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B-195764 1 (1980-02-20)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadiag0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION OF THE UNITED STATES VWASHINGTON. D. C. 20549 FILE: B-195764 DATE: February 20, 1980 MATTER OF:--David -Houseworth - Relocation Expenses DIGEST: Employee of Fish and Wildlife Service who delayed travel for two days due to severe snowstorms and no travel advisories while enroute to new permanent duty station by POV, may be reimbursed per diem for those days. However, for remainder of trip employee averaged less than 350 miles minimum driving distance per day prescribed by agency. For those days his per diem is limited to number of days it would have taken him to travel between his old and new station at the minimum daily mileage rate. This action is in response to a request from Mr. John E. c O'Grady, an Authorized Certifying Officer with the Fish and -Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior, for an advance decision egarding Mr. David Houseworth's[claim for additional per diem Mr. Houseworth, a Fishery Biologist, was transferred from Bismarck, North Dakota, to East Lansing, Michigan, and began permanent change of station travel with his family by privately owned automobile on January 13, 1979. While en route, on both January 14 and January 17, he was unable to travel due to severe snowstorms. Mr. Houseworth was authorized per diem for himself and his family but the Fish and Wildlife Service denied his per diem claim for the days he did not travel. The Service based its determination on paragraph 2-2.3d(2) of the Federal Travel Regulations (FTR) which provides as follows: Maximum allowance based on total distance. Per diem allowance shall be paid on the basis of the actual time used to complete the trip, but the allowances may not exceed an amount computed on the basis of a minimum driving distance per day which is prescribed as reason- able by the authorizing official and is not less than an average of 300 miles per calendar day. As permitted by the FTR, the Fish and Wildlife Service has prescribed a minimum driving distance of 350 miles per day.

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