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B-216149 1 (1984-10-30)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadlzm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: o ~ .THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OKISION OF THU UNITED STATEI 4' WASHINGTON. D.C. 2054U FILE: B-216149 DATE: October -30, 1984 MATTER OF: Cultural Property Advisory Committee - Members' Travel Expenses DIGEST: Members of the Cultural Property Advisory Committee may not be reimbursed for actual subsistence expenses exceeding the maximum amount of $75 per day, as limited by 5 U.S.C. S 5702(c). The Federal Advisory Committee Act, Public Law 92-463, incor- porated by reference in the Advisory Com- mittee's enabling legislation, provides that advisory committee members are to be paid the same travel expenses as author- ized under 5 U.S.C. S 5703 for intermit- tent employees. Under 5 U.S.C. S 5703 and the Federal Travel Regulations, intermit- tent employees serving as experts or con- sultants may not be reimbursed for actual subsistence expenses exceeding the maximum rate, absent specific statutory authoriza- tion for the payment of a higher rate. We find that no such specific statutory authority is included in the Advisory Committee's enabling legislation. This decision concerns the payment of travel expenses to members of the Cultural Property Advisory Committee (Advisory Committee), established by the Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act (Implementation Act), Pub. L. No. 97-446, Title III, S 6, 96 Stat. 2329, 2356 (1983). The issue for our deter nation is whether members of the Advisory Committee may be/reimbursed for actual subsistence expenses which exceed the maximum rate of $75 per day, as limited by 5 U.S.C. S 5702(c) (1982). We hold that the committee members may not be reimbursed for actual subsistence expenses in excess of the maximum rate expressed in section. 5702(c), absent specific statutory authorization for the payment of a higher rate. Section 306(c) bf the ImplementatiOn Act does not provide such specific authority. Mr. Woodward Kingman, Associate Director for Management of the United States Information Agency (USIA), requested our decision on this matter. Under

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