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B-189317 1 (1977-11-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadfif0001 and id is 1 raw text is: E3ECIBION 0 '0 C', 14) 4 0 r.,~ i t%~P- ', 15 ~ 4 FJY2i4. a's' Lfl1fltl B-189317 MATTER OF: DIGEST: Leeli.. Wilcux THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OP THE UNITED STATUE VIAUINGTON. D.C. R0545 DATE: Novamber 23, 1977 Jack 0. Padrick - Specific - Per Diem Rate for loncommercial Lodgings 1. While 55 Comp. Gen. 856 (1976) authorizes agencies t? establish specific per diem rates for general application under FTR para. 1-7.3c for employees who obtain noncommercial lodgings, as with friends or relatives, per diem rate of .$25 based in part on $9 lodgings costs determined without a consideration of the cost a host woild generally incur as a result of the employee's stay, is inappropriate In light of the considerations set forth in 55 Comp. Gen. 856 (1976) and 52 Comp. Gen. 78 (1972). 2. For travel to hh -rate geographical areas where employee lodges with friends or relatives, FTR para. 1-8. lb(1) authorizes the agendy to establish a specific per d3am rate under para. 1-7.3c insofar as the appropriate official deter- mines that such a per diem rate is justified under the particular circum- stances of the employee's travel. 3. Where a specific per diem rate is established under FTR para. 1-7. 3c for instances in which the employee stays in noncommercial lodgings, as with friends or relatives, that rate may be applied to the 'specific days on which'he in fact obtains noncommercial lod~ings and his per diem under lixe lodgings-plus system for the remainder of the period covered by the voucher would be determined without regard to those particular days. By letter dated June 10. 1977, Mr. Richard F. Noyes, an authorized certifying officer for the Department of Commerce, has requested a decision regarding payment of $25 per diem K_ q FILE: I ,_ j I

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