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B-214902 1 (1984-12-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmbr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 0%,LLR THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL DECISION *OP THE UNITEO STATES WASHINGTON. 0. C. 20548 UNIT. FILE: B-214902 DATE: December 17, 1984 MATTER OF: Gerald K. Kandel DIGEST: Even though an employee's travel order authorized the maximum daily subsistence rate for actual expenses at two high-rate geographical area rest stop locations in the United States at the beginning and end of international travel, the Federal Travel Regulations only permit the employee to be reimbursed a lower per diem rate when these locations are intermediate stopover points at which no official duty is performed. Since there is no indication of unusual circumstances at the rest stop points that would justify the approval of actual expenses, the employee may be reimbursed only the per diem rate. 4 The question in this case is whether an employee may be reimbursed the maximum daily subsistence rate for actual expenses as authorized in his travel order at two rest stop locations in the United States at the beginning and end of international air travel, or whether he is entitled only to the lower per diem rate at these two rest stop locations.1/ Although the rest stop locations were at high-rate geographical areas in which the maximum daily subsistence rate of $75 per day was otherwise appropriate, the Federal Travel Regula- tions require the lower per diem rate of $50 per day to be used when the high-rate geographical area is an en route or intermediate stopover point in the travel at which no official duty is performed, such as occurred in this case. Therefore, since there is no indication of unusual circumstances at the rest stop points that would justify the approval of the maximum daily subsistence rate of $75 for actual expenses, the employee may be reimbursed only the $50 per diem rate. 1/ The Chief, Financial Operations Division, Office of the Comptroller, United States Information Agency, submitted this as a request for an advance decision. O0 A -300\9

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