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B-219121 1 (1986-08-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmkl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 4.,THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OECI9ION (OF THE UNITED STATES 9.. IWASHINGTON, 0. C. 20548 FILE: 13-219121 DATE: August 4, 1986 MATTER OF: Kelly G. Nobles - Travel by Privately-Owned Vehicle - Expenses for Traveltime Charged to Annual Leave DIGEST: An employee who elected to travel by privately-owned vehicle rather than common carrier and was charged annual leave for his excess traveltime claims subsistence expenses for that travel- time. The employee's claim may not be allowed, since we have held and the Federal Travel Regulations provide that subsistence expenses may not be paid during traveltime charged to annual leave. In view of the prohibition against paying subsistence expenses during a period of annual leave, it is not material that the employee's actual costs of travel, including the claimed subsistence expenses, were less than the contructive cost of travel by common carrier. Mr. E. M. Keeling, Director of Accounting of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), has requested our decision concerning Mr. Kelly G. Nobles' claim for subsist- ence expenses associated with his use of a privately-owned vehicle (POV) rather than common carrier for temporary duty travel. Specifically, the FAA questions whether Mr. Nobles is entitled to receive subsistence expenses for traveltime which exceeded that which would have been required for common-carrier travel and has been charged to annual leave. For the reasons stated below, we hold that Mr. Nobles may not be paid subsistence expenses for his excess traveltime charged to annual leave. BACKGROUND Mr. Nobles, an FAA employee stationed in Terre Haute, Indiana, was scheduled to attend a training course at the FAA Academy in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, during the period

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