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B-195658 1 (1980-03-19)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadicf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 0ECIONrl /3171' THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATEB S WASH INGTON, 0.C . 20548 FILE: B-195658 MATTER OF: DIGEST DATE:March 19, 1980 Barbara J. Protts - Per Diem 1. Young Adult Conservation Corps enrollees in Alaska were properly denied per diem allowance under competent orders providing that no per diem will be authorized where subsistence is furnished by the Government. Fact that camp did not have laundry or shower facilities does not entitleenrollees to per diem which is intended as reimbursement for additional costs rather than inconvenience resulting from temporary duty assignment. 2. Orders issued in accordance with agency regulations providing that no per diem will be authorized when subsistence is furnished at Government expense may not be modified retro- actively based on recommendation of specific per diem rate of $8 per day where authority to establish specific per diem rate is discretionary rather than mandatory. This decision concerns the per diem entitlement of Barbara J. Protts and eight other enrollees of the Young Ad onservation Corps (YACC), Forest Service, Department of Agriculture. During the summer of 1978 the nine enrollees were assigned to Region 10 of the Forest Service which administers public .lands with National Forest status within the State of Alaska. Their claims cover the period they were assigned to the Susitna River Basin Camps under Travel Authorization No. 10.01.00128 issued March 2, 1978. The travel authorization applicable to all Region 10 YACC enrollees directed to travel within Alaska provides for a per diem allowance as follows: The average cost of lodging plus 50 per cent (50%) of the maximum per diem rate established for the locale, not to exceed the maximum Q Ll A2, /~< i-f lv

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