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B-197960 1 (1980-08-06)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadilr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: FILE: B-197960 MATTER OF: T t LILET: DATE: August 6, 1980 homas W. Rochford - Mode of local ravel for house-hunting trip Under paragraph 2-4,.2 of the Federal Travel Regulations the mode of transportation for local travel incident to a house-hunting trip, as well as for travel to and from the new station for that purpose, may be authorized or allowed. In this context, the term allowed, like the term approved, connotes administrative action after the fact and employee whose travel orders for house-hunting trip did not specify any mode of local transportation may be reimbursed for car rental expenses based on subsequent approval of that mode by an authorized official. We have been asked to determine whether orders _ _ authorizing ahouse-hu.jting trip may be modified retroactively to provide for reimbursement for rental car expenses for local travel. Under the regulations we find that the rental car expenses may be reimbursed on the basis of subsequent administrative approval without regard to whether the circumstances meet the conditions for retroactive modification of orders. The reclaim voucher submitted by Thomas W. Rochford, an employee of the General Services Adminis- tration (GSA), is for expenses incurred in connection with his transfer from New York to San Francisco, California, in July 1979. The travel order issued to Mr. Rochford authorized a round trip to seek resi- dence quarters, with travel to and from San Francisco to be performed by air. Mr. Rochford's claim for the expense of a commercially rented automobile for local travel while house hunting in San Francisco was denied because the travel order did not specifically authorize expenses for local transportation under paragraph 2-4.2 of the Federal Travel Regulations (FPMR 101-7) as amended and extended by FPMR Temporary Regulation A-ll, Supplements 4 and 7. THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION . OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D. C. 20548

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