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B-195876 1 (1980-06-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadiis0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 0~,L(R ~ 4. o 7 EC ISION THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF TIME UN.ITEO STATES- WASHINGTON, 0. C. 2054a FILE: MATTER B-195876 DATE: June 16, 1980 OF: John D. Arndt - Temporary Duty Travel - Lodging Expenses DIGEST: Employee was on temporary duty assignment at Parker, Arizona, where he rented an apartment. He traveled to Las Vegas, Nevada, one weekend and to Van Nuys, California, another weekend. No official business was transacted at those loca- tions. Since allowable travel expenses are confined to those prudently incurred and essen- tial to official business, employee may not receive more than amount he would have received at temporary duty site. See FTR para. 1-1. 3b. Claim for additional weekend expense ay not be paid. This responds to a request for an advance decision by . Blanche C. Ballard, an authorized certifying officer of the s-Engineering and Research Center, Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior, Denver, Colorado. She seeks an opinion on the propriety of paying the claim of Mr. John D. Arndt, an employee of the Bureau of Reclamation who was stationed for a 90-day rotational field assignment with the Parker Field Office, Central Arizona Project. Mr. Arndt began his 90-day rotational field assignment on February 20, 1979. He rented an apartment at the temporary duty site. On the nights of March 23 and 24 (Friday and Satur- day) Mr. Arndt lodged in Las Vegas, Nevada, approximately 400 miles from his temporary duty location, and he spent Saturday night, March 31, 1979, in Van Nuys, California. Mr. Arndt had no official business in either of those two places. The question presented is whether the lodging expenses for these three nights may be included in computing his average lodging cost in Parker, Arizona, and if so, should the three nights of lodging at Parker, Arizona, be deducted before averaging? Reimbursement for official travel is governed by the standards set forth in the Federal Travel Regulations (FTR), (FPIR 101-7) (May 1973). These regulations provide that in performing official travel a Government employee is expected to exercise the same care in incurring expenses that a prudent person would exercise if traveling on personal business. FTR para. 1-1. 3a. See B-192026, October 11, 1978. The Federal Travel Regulations also provide in para. 1-1. 3b as follows: 1t2-5,9 cL~~LL~ U N / q o 3 ' - 44*

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