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B-131810 1 (1978-01-03)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadfms0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER UENERAL CECIBION THE UNITeO STATrE WASHINoTON. D. C. 20548 FIL E: B- 131 MATTER O1: 810 DATE: Jmnuary 3, 19T8 Department of Agriculture Meat Graders - Mileage 1. Department of Agricalture asks whether its meat graders must bo paid mileage for travel during compensable hours of work under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), 29 U.S. C. S 201, et seq. Section 5704 of title 5, United SFAten Code, is the authority for granting em- ployees mixeage and the FLSA does not so provide. Moreover, the fac* that an employee is on official business does not in itself, absent his agency's authoriza- tion, entitle him to mileage. However, 7:. since the agency has discretion to allow mileage, the Department of Agriculture may in the future allow its meat graders mileage when they visit one duty site a day, but payments of mileage for past travel are governed by the policies of the Department then in effect which deny mileage for such travel. 2. GAO is unaware of any authority in the law to allow payments to employees for storage of Government equipment which they transport between their homes and worksites. Therefore, storage payments may not be allowed. The Honoable Carol Tucker Foreman, Assistant Secretary for Food and Consumer Services, Department of Agriculture, has requested our decision concerning the Department of Agri- culture's autiority to make mileage payments to meat graders cr the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS). Mr. Kenneth T. Blaylock, Natioral President, American Federation of Govern- ment Employees, has written us regarding the Assistant Secre- tary's request and we have considered the points i aised in his letter in rendering our decision. -t 0 1~ DIGEST: I 4. K --7-i

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