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AIMD-96-93R 1 (1996-05-17)

handle is hein.gao/gaocrptadns0001 and id is 1 raw text is: United States General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 Accounting and Information Management Division B-271885 May 17, 1996 Mr. William D. Barnard Executive Director United States Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board 1100 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 910 Arlington, VA 22209 Dear Mr. Barnard: This letter responds to your February 23, 1996, request that we provide you with our views on whether your two proposed changes for processing employee travel claims conform to the requirements in Title 2, Accounting, and Title 7, Fiscal Procedures, of GAO'S Policy and Procedures Manual for Guidance of Federal Agencies. Specifically, you asked if (1) the threshold for which a traveler would have to submit receipts for expenses could be raised to amounts over $75 (currently, your procedures require the traveler to submit receipts for all items costing more than $25) and (2) the traveler could provide an aggregate amount for all expenses that individually cost $75 or less. As described in your letter, the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (NWTRB) is proposing to reengineer and streamline the procedures for processing employee temporary duty travel claims in response to the National Performance Review (NPR) initiative to simplify administrative processes and reduce federal costs.1 We support initiatives to create a government that works better and costs less. At the same time, we believe that agencies must protect the government's interest. To more fully understand your request, we contacted your staff and discussed the proposal in more detail. However, we did not test your current or proposed system. Consequently, our response only addresses your proposal conceptually. It does not address whether your present system can accommodate the proposed changes. Each of the questions you asked is discussed in the following sections. 'The Joint Financial Management Improvement Program (JFMIP), in line with the NPR initiative, established an interagency team in 1994 to address travel reengineering. The obstacles, suggested improvements, and specific recommendations for temporary duty and relocation travel are documented as guidance to agencies in JFMIP's report, Improving Travel Management Government, December 1995. GAO/AIMD-96-93R Employees' Travel Claims (NWTRB) Page 1

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