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B-246554,B-247894 1 (1992-06-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadobv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: IV, Comptroller General or te United States Washington, DC, 20548 Decision Matter of: Federal Aviation Administration Employees - Temporary Duty Travel in Foreign Countries - Excess Lodging Cost File: 13-246554; B-247894 Date: Jvtne 9, 1,992 DIGEST Several employees, who performed official travel to different cities in foreign countries, incurred excessive lodging costs when the hotels in those cities temporarily and dramatically increased room charges to an amount well in excess of the per diem rate authorized for those cities, The employees are entitled to additional reimbursement on an actual expenses basis, but the total reimbursement may not exceed 150 percent of the maximum per diem rate stated in the Per Dierrt Supplement to the Standardized Regulations (Government Civilia-s, Foreign Areas). See 41 CF.R. § 301-8.3(a)(2) (1991). Any lodging costs incurred in excess of that amount must be borne by the employees. This decisionKts in response to two separate requests by the Director of Acounting, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Department of Transportation,1 involving the enti- tlement of several employees of the FAA to be reimbursed additional lodging expenses incurred incident to temporary duty travel to foreign countries at various times in 1991. For the following reasons, we conglude that they are entitled to additional reimbursement but in amounts not to exceed 150 percent of the maximum per diem rate applicable to the particular location. BACKGROUND The first reouest involves Mr. Glenn A. Starr, a Civilian Aviation Security Inspector for the FAA. Mr. Starr was authorized to perform official travel on an actual expense basis to several locations in the then U.S.S.R. and Belgium during the period May 21 through July 3, 1991. During the periods he was in Soviet Russia, he encountered lodging 1Mr. Don E. Hanson, AAA-300.

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