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B-200650 1 (1981-08-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadjqi0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 7 THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OECISION .oF THE UNITEO STATES o WASHINGTON, 0..C. 20542 /N ITLV FILE: B-200650 DATE: August 12, 1981 MATTER OF: J.D. MacWilliams - Meals at Headquarters Incident to Attendance at Meeting DIGEST: Employee of Forest Service who attended several working lunches and dinners as a member of a General Management Review Team at his official duty station may not be reimbursed for these meals even though the team leader felt it was necessary to have all team members present to carry on the business at hand since in the absence of specific statutory authority allowing reimbursement, the Government may not pay for meals of civilian employees at their headquarters. This action is in response to a request for an advance decision by H. Larry Jordan, Authorized Certifying Of- ficer, National Finance Center, Department of Agriculture, as to the allowability for payment of the cost of expenses incurred for meals by Mr. J. D. MacWilliams, an employee of the Forest Service, at several working lunches and dinners held at the employee's official duty station. The facts and circumstances, briefly stated, are as follows. Mr. MacWilliams was a member of a General Manage- ment Review Team working on the Klamath National Forest. The team had several working lunches and dinners wherein the findings of the day were discussed, and the team leader felt it was necessary to have all team members present to carry on the business at hand. The working meals were held at Yreka, California, the employee's official duty station. We are not aware of any authorizing legislation or appropriation act which would allow meals to be furnished at Government expense to the employee under the facts as reported. The certifying officer points out that in our decision Gerald Goldberg, B-198471, May 1, 1980, we held that meals could be furnished at Government expense under somewhat similar circumstances. That case, however, in- volved meals furnished to employees who were attending the annual meeting of the ?resident's Committee on Em- ployment of the Handicapped, where the employees were not free to partake of their meals elsewhere without being absent from essential formal discussions, lectures

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