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B-211404 1 (1984-04-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadlqn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: r3TH COMPTROLLER DENERAL OECIBION - OlP TH E UNITEG STATES 9. WASHINGTON. O.C. 20548 FILE: B-211404 DATE: April 17, 1984 MATTER OF: Department of Interior--Purchase of Physical Exercise Eqtipment OIGEGT:1. Purchase of physical exercise equipment to be used in mandatory physical conditioning program by Bureau of Reclamation firefighters is approved. Equipment is not for recreational or personal use. Equipment is principally for benefit of Government and could not reason- ably be supplied by firefighters themselves. 2. Employee who paid for equipment pending deter- mination of whether purchase was authorized can be reimbursed since agency would have been authorized to pay for the equipment and was willing to do so, and the Government used and retained the equipment. This decision is in response toia request for an advance decision from an authorized certifying officer of the- Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation (Bureau), as to whether a voucher submitted by Mr. Arthur L. Isherwood,ka Bureau employee, may be certified for payment. Mr. Isherwood, an administrative officer at the Bureau's Grand Coulee Project, issued Government purchase orders for the procurement of exercise equipment for use by Bureau firefighters as part of a physical fitness program. He used $512.06 of his personal funds to pay the invoices for the equipment because doubts were raised by the certifying officer regarding the propriety of the procurement at Government expense. Mr. Isherwood is seeking reimbursement of his personal funds.- We agree that the exercise equipment was neither an impermis- sible employee recreation expense nor an impermissible personal expense in view of the evidence supporting the Bureau's determination that the equipment was a necessary expense of Bureau operations, principally benefitting the Government. We therefore conclude that the voucher may be certified for payment. The exercise equipment in question wascpurchased for use in a mandatory physical fitness program for firefighters at the Grand Coulee Project in the State of Washington. The program is made necessary by the high levels of strength and endurance which firefighters must maintain to fulfill their duties. The submission describes the program in detail, and includes the following information:

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