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B-213970 1 (1984-04-04)

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                         THE COMPTEOLLER GENERAL
 O   IECISION            OF THE UNITED        UTATE6
                          WASHINGTON. 0.C. 20546




 FILE: B-213970                DATE: April 4, 1984

 MATTER OF: Ronald Erickson - Meal Expenses at
              Official Duty Station

 DIGEST:
        1. National Park Service employee
            stationed at Voyageurs National Park
            incurred meal expenses while
            accompanying a tourism official of
            a foreign government on a tour
            through the park. Absent specific
            statutory authority, employee is
            not entitled to subsistence or per
            diem at official duty station
            regardless of any unusual working
            conditions.

        2. National Park Service may designate
            a subdivision of a large park that
            is not within the corporate limits
            of a city or town as an employee's
            official duty station where the
            employee's duties are generally
            focused in the subdivision rather
            than the entire park. However,
            the official duty station of a Park
            Service employee working in a park
            within a city's or town's corporate
            limits is the city or town in which
            the park is located. Federal Travel
            Regulations, FPMR 101-7 (September
            1981), para. 1-1.3c(1).


     Mr. R. Neil Thorne, an authorized certifying officer
for the National Park Service, Midwest Region (Park
Service), has asked whether Mr. Ronald Erickson, a Park
Service employee, may be reimbursed for evening meal
expenses incurred within Mr. Erickson's official duty
station area on a special assignment. We conclude that
Mr. Erickson may not be reimbursed for these expenses.

                           FACTS

     During 1983, the staff of Voyageurs National Park
conducted an intensive promotional effort to make the Park


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