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B-197360 1 (1980-07-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadikh0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION . OF THE UN.ITED STATES WASHINGTON .C. 2 54E FILE: B-197360 DATE: Ju y 15, 1980 MATTER OF: Merwin S. Dunham leage be ween home and common carrier terminal DIGEST: Defense Department employee who moved his family 300 miles away from his permanent duty station prior to temporary duty overseas and who obtained bachelor quarters at his permanent \duty station upon return to regular duty assignment may not be reimbursed mileagp for round-trip travel between family's new residence and airport. Under FTR 1-4.2c, employee may be paid mileage for round-trip travel between the bachelor quarters--the residence from which he regularly commutes.to work--and the common carrier terminal. The issue presented is whether an employee may be reimbursed for mileage to and from the place of family domicile when returning or departing from temporary duty where the family resides /300 miles away from the employee's permanent duty station and the employee subsequently occupies bachelor quarters at the installation site. The answer is no. The correspondence requesting an advance decision was forwarded to this Office by endorsement of the Per Diem, Travel and Transportation Allowance Comittee dated January 4, 1980, and has been assigned PDTATAC Control No. 80-2. The claimant, Mr. Mlerwin S. Dunham, is a civilian employee of the Department of the Army. Mr, Dunham terminated his lease for family housing at his permanent duty station at Dugway Proving Ground on May 31, 1979, while on leave status and moved his family 300 miles away to Cannonville, Utah. The claimant remained on leave (with the exception of two hours of work on May 31, 1979) until June 5, 1979, when he proceeded from Cannonville to Salt Lake City International Airport in compliance with temporary duty orders. On July 5, 1979, claimant returned from his temporary duty station in Grafenwohr, Germany, and proceeded directly to Cannonville from the Salt Lake City International Airport. Mr. Dunham returned to work at Dugway Proving Ground on July 16, 1979, and secured a bachelor dormitory room which he has continued to maintain. In connection with his temporary duty travel to Germany as well as upon his return, Mr. Dunham claimed round-trip mileage of 5-30 miles for travel between his family's residence in Cannonville

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