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B-226722 1 (1987-09-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmuw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: The Comptroller General of the United States waington, D.C. 20548 Decision Billy J. Spencer - Reimbursement of Travel Matterof: Expenses for Medical Treatment in Alaska File: B-226722 Date: September 1, 1967 DIGEST Under 4 C.F.R. Part 22, the National Weather Service and the National Weather Service Employees Organization ask whether an employee stationed in Barrow, Alaska, could be reimbursed under 15 U.S.C. S 1514(a) for expenses incurred in traveling to Anchorage, Alaska, to have a growth in his throat removed since there were no facilities to perform the operation in Barrow. Since, in the opinion of the physicians in Barrow and Anchorage, the employee needed immediate attention for the rapidly enlarging growth in his throat and since this condition could not have been foreseen or anticipated, we conclude that a proper basis exists for payment of these travel expenses. DECISION ISSUE This action is in response to a joint request from the agency and a union for a decision concerning the proper interpretation and application of 15 U.S.C. S 1514(a), which authorizes the Department of C6rerce to-provide free emergency medical services to employees at remote duty stations in Alaska. Specifically, the question concerns the propriety of paying travel expenses when an employee obtained medical care away from his remote duty station for the removal of an enlarging growth in his throat. Since the employee needed immediate attention for a condition which could not have been foreseen or anticipated, we conclude that a proper basis exists for payment of the travel expenses. BACKGROUND This decision is in response to a joint request from Burton D. Goldenberg, Chief, Operations Division, National Weather Service, Alaska Region, Department of Commerce and

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