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B-189622 1 (1978-03-24)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadfur0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I r) 3ECIHC1ON FILE: 3-189622 MATTER OF: DIGEEST: I lii j. A THE COMPTPRCLLER OUNERAL * i.2. OF THE UNITEDr UTATBE WAS INGTON. O.C. 20540 1171tV DATE: March 24, 1978 Roscoe L. Siramons - Actual Subsistence Expenses - Meal at Airport at Permanent Duty Station NSA employee on TDY from Fort Meade authorized actual e>.penses claims cost of dinner obtained at Baltimcre-Washington intrrnaticial Airpo;rt upon return Lefure proceeding to residence at Columbia. Claim disaLlowed. Subsistence ex- penses at permanent dut) station airport are nct generalLy allowable. Election to eat dinner at airport rather than home was personal and cost was noc necessary expense of official travel within purview of 5 U.S.C. 5702(c). By memorandum dated June 29, 1977, ruference N41/0411, PD'ATAC Control No. 77-24, Mr. W, Smallets, Chief, Finance and Accounting, Central Security Service, National Security Agency, Department of Defense, requests a decision on a claim of Mr. R. -,oe L. Simmons, an employee stationed at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, for $11.10. This was the cost of a dinner meal he obLained at the Baltimore- Washington International Airport upon his retrn from temporary duty before proceeding to his residence at Columbia, Narjland. Mr. Simmons traveted to Los Angelesi, California, a high cost area, on Monday, May 9, 1977. Actual subsistence expenses were authorized for this trip pursuant to paragraph C4601, volume 2, Department of Defense Joint Travel Regulations. He returned on Friday, May 13, 1977, dtparting Los Angeles at 11:45 a.ta. Pacific time (2:45 p.r. Eastern time) on a lunch flight, and arriving at the Baltimore-Washington International Airport at 7:00 p.m. Eastern time. He then obtained the dinner meal in question at the airport after which he departed at 7:45 p.m. and arrived at his residence at Columbia at 9.OO p.m. It appears to be Mr. Simmons contention that his claim should be allowed because dinner was not served on his flight, because the time of arrival at his residence was beyond the normal dinner time, and because, had he been authorized per diem in lieu of actual sub- sistence, his entitlament would have continued through the last quarter of day of his return, the period in which the dinner was obtained. The Chief, Finance and Accounting, however, believes the claim to be doubtful in view of our decision in Matter of Bennie L. Pierce, B-185826, May 28, 1976, and raises the following questions: p L A

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