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B-193740 1 (1979-08-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadhlw0001 and id is 1 raw text is: IL; FILE: B-193740 DATE: August 6, 1979 MATTER OF: Robert C. Burden -[emporary Duty Travel &71 Lodging Expenses The fact that an employee on a temporary duty assignment stays in a motel which is 74 miles from the temporary duty station, and only 25 miles from his home, does not necessarily indicate imprudent conduct by the employee. Each case must be considered on its own facts. Here, since there is no showing of any-increased cost to the Government and no indication that the distance impeded the employee in the performance of his assignment, the employee should be reimbursed for his lodging expenses. We have been asked to decide whether there is a maximum distance or range of distances from a temporary duty station within which an employee must obtain lodgings. In the case presented, we hold that the cost of the employee's lodging expenses may be allowed and we decline to prescribe any general rules regarding the distance between a temporary duty station and an employee's place of lodging as the Air Force requested. By letter of November 8, 1978, the Chief, Accounting and Finance Branch, Headquarters Ogden Air Logistics Center, Hill Air Force Base, Utah, requested an advance decision on the reimbursement of lodging expenses of an employee on a temporary duty.assignment. The matter was forwarded to us through the Per Diem, Travel and Transportation Allowance Committee and was assigned PDTATAC Control Number 78-47. By travel authorization dated June 21, 1978, Mr. Robert C. Burden and 21 other employees were authorized to perform repeated temporary duty travel from Hill Air Force Base to the Hill Air Force Base Test Range at Lakeside, Utah, to test fire weapons systems. For the period of time in question, Government quarters were not available at the temporary duty site. According to the submission, when on this temporary duty employees generally obtain lodging in Grantsville, Utah, which is 50 miles from the Lakeside test range. Mr. Burden, for three of the four nights involved, stayed in a motel in Salt Lake City, which was 74 miles from the Lakeside test range and 25 miles from his permanent duty station and home. The Air Force argues that Mr. Burden has not complied with the spirit of paragraph C4464 of wL. THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION . OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 DIGEST: 4

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