[Question Concerning Entitlement to Mileage Allowance]
Highlights
A decision was requested as to: (1) whether an Army employee was entitled to a mileage allowance for the use of his privately owned vehicle (POV) on official business between his residence and an alternative duty point where travel by his POV was found to be advantageous to the government; and (2) the location of the employee's permanent duty station. GAO: (1) has held that agencies have the discretion to limit the mileage allowance paid for travel between an employee's residence and a temporary duty site when the use of a POV is approved as advantageous to the government; and (2) found that the employee's alternative duty point was a temporary duty site. Accordingly, the employee was entitled to his claim for mileage for such travel.