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B-201812 1 (1981-06-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadjlb0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 0THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OECISION .( P. OF THE UNITED STATES 0 ~ .WASHINGTON, 0.C. 20548 VINITED S FILE: B-201812 -U DAT June 9, 1981 MATTER OF: Robert L. Bidus - Temporary Quarters- Authorization or Approval DIGEST: In the absence of administrative authorization or approval of the use of temporary quarters an employee may not be reimbursed temporary quarters subsistence expenses. An advance decision has been requested by Isaac J. Duran, an authorized certifying officer of the Water and Power Re- sources Service, Department of the Interior, concerning the reclaim voucher in the amount of $423.14 of Mr. Robert L. Bidus for subsistence expenses his spouse incurred while occupying temporary quarters incident to his transfer from Boulder, Colorado, to Mills, Wyoming, in January, 1980. The administrative report clearly shows that temporary quarters were not authorized in connection with Mr. Bidus' transfer in January, 1980, nor have such expenses been approved by agency administrative action after the fact. Under the provisions of section 5724a(a)(3), and 5724(a) of title 5, United States Code, and implementing regulations in Paragraph 2-5.1, et seq., of the Federal Travel Regulations (FTR) (FPMR 101-7, May 1973), an employee and his immediate family may be reimbursed for the expenses of occupying tem- porary quarters in connection with an official transfer to a new duty station. In accordance with this authority, authorization for temporary quarters subsistence expenses is discretionary with the agency. Accordingly, Mr. Bidus' claim is denied under the long- standing principle of law applied in numerous decisions of this Office that in the absence of administrative authoriza- tion or approval of the use of temporary quarters an employee may not be reimbursed temporary quarters subsistence expenses. B-167930, November 19, 1969; B-162741, March 21, 1968; and B-161860, September 5, 1967. We also note on the attached reclaim voucher that Mr. Bidus has claimed reimbursement for the movement of household goods to his new duty station based upon the con- structive weight of the goods. See FTR para. 2-8.2b(4) (May 1973). L~-~R

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