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B-205055 1 (1982-06-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadkla0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AtAf4 / IECIION I FILE: B-205055 THJ CUIPTFOLLR4 ONURAL OF TNHM UNITWC S3TATES VASH I NGTON, P. O, P00548 DATE; June 25, 1982 MATTER OF General Services Administration - Deviation from usually traveled route ,IGEBT: Two employees of the General Services Adminiatra- tion travel.ed to Washington, D.C., from Peking, China, via Paris, France, rather than via Tokyo, Japan, the twually traveled route. The employees had received erroneous advice that the travel through Paris would be at no extra cost, and the Administrator of General Services authori'=ed the routing based on that understanding. The Government may not pay 896.90 per traveler for extra costs incurred for the indirect rout- ings. The Federal Travel Regulations require a finding of official necessity for traveling via an indirect route, and there was no basis, other than personal reasons, for the travel through Paris. Allie B. Latimer, General Counsel, General Services Administration (GSA), has requested okir decision as to whether the Government should bear the cost of that portion of two employees' official business trip which was subsequently found to have been completed by other than the usually traveled route. Since the employees traveled by an indirect route, and the cont of the indirect travel was in excess of the constructive cost of direct travel, we hold that the two employees are responsible for the additionalitravel costs. FACTS Ms. Latimer states that in December 1980, two GSA employees traveled to Peking, China, to participate in a meeting with the Chinese Co-Chairman of the Bilateral Agreement on Science and Technology. The travel authori- zation, approved by a former Administrator of General Services, called for the employees to travel from Washington, D.C., to Peking, China, via Tokyo, Japan. The return trip was routed through Shaghai, China, and Paris, France. Tokyo and Paris wre rest stops. The travel orders contained the following language; Rest Stop auithorized, location may be at the divwretion of the traveler, howevor, no transnortation costs over P -

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