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B-228781 1 (1988-04-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadnbk0001 and id is 1 raw text is: The Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 Decision Matterof: Dr. Timothy L. Crawford - Airplane Mileage - Transfer of Permanent Station File: B-228781 Date: April 14, 1988 DIGEST Travel orders authorized an employee to be paid mileage for the use a privately owned airplane for travel to the employee's new duty station incident to his transfer. A determination was made that use of the airplane would be advantageous to the government. The airplane was needed at the new duty station to conduct experiments and for temporary duty travel. Because travel regulations gave the employing agency discretion to authorize the mileage and the employee used the airplane for the transfer, mileage should be reimbursed to the employee. DECISION We decide that Dr. Timothy L. Crawford, an employee of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, United States Department of Commerce, is entitled to mileage for traveling to his new permanent duty station in his privately owned airplane.l/ Doctor Crawford transferred from Muscle Shoals, Alabama, to Idaho Falls, Idaho, in August 1986. His travel orders authorized mileage for a privately owned aircraft at 45 cents per mile and a privately owned automobile at 19 cents per mile. The travel orders stated that both methods of transportation were determined to be more advantageous to the government than common carrier or other means of travel. By memorandum of May 15, 1987, Dr. Crawford's supervisor stated that the aircraft was justified as advantageous to the government because Dr. Crawford would be using it for temporary duty travel away from his new duty station, as well as to conduct 1/ Mr. Clayton J. Terry, Authorize Certifying Officer, Chief, Finance Division, Western Administrative Support Center, Department of Commerce, requested our decision. C)4 B17

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