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B-212512 1 (1984-03-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadlox0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER UENmEAL O OECISION OP THE UNITEO STATES WASHINGTON. O.C. 20548 UNITL FILE: B-212512 DATE: March 16, 1984 MATTER OF: Veterans Administration - Transportation of Medical Students DIGEST: The prohibition on home-to-work transportation in section 1344(a)(2) of title 31 of the United States Code and in section 406 of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Appropriations Acts for fiscal years 1983 and 1984 does not apply to the Veterans Adminis- tration's proposal to have its employee keep a Government passenger bus home at night to facilitate transporting Jefferson Medical College students between Philadelphia and the VA Medical Center in Coatesville, Pa., in furtherance of a training program authorized by law. The arrangement involves use of a Government vehicle for an official purpose. Any benefit the driver receives from keeping the passenger bus home and driving it to work is incidental to that purpose. The Veterans Administration (VA) asks whether one of its employees may keep a passenger bus home at night to facilitate transportation of Jefferson Medical College students from Philadelphia to the VA Medical Center in Coatesville, Pa., located approximately 35 miles from the College. For the reasons given below, we find that the described arrangement is proper and would not conflict with the rule prohibiting home-to-work transportation of Govern- ment employees as set forth either in 31 U.S.C. S 1344(a) or in the annual Department of Housing and Urban Development- Independent Agencies Appropriation Act. The VA informs us that at one time there was a siqnifi- cant problem transporting students between the Medical College and VA Medical Center. This problem was solved by acquiring a large passenger bus which currently is parked at the Medical Center. Each day a VA employee-driver makes two round trips to Philadelphia to transport students first to the VA facility and then back to the College. The VA suggests that it would be more economical to allow an employee-driver who lives in Philadelphia to make one round trip each day. Thus, the employee would pick up the stu- dents at the Medical College on the way to work and drive them to the VA facility. He would then return the students

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