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B-218988 1 (1986-03-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmfm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OEClUION . .op THE UNiTUO 8TATES WAS INGTON 0. C. 20548 FILE: B-218988 DATE: March 12, 1986 MATTER OF: Harvey P. Wiley - Temporary Quarters Subsistence Expenses - Reasonableness of Meal Expenses DIGEST: A transferred employee reclaims amount of disallowed meal expenses incurred while occupying temporary quarters. The agency relied on its internal guideline stating that meal costs up to 45 percent of the daily maximum will be considered reasonable without further explanation. The employing agency has the initial responsibility to determine the reasonableness of expenditures for expenses claimed by employees while occupying temporary quarters. Where the agency has exercised that responsibility, GAO will not substitute its judgment for that of the agency unless the agency's determination is clearly erroneous, arbitrary, or capricious. Here, agency's determination is sustained in the absence of adequate justification by the employee for additional meal costs. This decision results from the submission by the Chief, Accounting Branch, Public Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), of the reclaim voucher of Harvey P. Wiley, an employee of the Food and Drug Administration, for an additional amount for meal expenses incurred while occupying temporary quarters. The amount claimed was deducted from his original voucher on the basis that his meal expenses were unreasonably high. Under the analysis which follows we uphold the determination of the Public Health Service. Mr. Wiley was transferred from Peoria, Illinois, to Jefferson, Arkansas, on July 28, 1984, and he and his family were authorized temporary quarters subsistence expenses. When Mr. Wiley sought reimbursement of his expenses, the agency disallowed $927.65 of his claimed ~i

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