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B-211692 1 (1983-06-09)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadldl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: OE: B116N FILE: B-211602 THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITEO STATES WASH'-INQTON. D.C. 20548 DATE: June 9, 1983 MATTER OF: Eugene S. Sheskin DIGEST: The return travel expenses of an employee who abandoned a temporary duty assignment for personal reasons may not be paid since it was administratively determined that he did not substantially complete the assign- ment. The assignment was to evaluate a 2-week training course and the employee returned home at the end of the first week. Since the administrative determination was not shown to be improper or unjustifiable it will not be disturbed. Mr. Eugene S. Sheskin, an employee of the United States Customs Service, Department of the Treasury, appeals the denial by our Claims Group of his claim for travel expenses. We conclude that the claim may not be paid based on the present record. Mr. Sheskin claims reimbursement for travel ex- penses, in the amount of $168.19, which he incurred in returning to Washington, D.C., his regular duty sta- tion, from Glynco, Georgia, where he had been assigned to perform a 2-week temporary duty assignment. He was authorized to travel to Glynco on July 19, 1982, to attend and evaluate a training course for the purpose of determining whether it was suitable for regulatory auditors in the Customs Service's regional offices. Mr. Sheskin states that his wife became ill shortly before he left for Glynco, and that on Friday morning, July 23, at the end of the first week of the temporary duty assignment, he felt the necessity to return home to determine the state of his wife's health because she had advised him that she was exhausted. He says he discussed the course format and materials with the instructors, who indicated to him that the materials he had obtained con- tained a substantial portion of the materials that would be covered during the second week of the course. He says that-after an a~ttempt to contact his supervisor concern- ing his situation by telephone and receiving a busy sig- nal, he returned to his regular duty station on Friday aNd contacted his supervisor on Sunday, July 25.

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