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B-190810 1 (1978-07-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadgep0001 and id is 1 raw text is: I 7o5 DECISION FILE: B-190810 MATTER OF: DIGEST: >sOcl/ 4 THE CoMPTROLLi! GENERAL 4.& OF THEa UNITED STATEU WASHINGTON. D C. 2054 DATE: July 18, 197E Thomas Hawk - Travel expenses incurred by wife of employee for visit Employee of Department of Justice on temporary duty assignment in San Francisco, California, may not be reimbursed for cost of round-trip air transportation from Portland, Oregon, incurred by his wife for the purpose of a family visit even though employee was authotized travel expenses for himself for purpise of a family visit to Portland. Travel was for personal reasons, and there is no authority under ap- plicable statutes and regulations authorizing reimbursement for personal travel for family of employee. Mr. Charles R. Neill, Acting Director, Financial Management Staff, Office of Management and Finance, Department of Justice, by Letter dated Nv'ember 25, 1977, requested an advance decision as to the propriety of paying a travel voucher in favor of Thomas Hawk, a Special Assistant United States Attotney, detailed to the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Northern District of California. The record shows that Mr. Hawk, whose duty station was Portland, Oregon, was on temporary duty assignment in San Francisco, California, to provide temporary assistance to the United States Attorney in Sac Francisco, during the period of February 7, 1977, to March 20, 1977. In conjunction with this detail, hr. Hawk was authorized travel expenses for two intzrvening weekend round trips ro his home in Portland. Mr. Hawk vas issued Lwo Covernment Transportation Requests (GTR) ct a cost of $138 e3ch for this purpose. He made one such return trip on March 4, 1977. The second CTR was used by the employee's wife to travel to San Francisco to visit on February 12, 1977. She returned to Portland on February 21, 1977, the date Mr. Hawk traveled to Portland for business purposes. The claim in question is for the cost of Mrs. Hawk's round-trip air trans- portation between San Francisco and Portland to visit her spouse's temporary di'ty station. Paragraph 1-1.3 of the Federal Travel Reulations (FPMR 101-7 May 1973) provides that traveling expenses which will be reimbursed are confined to dose expenses essenti-1 to the transacting of official business. While the employee may have been authorized K

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