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B-188702 1 (1978-05-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadgai0001 and id is 1 raw text is: . - -. . THE COMPTROLLER OUNERAL DECI5JON Iy.T , .P OF THU UNITED STATES s> . WASHINGTON. 0.C. 054m FILE: B-188702 DATE: MAV 18 V8 MATTER OF: Henry J. Schroder - Funeral Travel DIGEST: U.S. Customs employee in Houston was autho- rized travel day on Monday to attend training in Bethesda, Maryland, but departed on prior Saturday for his own convenience. Employee was notified of death of family member on Monday. Employee .mqy be reimbursed for travel to point of abandonment of official duty. Return travel was personal travel and at expense of employee. Employee shoul be charged annual leave after abandonment of duty. See cited decisions. By a letter dated March 25, 1977, Richard F. Byrd, n authorized certifyina officer with the U.S. Customs Service, Deoartment of the Treasury, requests an advance decision regardina the funeral travel and leave entitlement of Mr. Henry J. Schroder, an employee of the Customs Service in Houston, Texas. The record shuws that Mr. Schroder was scheduled to attend a couirse in Written Cormnications for Auditors in Bethesda, Maryland, a suburb of Washinoton, D.C., from Auaust 10-13, 1976. Monday, Auoust 9, 1976, was an authorized travel day. For his own convenience Mr. Scnroder denarted Houston on Saturday, Audiast 7, 1976, leaving his home at 6:30 a.m. On Vonday, Aunust 9 Mr. Schroder was notified at his hotel in Bethesda of a death .in his immediace family and was authorized emergency leave from Auaust 10-13, 1976, to attend the funeral. Mr. Schroder exchange' the return portion of his airline ticket from Washington co Houston wlich was originally purchased with a Government Travel Reques:. (GTR) for a ticket from Washington D.C., to Quincy, IllinoiE, to Houston, Texas. Mr. Schroder paid the additional cost from personal funds. In light of the above facts the certifying officer asks the following questions: 0(1) Is the Government obligated to pay all or part of the round trip ticket, purchased with a GTR from Houston to Eethesda and return?, and I I

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