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B-217629 1 (1986-05-13)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmib0001 and id is 1 raw text is: THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OECISION op THE UNITEO STATUE WASHINGTON. 0. C. 20548 FILE: B-217629 DATE: May 13, 1986 MATTER OF: Theodore H. Clark, Jr. - Reimbursement for Meals - Temporary Duty Site Near Family Domicile DIGEST: Employee, who was on authorized travel to a high rate geographical area, claims reim- bursement of expenses for breakfast and lunch meals incurred while on temporary duty near his family domicile in Pennsylvania. He rents a room at his official duty station in Baltimore, Maryland, and commutes to such station when his presence there is required. Since Baltimore was his permanent duty station, and he was in a travel status while staying at his family domicile, he may be reim- bursed the actual cost of meals, in accord- ance with paragraph C4611-1g, Volume 2, of the Joint Travel Regulations. This decision is in response to a request by Mr. William J. Nicholson, Finance and Accounting Officer, Baltimore District, Corps of Engineers, Department of the Army, for an advance decision. Mr. Theodore H. Clark, Jr., an employee of the agency, has asked for our ruling on the agency's disallowance of expenses he incurred for several breakfasts and lunches while he was performing official duty at a temporary duty site near his place of family domicile. We hold that the employee is entitled to reim- bursement of the claimed meal expenses since he was in a travel status while staying at his family domicile away from his permanent duty station. THE FACTS Mr. Clark is employed by the Corps of Engineers in Baltimore, Maryland, his official duty station. He is a member of a drill rig field crew in which 85 to 95 percent of his duties are performed away from his official post of

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