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B-199621 1 (1981-09-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadjsf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DECISION FILE: B-199621 THE COMP ROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 DATE: September 11, 1981 MATTER OF: Byron L. Bartholf - Unauthorized mode of travel - private aircraft DIGEST: Employee of Forest Service who traveled by privately owned airplane in lieu of common carrier as an exercise of personal preference is not entitled to reimburse- ment on a constructive cost basis. Reim- bursement was denied by agency based on regional regulation prohibiting authoriza- tion of travel by private aircraft for safety reasons. The regulation is proper under FTR para. 1-2.2d and is not arbitrary or capricious. This is in response to a request for an advance deci- sion from Mr. H. Larry Jordan, an authorized certifying of- ficer, National Finance Center, United States Department of Agriculture. The certifying officer has asked whether Mr. Byron L. Bartholf, an employee of the Forest Service, may be reimbursed for travel via a privately owned airplane. In connection with his duties as a Forest Engineer in the Lassen National Forest, Region 5, Mr. Bartholf made several trips within California, traveling in his own plane. At issue are four vouchers relating to those trips. Use of Mr. Bartholf's private airplane was post approved on three of these vouchers, but they were never released by the Forest Service to the National Finance Center for payment. The fourth voucher was the subject of a claim submitted by Mr. Bartholf to our Claims Group. Our Claims Group returned the claim to the Forest Service which in turn forwarded it to the National Finance Center. On each of the four vouchers Mr. Bartholf has claimed the constructive cost of travel by privately owned automobile since it was less than the $.24 per mile rate for the use of a privately owned aircraft. The Forest Service disallowed Mr. Bartholf's claim on the basis of a Forest Service Region 5 regulation which provides as follows: 5712-14 - Forest Service Employees Who Pilot Aircraft on Official Business. Authority for employees who are not hired as pilots to pilot / 6S6~ ,/,3,I

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