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B-208988 1 (1983-03-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadkyy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION OF THE UNITEO STATES '- 4' WASHINGTON, O.C. 20548 FILE: B-208988 DATE:March 28, 1983 MATTER OF: Timothy F. McCormack DIGEST: Where employee transferred from San Francisco to Minneapolis avoided automobile travel via Route 80 on the advice of the American Auto- mobile Association he may be paid a mileage allowance for travel of an additional 513 miles distance by a more southerly but usually traveled route. He may not be paid additional mileage for a deviation from that usually traveled route. This responds to a request from James E. Allen, Chief, Fiscal Services Branch, Accounting Division, Peace Corps, for an advance decision on the claim of Timothy F. McCormack. Mr. McCormack seeks reimbursement of $47.44 which represents a mileage claim of 593 miles at $0.08 per mile previously disallowed. Given the explanation Mr. McCormack has offered for rerouting his travel, he may be paid a mileage allowance for all but 80 of the additional miles claimed. Mr. McCormack was authorized a permanent change of duty station from San Francisco to Minneapolis in March 1980. He traveled by privately owned vehicle and claimed a mileage allowance for travel of 2,533 miles on official business. The Certifying Officer allowed only 1,932 miles representing the shortest road mileage between these two cities as shown by the Rand-McNally Standard Highway Mileage Guide. Claimant explained the excess mileage by stating that upon the advice of the San Francisco office of the American Automobile Association (AAA), he took a more southerly route because of inclement weather conditions forecast for the more direct route (Interstate 80 through the Sierra and Rocky Mountains). His travel from San Francisco to Minneapolis was routed by way of Phoenix, Albuquerque, Oklahoma City and Kansas City. The Certifying Officer is of the opinion that had the claimant not made a pre- mature departure, the AAA forecast might not have been as severe. Also, the Certifying Officer suggests that the

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