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THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL
DECISION OP THE UNITED STATES
4 WASHINGTON, 0.C. 20548
FILE: B-212614 DATE: February 22, 1984
MATTER OF: Daisy Levine, et al.
DIGEST:
1. Where orders assign newly appointed sea-
sonal employees to a duty station where
they are fed and lodged and all their
duties are to be performed at that sta-
tion, they cannot be viewed as itinerant
employees for travel per diem purposes.
2. Where newly appointed employees report to
an administrative headquarters merely for
personnel processing and perform all
duties at an assigned duty station in the
field, the reporting station cannot be
considered their duty station for travel
per diem purposes even though the agency
designates it as such on the employees'
orders. There is no authority to pay per
diem to the employees from the time they
departed the reporting station.
An authorized certifying officer of the Department of
the Interior requests a decision on the question of whether
travel vouchers submitted by four temporary employees may be
certified for payment, and whether amounts already paid on
similar claims should be collected.1 The employees were
recruited by the Southwest Cultural Resources Center,
Division of Cultural Research, Albuquerque, New Mexico, to
perform seasonal work as members of an archeological survey
crew in the general vicinity of Chaco Cultural National
Historic Park, New Mexico, referred to also as Chaco
Canyon. The certifying officer suspended payment on the
recent claims because of doubt as to whether Albuquerque,
the station designated by the employing agency, or Chaco
Canyon, should be the official duty station for determining
entitlement to travel allowances.
IJohn P. Duran, authorized certifying officer, South-
west Region, National Park Service, Sante Fe, New Mexico,
also forwarded comments from the Chief, Division of Cultural
Research, the employing agency [which vigorously defend the
agency's determination to authorize per diem for these
employees]. The vouchers forwarded by Mr. Duran are
returned but they may not be certified for payment.
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