Reimbursement for Travel in Privately Owned Automobile

A decision was requested as to whether an employee may be reimbursed mileage for local travel in his privately owned vehicle in connection with overtime assignments. The employee should be reimbursed for mileage in accordance with agency travel policies in effect at the time travel was performed. The agency's regulations required employees to travel to overtime assignments at their own expense except when the services were required to be reimbursed by a party-in-interest. The record does not indicate whether the mileage claims were reimbursable by a party-in-interest.