oc :ransfer to
the post of duty * * *.
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