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B-191110 1 (1978-09-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadgky0001 and id is 1 raw text is: jIi I a flA FILE: B-191110 MATTER OF: DIGEST: DATE: September 25, 1978 Phyllis S. Hutchins - Meals and Lodging Forest Service, on behalf of summer employees assigned to temporary duty on forest project in Maine, requested lodge owner to furnish them lodging and meals. Employees received per diem and all but one paid owner for lodginsg and meals. Forest Service may not pay owner amount of unpaid bill since it was personal debt. This decision is in response to a request dated January 10, 1978, from H. Larry Jordan, an authorited certifying officer of the Department of Agriculture (DA), for a deciton whether he may certify Lor payment a claim from Ms. Phyllis S. Hutchins. The issue is whether the Forest Service may pay Ms. Hutchins, a lodge owner, the amount of $845.34 for an unpaid ill for meals and lodging indurred by a DA employee. The record shows that James E. Moore was a GS-3 Forestry Aid with the Forest Service from May 15 through June 24, 1976, and was assigned to the Spruce Budworm Pilot Control Project in Maine. Portsmouth, New Hampshire, was desigrsatea as Mr. Moore's official station. He was authorized and paid per diem allowance at the rate of $22 per day while he performed duty at the project. The only place offering living accom- modations in the project area was the Oxbow Lodge owned by Ms. Hutchins. The entire lodge was occupied for approximately 6 to 8 weeks in the summer of 1976 by Forest Service personnel involved in the Spruce Bddworm Project. Ms. Hutc'hins states that, after 5 weeks of providing meals and lodging to the employees without being paid, she contacted the Forest Servic9 office in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, and was assured thai she would re:eive the money owed to her. Ms. Hutchins also claims that she was advised by Forest Service personnel that the summer employees' checks would be held until their food and lodging bills were paid. Mr. Moore was the only emplbyee on the Spruce Budworm Project who did not pay his bill in full. Also, the Forest Service paid Mr. Moore the amounts due him for per diem when he demanded payment instead of refusing to do so until Mr. Moore paid Mrs. Hutchin3 for his unpa:d lodging and meals. The claim presented here by Ms. Hutchins represents his unpaid balance. F'- 'V I do S S I I 7 -M 1 I 1[ %THE COMP~RLE EEA DECISIDN gF THE t'NiTEC STATES W ABHgNQTory, 0.C. 9EC315m I I

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