Evening Star Newspaper, April 20, 1932, Page 21

SHARP LTS ST ONTRAVEL LS Expenses of U. S. Employes Examined Rigidly by McCarl Office. Sharp restrictions have been thrown around the payment of Government funds to relmburse Federal workers for use of their own automobiles in public service, with the result that many claims for such travel are being disal- Jowed by Controller General McCarl. Interpreting the act of February 14, McCarl holds generally that pay- of mileage for the use of privately can be allowed only when ng their cars in “neces- way from their designated hen such travel has iined by a superior offi- o0 be cheaper than other ation, and has been duly au- d. er the act and Government travel t is also held by McCarl an offi or employe travels way from his des- 4 v or official station uthorized to use his own an actual-expense basis, d from a mileage basis. the disallowances have y from attempts of Federal employes to collect mileage for travel which McCarl has held occurred only at the designated post of duty, or head- quarters of the employe. 1931 Travel Act Cited. In a case involving several employes of the Bureau of Standards. for in- stance, the controller general disallowed claims for travel expenses from head- quarters of the Bureau of Standards to Potomac Yards, Va.; Kensington, Col- | lege Park, Beltsville, Meadows, and Camp Springs, Md. These claims were disallowed “for the reason that the travel appeared to have been substan- tially travel at headquarters.” The trips upon which the employes used their personally owned automobiles were shown upon the vouchers to cover round trips ranging from 10 to 58 miles and that the employes started from headquarters here in Washington and returned to headquarters the same day. The travel act of February 14, 1931, McCarl explained, “permits the payment of mileage for the use of privately- owned automobiles only when engaged in ‘necessary travel’ away {rom‘ @eslg- nated t of duty. When originally mxrodug(e); into Congress, the bill in- cluded a provision for mileage at offi- clal stations, but this was eliminated before its passage. It has been re- peatedly held that absences from head- quarters of 10 hours or less between the hours of 8 am, and 6 p.m. do not constitute a travel status. Where trips from headquarters are made by auto- mobile, leaving shortly before 8 a.m. and returning shortly after 6 pm., the necessity for leaving and returning be: fore such hours must be shown. “Reimbursement for the use of & pri- vately-owned automobile for transporta- tion within the limits of the employe's headquarters would be in contravention of the action or July 16, 1914, unless chargeable under an appropriation avallable for the maintenance and op- eration of passenger-carrying vehicles. Limits Well Defined. “Even when chargeable under an ap- propriation _available for the main fenance and operation of passenger- carrying vehicles, reimbursement for the privately-owned automobiles at e's of 1 headquarters is lim- i'ed to reimbursement of actual expen- | ditures, su as the cost of gasoline consumed, and in such be established by com- ce that no part of such e res were due to the use of the automobile upon private or personal business or pleasure.” Another requisite for payment for use of private-owned automobiles under McCarl's interpretation is that there must be prior authority for such & mode of travel, In the case of travel by employes in the Panama Canal Zone, M 1 allowed several vouchers, declaring none of the vouchers...were the em- ployes sbsent from headquarters for such distances or during such hours as constitute a travel status, and no show- ing of the amount actually expended for | the gasoline and ofl for the transporta- | tion on question is made.” | In a case concerning the Weather % at Houston. Tex. where disallowed for nated post of du reimbursement for use of his person- ally-owned automobile under the provi- sions of the act of February 14, 1931, “This office has repeatedly held,” sald MeCar], “that claims upon & mileage basis or otherwise incurred in pro- ceeding from point fo point within the confines of an employe's official station In his personally-owned automobfle will not be allowed regardless of the number of miles—whether within or without the city Mmits. | Travel Areas Fixed. | “These rulings have applied to travel between all points within the District of Columbia, 10 miles one way: St.| Paul and Minneapolis, Minn., a distance | of 11 miles; Omaha, Nebr., and Council { Bluffs, Towa, 4 miles; St. Louls, Mo, | and East St. Louis, I, 5 miles.” | In another decision. 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