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B-212362 1 (1984-06-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadltr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: TH 1COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION OF THE UNITI STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 FILE: B-212362 DATE: June 28, 1984 MATTER OF: Marqaret J. Janes - Traininq Expenses - Thesis Preparation Costs DIGEST: Defense Logistics Aaency civilian employee requests reimbursement for full cost of typino and copvina a thesis orepared in association with a lonq-term training proqram. Agency has broad discretion to Day all or part of the expenses of training, including all or part of thesis preparation costs. In employee's travel orders agency limited reimbursement to $200, and stated that it was aqency policy to so limit reimbursement unless orders specified differently. Based on the record before us, we-will not overrule the agency's denial of reimbursement for these expenses. owever, it is clear that the agency has authority to pay these expenses and we would have no objection if the aqency chooses to do so. This action responds to a reauest for an advanced decision on a claim submitted by Margaret J. Janes, a Defense Logistics Agency civilian employee, for the full cost of preparation of a thesis incurred incident to lono-term trainina. The request for advance decision was submitted by R. G. Bordley, Chief, Accounting and Finance Division, Office of the Comptroller, Defense Loaistics Agency, Alexandria, Virqinia. In view of the agency's discretion to pay all or part of the costs of training, and the agency's decision here not to pay the entire cost of thesis preparation, we find no basis to allow this claim. FACTS Margaret J. Janes, a civilian employee of the Defense Logistics Agency, was sent on long-term training to participate in the Alfred P. Sloan Fellows Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from June 19, 1981, to May 31, 1982. Submission of a thesis was one of

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