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FILE: B-196904 ]>,/ DATE: December 12, 1980
MATTER OF: Vincent Calderon - Additional Per Diem Verf
for Lodging CostsubGovernment QuartersA Available
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Civilian employee of Department of Army
performing temporary duty assignments at
several military installations is not en-
titled to the quarters portion of per diem
allowance authorized by/5 U.S.C. § 5702(a)
(1976), where adequate Government quarters
were available but not used. It is assumed
that adequate Government quarters were available,
in absence of a statement by .commanding officer
responsible for Government quarters at temporary
duty post that utilization of such quarters was
impracticable.
The issue we are requested to decide is whether
an employee on temporary duty travel can be authorized
additional per diem for lodging costs when Government
quarters were available but not used. This decision
is in response to a request for an advance decision
by Mr. Pasquale Orlando, Finance and Accounting
Officer, Department of the Army, submitted here
by the Per Diem, Travel and Transportation Allowance
Committee, and assigned PDTATAC Control No. 79-37.
Mr. Vincent Calderon, a civilian employee of the
Department of the Army, has submitted a reclaim
travel voucher seeking reimbursement of lodging
costs which he incurred on January 20, 21, and 22,
and February 10, 11, and 12, 1978, in Temple, Texas,
while on temporary duty travel as a supervisor of
a field calibration team. The claim may not be allowed.
The facts briefly stated are as follows: By
Travel Order No. CTO-12-217, dated December 15,
1977, Mr. Calderon, an Electronic Technician, whose
official station was in Pueblo, Colorado, was authorized
to perform temporary duty consisting of calibration
activities from his residence in Pueblo, Colorado,
to several military installations in Texas, Oklahoma,
Kansas, Colorado, and return. The travel order
stated that receipts were required for all lodging,
that all temporary duty personnel were to occupy
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