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B-194108: Jan 8, 1980

HIS TRAVEL SITUATION FALLS UNDER FTR PARA. 1- 8.2C(2) AND HE MUST BE REIMBURSED UNDER ACTUAL EXPENSES RATHER THAN PER DIEM METHOD FOR NOVEMBER 26 SINCE FIRST DAY OF TRIP WAS UNDER ACTUAL EXPENSE METHOD. FACT THAT NBS' REGULATIONS MAY HAVE MISLED EMPLOYEE INTO BELIEVING RULE IN PARA. 1-8.2C(2) DID NOT APPLY WHEN FOREIGN TRAVEL IS INVOLVED IS NOT CONTROLLING SINCE NBS' REGULATIONS MUST CONFORM TO FT...

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B-194108: Jan 8, 1980

An agency official requested an advance decision concerning the appropriate method of computing an employee's subsistence expenses on the day he returned from a temporary duty assignment overseas. The agency reimbursed the employee under the actual expense mode in the Federal Travel Regulations. According to these regulations, reimbursement for the day of return shall be on an actual subsistence e...