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B-211295 1 (1984-03-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadlpj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 9fl~2~ THE COMPTROLLER 01ENEINAL OKClION . OP THE UNITED STATES WA SHINGTON, 0. C. 20543 FILE: B-211295 DATE: March 26, 1984 MATTER OF: F. Leroy Walser - Relocation Benefits Following Intergovernmental Personnel Act Assignment DIGEST: 1. After completing his Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) assignment in Fullerton, California, an employee and his family moved to Provo, Utah. Their subsequent return travel to Washington, D.C., began in Provo and was routed through Yucaipa, California, for the employee's per- sonal convenience. Agency properly reduced employee's mileage claim to distance between Fullerton and Washington, D.C., since 5 U.S.C. S 3375, authorizing travel and trans- portation expenses in connection with IPA assignments, limits reimbursement for return travel performed by an employee and his family to the con- structive cost of travel between the assignment location and the employee's permanent duty station. Employee may, however, be allowed additional mileage to avoid inclement weather. 2. Employee returned to permanent duty station following an IPA assignment and was authorized temporary quarters subsistence expenses for himself and his family. He reclaims amount of meal expenses disallowed by his agency as unreasonable under the Federal Travel Regulations because claimed costs exceeded average costs in valid statistical reference. Employing agency has initial responsibility to determine reasonableness of temporary quarters claimed. Where agency has exercised that responsibility, GAO will not substitute its judgement for that of the agency in the absence of evidence that the agency's determina- tion was clearly erroneous, arbitrary, or capricious.

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