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B-213341 1 (1983-12-27)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadlmi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: OECISION PILE: B-213341 THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OP THE UNITEO 6TATES WASHINGTON, O.C. 20548 DATE: December 27, 1983 MATTER OF: Clarence E. Berg DIGEST: Where Department of Defense employee lodged without charge in Government quarters at remote duty site in Alaska, because other lodgings were unavailable, his per diem was properly reduced under regulation requiring 50 percent reduction in locality per diem rate where employee lodges free of charge in Gov- ernment quarters. The fact that the accommo- dations may not have met the Department's own standards of adequacy does not change their character as Government quarters or warrant payment at an unreduced rate of per diem to compensate for hardship that may have been occasioned by his occupancy of the particular quarters. This action is in response to a request for reconsid- eration of a recent settlement by our Claims Group that denied Clarence E. Berg's claim for additional expenses incident to performing temporary duty at certain remote locations in Alaska. We conclude that the claim was properly denied. Mr. Berg's claim relates to 172 days he spent on temporary duty during fiscal years 1980-1982 as a civilian employee of the Department of the Air Force. He contends that $6,106 was improperly deducted from his per diem for his use of Government quarters in the course of his temporary duty assignments. Although he was exempt from the requirement otherwise imposed upon Department of De- fense employees by paragraph C1055-1 of Volume 2 of the Joint Travel Regulations (2 JTR) to use Government quar- ters when adequate Government quarters are available, he had no alternative on those occasions. Because of the remote location of the temporary duty sites alterna- tive lodgings were unavailable. Since Mr. Berg used Government-contracted quarters at no charge, his per diem was reduced in accordance with 2 JTR paragraph C4552-3d. That paragraph provides that when Government quarters are available without charge to the traveler the prescribed ) -1 I Az ,'

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