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B-235495 1 (1989-08-23)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadnoe0001 and id is 1 raw text is: The Comptroller General of the United States Wshington, D.C. 20548 Decision Drug Enforcement Administration Employees - Use of Maulerof- Foreign Air Carriers to Avoid Terrorist Threats File: B-235495 Date: August 23, 1989 DIGEST Where the Drug Enforcement Administration follows its proposed procedure in granting authority to employees, threatened by terrorists acts, to travel on foreign flag air carriers to avoid the threats, the Comptroller General will not question the agency's determinations that the use of a foreign carrier is necessary to protect the employees' safety. In these circumstances use of the foreign carrier is considered a necessity as provided under the guidelines implementing the Fly America Act. DECISION The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) asks whether the agency may approve travel abroad by its employees on foreign flag air carriers in lieu of U.S. flag air carriers in certain circumstances to avoid terrorist threats.l/ We conclude that DEA may do so under its proposed procedures, and this Office will not disallow expenditures for such travel on foreign flag carriers. BACKGROUND The DEA, based on concern for the safety of its employees traveling abroad, asks whether the agency may approve travel on foreign flag carriers to or through certain areas abroad which have *high profiles* of risks of terrorist attack, without violating the so-called Fly America Act, 49 U.S.C. App. S 1517 (1982), which generally requires the use of U.S. flag carriers for government-financed transportation when such carriers are available. DEA states that its employees spend a large amount of time traveling on business that I/ The matter was presented to us by the Assistant Administrator for Operational Support, DEA. 1 4)q (. r

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