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B-191960 1 (1978-07-14)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacgts0001 and id is 1 raw text is: - - -- - . ~ - - - - - - COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, OaC 20548 191960 JUL 14 1978 h ltonorable Warren G. Magnuson airma, Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation ited States Senate ar Senator Magnuson: Further reference is made to your letter Of Ma 12 1978, th lours n ehlfof our constitue, -concerning a deral employeea 9entiti iiftatswhitavlijT apiaey med vehicle (POV). N questions the guidance given him in a memorandum titled Authorized U.S. Government Travel dated March 23, 1978, o Jerry L. Rkberg, Assistant Supervisor of Education (no agency sted). There are two points made in the memorandum. The firt that when an employee has been authorized use of POV when aveling, employees riding along with him as passengers are not titled to a mileage payment. This is a correct statement as the deral Travel Regulations (FPHR 101-7), which provide for the rein- rsement of travel expenses to employees, and which hav the force d effect of law, specifically state at paragraph 1-4.5' More than one person in conveyance. Mileage shall be payable to only one of two or more employees traveling together on the same trip and in the same conveyance, but no deduction shall be made from the mileage otherwise payable to the employee entitled thereto by reason of the fact that other passengers (whether or not Government employees) may travel with him and contribute to defraying the operating expenses. * * *11 S rationale for the above regulation is that the allowance of teage to one employee completely satisfies the Governmen 's obli- Lon to pay for the tupnsportation involved. P,-162162, August 28, 67; 32 Comp. Gen. 550F(1953), copies enclosed. The second point made in the memorandum in question is to the fect that * * * (2) individuals from the same agency, traveling

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