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Sb V r.COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES
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. B-168661 4flovember 15,.1973
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The Honorable
The Secretary of the Air Force
Dear Hr. Secretary:
Further reference Ma made to a letter dated Juin 1, 1973, from
the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, N anpmoer end Reserve
Affairs, requesting a deciuion as to whemther the principle enun-
ciated In 49 Cop. can. 540 (B-168661) (1970), concornina the $.yrent
of otation allowanceaj is for application in the cane of remote and
isolated Alaskan sites vhero the rovercent of dependnts, autow.obilea,
and hou'aehold sooda have beon authorized concurrently with the
wove.ent of the on.ber.
The request has boon forarded by the Per Diem, Travel and
Transportntion Allo;ance Co:matteoe and anoigued PDTATAC Contro]l
No. 73-29.
It- hiu letter the Ansistant Secretary sayn that the r-irbera
involved are aaisntned to remote and isolated duty posta to which
depandeuts are not percittod to accort:pany the r-orbcr nJ at whici.
dependent support facilitioo are virtoally nonexistaent, Ti depen-
denta hnve b.on authorized to travel in a mtilitnry dependent ntatus
to another location in Alanka at which houain, schoo1s, medical
support, eta., are available. J!or.bersare said to travel froLa iso-
lated duty stations for periodic visits to the location to whlich
depondanta ha o bean authorized to travel.
Since the -.wmberla duty station and the renidence of his
dependants both are in Alasa, the viw in oxpresool that the basic
requirovwntn, ,f paragraph 1.14300-1 of the Joint Travel Regulations
(tember with Depondento) were satisfied. Under paragraph 114300-3 of
the regulationu, .pendents are considered as residing in the vicinity
of a oo l)orlu ds ty station for any period (luring which they actually
reside in the country within whicl ito merber's pernanent duty etaton
is located.
The Asaistant Secretnry anys further that since our above-cited
decision relates to dependents who were authorized to travel to a
.place outside Ut'e Uqitod States not in the viciuity of the netter's
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