REVIEW OF TRAVEL AUTHORITIES AND ENTITLEMENTS

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• Publication Date: June 12, 1967
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Personnel
THROUGH : Executive Officer, Office of Personnel
SUBJECT Review of Travel Authorities and Entitlements
STATINTL
1. and I held our working session to review the legal
bases for travel authorities and entitlements that occasion either your
review or action in individual cases. I avoided confining our discussions
to existing regulatory provisions in order that I could ascertain the need
for appropriate recommendations at a later date covering policy or pro-
cedural changes.
2. Attached is a draft of the questions and replies handled in our
first meeting. In our next meeting on 13 June, we will go over the attach-
ment for correction and modification as required. We plan to continue this
precedure on a weekly basis until all issues are resolved, at which point
I will arrange for the paper's formal submission to you by the General
Counsel. It can then be kept up to date as a basic reference paper in
resolving future cases. STATINTL
3. On 14 June, I have a. meeting with a travel expert in the
STATINTL to discuss some of the administrative arrangements STATINTL
and experiences in handling some o the pro ems of principal concern to
our office.
Deputy Chief, Plans and Review Staff
Office of Personnel
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Overseas Tours
Question: Can the Agency prescribe under its own authority any minimum
or maximum overseas tours it desires for designated posts and pay travel and
transportation expenses upon satisfaction of the prescribed periods?
Answer: Yes. :We did not discuss the correlative question of entitle-
ment to home leave on the expiration of a prescribed tour. In an earlier
meeting, we did raise the issue momentarily and plan to deal with it more
specifically in a subsequent meeting
Return Travel From Overseas
Question: Is the Agency required to return a U.S. citizen employee,
his dependents and effects if he resigns or retires overseas prior to the
time of the prescribed tour and incur the necessary expenses therefor?
Answer: Yes.
Question: If he serves the prescribed period but refuses to return
within the time stipulated by Agency officials?
Answer: No. Legally we can prescribe whatever period is desired.
Question: If the return short of tour is not primarily for the conven-
ience of the Government?
Answer: Yes.
Question: If the principal reason for the return is involuntary separa-
tion not for cause?
Answer: Yes.
Question: If the principal reason for the return is for involuntary
separation for cause or misconduct or for resignation in lieu of separation?
Answer: Yes.
Question: If the Government is legally required to return an employee
even though he breaches his tour or is returned for personal reasons or cause,
is the Agency required to proceed legally against the employee to collect the
costs, including (a) attachment of final monies due the employee and (b) out-
side legal action?
Answer: If, pursuant to the above comments, the cost of return travel
and transportation to the U.S. is furnished upon request to a U.S. citizen
employee resigning overseas and the Agency determines that the circumstances
of his employment preceding the resignation were a breach of tour, were un-
satisfactory or were for personal reasons not for the convenience of the
Government, the Agency is required to attach any final salary and other
monies due the employee up to the amount of the indebtedness owed the U.S.
Government. If necessary in obtaining full satisfaction of the amount due
the Government, the Agency is obliged in the absence of preclusive security
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or cover considerations to instigate action in final settlement of the debt
by turning over the problem to the Department of Justice. [The comments in
this paragraph concern only the legal obligation of the Agency to return a
U.S. citizen employee if requested upon resignation or termination abroad
irrespective of the fault of the employee and the corresponding responsi-
bility of the Agency to recover the costs incurred in providing such travel
expenses. It in no way is concerned with an employee's entitlements to
receive travel benefits. Agency officials can, of course, refuse a request
by an overseas employee to be reassigned or returned home prior to his
prescribed tour or time of reassignment as determined by the Agency. An
employee's refusal to comply would constitute a breach of tour and perhaps
other disciplinary or adverse action as well -7
Question: Are return travel and transportation expenses short of tour
for separation, reassignment or retirement payable at Government expense as
long as Government convenience is involved, even though the Agency's interest
in the employee's return is a result of personal reasons (e.g. if the Agency
wants to return an employee for personal or family behavior that makes his
further stay untenable even though he may wish to remain, is the individual's
action the primary cause and is the return primarily for the Government's
convenience)?
Answer: In general, the Agency may pay travel and transportation
expenses to an employee returned short of tour for reassignment, separation
or retirement when for the convenience of the Government. As long as it is
in the Government's convenience to return him, the Agency may authorize
return travel of an employee for cause whether it is also at his convenience.
However, it can be asserted that an employee legally forfeits his travel
rights when his return is required for cause even though the convenience of
the Government is thereby served. Accordingly, the Agency has authority to
deny travel and transportation expenses (or recover expenses advanced upon
demand to a U.S. citizen resigning overseas) if it wishes in individual
cases upon making an official finding of a return short of tour for cause.
Question: Is the regulatory authorization of travel and transportation
upon separation, retirement or resignation overseas to "place of residence
at time of appointment" based upon an obligatory legal requirement or could
the Agency provide for return travel to some other point, such as "desig-
nated place of residence in U.S." in the Foreign Service or "place of actual
residence at time of assignment or transfer" in the Department of the Army
and Navy?
Answer: The applicable statutory authorities distinguish between the
payment of travel expenses for an employee and his dependents versus the
payment of transportation costs for household and related effects. The
Agency can legally pay travel expenses of the employee and family upon
retirement or resignation abroad to any designated place including outside
CONUS. [The Department of State has construed its statutory authority,
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The Agency's legal authority to pay the cost of transporting effects is
more limited. If the employee retires abroad, the Agency could legally pay
such costs to any designated point inside or outside CONUS. If the employee
resigns abroad, the Agency may pay such costs only to "place of residence at
time of appointment." Although the place of an employee's appointment is
in Washington, D. C., the "place of residence at the time of appointment"
may well be the place from which the individual came just prior to appoint-
ment. The legal meaning of the phrase "place of residence at time of appoint-
ment" will be decided later. It should be noted that the Agency authorities
enumerated in this paragraph are based upon the statutory provision that
the Agency "shall" pay travel and transportation expenses pursuant to such
regulations as the Director may prescribe. Thus, the Director could circum-
scribe the applicability of the statute by explicit provisions which would
limit the conferment of travel rights, e.g., by defining place of residence
as the United States only -7
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ORIGIN CF RECD PROPOSALS
Camaittee on Administrative Authorities
Casaittee Proposal
Pay travel and transportation costs of CIAR retirees,
regardless of duty station to place in U. 8.,
territories or possessions.
Provide hoe leave normal1.y after 24 months but
between 18-36 months, whether initial or sub-
seluent tour.
Provide up to 12 cents per ails for use of POY
on official business in Washington area.
Permit approval by Operating Official of per
diem for family at DY stops up to 30 days
while en route to or from PCS overseas.
Limit travel and transportation costs of employee
retiring abroad to place designated by employee
in U. S., territories or possessions.
Llmiit hoe leave for personnel assigned in U. S.
after overseas tour to 15 workdays.
Pay allowable travel and transportation costs of
employee resigning abroad to permanent place
of residence in U. S. (Define permmnent place
of residence in regulations. )
Establish procedure for prescribing overseas tours
other than 24 months when necessary.
9. Clarify home leave points.
10. Eliainate duplicative eligibility criteria for
Mae leave travel and hose leave time.
U. Establish criteria and procedures for determining
eligibility for how leave and Game Service
Transfer Allowance.
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lawwwco md other 'rite bONWItA prov to = epl ayees are ais
frv- able as Okose proVids* in GZU*lft l or in a h+ -after W WW
for other GVwW=wnt MVIqMW in AftUW cietw:ees.
b. XwwUVe requested to reviev apPrOW'iste cbangcs,
%b" Ambmild- be adopted or atratj've POli*7 Asa e.g.,
d. In COUSOnwee with &Aidell=* the , the Co littee requested
ftlroctws of Sup 't 843Y1ts to aoee SAW a mi ?t live authorities
O.nd COC, to eat review.
e. 1 appointed a Ca nittee, asi at rgre> tives of 0?, 0L, t'
in other amiss be sffo*e4, either
ority of AgewW lxs_ - ee or aaes othar lar.
*6 fte ttee bas VreMvA * Papwt at Its findings and reemnndations
ti each of these proposals a *Ww squawbiww'O arisin from its review
of pertinent external loan aiad a_3 11 s. A nwdw of official. in the
5106 8erv'ic es vw* invited to eir vies of ll1y to the Cu *ittoe
various toffs at conma to lbw or on 'Web they are particv1cr
IMOV ed tulle.
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SU M M & R T OF D RBC ATIONS
Committee on Adsiastrative Authorities
Change Present
Employee Benefits
Clarify or Improve
Administration of Rho s Benefits
1.travel benefit to CUR
1. paw travel of r+es es abroad to
retirees .
e of residence
a. Auti?ize travel and trans-
U.
portation expenses regardless of
a.Auorize travel and trarnspor-
duty station (U. S. or abroad).
tation expenses to employee's
b. Authorize travel to a place
officially recorded permanent
in U. S., territories or posses-
place of residence" in U. S., its
sions designated by employee at
territories or possessions, or
time of retirement.
other approved place in U. 8.
provided reimbursable costs do not
2. Grant home leave between 18-36
exceed constructive costs of travel
r6n
to permanent place of residence.
a. Pam sate regulatory require-
b. Define permanent place of
meat of 24 months service for
residence in regulations to nor-
home leave an initial tours.
mally mean actual residence of
b. Establish as Agency policy
record prior t': transfer overseas.
that home leave will normally
permit employee to select other
be after 24 months unless official
place as permanent place of resi-
action is taken to stipulate some
dence for approval if actual
other period between 18-36 months
residence was temporary or he has
at a specified post.
taken concrete action to establish
c i,. Restrict any periA uunde~r 18
months to a~ s uaatir eh d
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a new place of residence. Define
a of evidence au i such
ccr r IL
a ize"
actually j0o
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security if cover hors ieive not
taken.
2. Esta a overseas ours
d. Requests for horns leave other
than 24 quired
m when re .
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than 24 months could apply to a
y74 months as sacs
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post or to a specific individual
policy unless other period is
or group of employees at a post.
officially specified for a post
e. Requests could also include
for all employees or a group of
an individual's return short of
employees.
his originally prescribed tours
b. include procedures in resgu3a-
waith home leave.
tion for designating tours other
f. Requests should be originated
than 24 months based upon insti-
by Operating Official and approved
gation of request by Operating
b D Pers.
Official and a by D/Pers.
GIB
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Dployee Benefits
Clarify or lqpran
Adytinistration of Employee Benefits
2.
g. Requests for home leave
ve points.
e home le
3.
for a period other than 24
a
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a. ov ce place or places
months could be for any official
of return travel for home leave
reason--cover, operational,,
would Include permanent place of
administrative, compassionate,
residence; Hqs; and residences of
health, hazard, et.al.
children, parents, parents-
in-laws, brothers and sisters, and
3.
Provide 12 cents mile We rate
brothers-and sisters-in-laws.
WhshEiFoh area.
Permit employee to request in
Change regulations in order to
writing other points for approval.,
authorize rates not to exceed
such as future permanent place of
12 cents per mile with corre-
residence.
sponding increases in flat
b. Consider desirability of
rates for certain Metfopolitan
areas . /; ! / o , G cY e~,~ )
specifying and approving home
' leave points in Overseas Agree-
sent, signed by employees before
4.
Authorize family per diem TDY
transfer overseas.
stops a route to PC
c. Restrict redesignations to
30 days t b rating- cial
changes that fall within criteria
Pe y Director concern
to delegate authority, if he ILL
GIB
wishes, to Operating Official,
4.
Chief of Station or Base to
approve family per diem for TDY
stops en route to or from over. 25
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seas PCS point up to 30 days,
as basis for
for any justifiable reason (cover,
home leave time and home leave
health, administrative errational,
travels 'when it is contemplated
etc.)
that the employee will return to
I L
EG I B service outside the U. S. idi-
5 .
Limit travel o retirees abroad
ately after home leave or upon
to U. S.
completion of an assignment in
paytravel and transportation
the U. S." Delete present stand..
expenses to a place in the U. S.,
and for home leave travel: "when
territories or possessions
ILL
there is a reasonable expectation
GIB
designated employee at time
~Y
that the emp1
oyee will return to
an assignment outside the U. 8,"
6.
Confine home- leave to 15 days
ILLEGIB
5. Establish criteria and procedures
TS; personne assigned in
or MeTermining eligibility for
U. S.
Change regulation in order to limit
home leave of an employee returning
from overseas for a U. S. assign..
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meat to 15 workdaiys. Permit
ics~s when additional
rest needed due to difficult
oversees service; O"Mal delta
experienced in granting how
leave because employee's
retentions overseas was required;
or serious personal or family
problems necessitate more than
15 days.
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OfiWify or Improve
of Employee Benefits
a. time of FRQ or an soon as
possible, a certification f
ackacvleedgiag:
(1) be must cc wplete his pre-.
scribed orerseas tour.
(2) he is willing to return over
seas after completion of an assign-
meat i& U. S.
(3) 8qm. amt certify that his
return overseas after his U. S.
assignment is contea fated.
(4) be will be liable for refund
if he quits within six months of
return to U. S.
b. Employee mtsat also acknow-
1* 090 on form that above certi.
fications are required for
receipt of HISTA.
c. weer Service should certify
on form; that emplcgrse's return
overseas after U. S. assignment
is contemplated. When making
such determinations Career Service
should not approve home leave or
MM if the eesployee probably will
not be returned because of one or
more of the following:
(1) his qualifications, work per..
fvxmanee, or intended utilization;
{2) state of health;
((3 return to U. S. was for cause
or circumstances making his return
improbable;
(4) he will be age 59 by time of
return to U. S. and there are no
positive plate for another over.
seas assignment;
(5) future staffing needs of
~r Service.
d. Certification form should be
returned to field for processing
as employee's home leave, when
eligible, and copy held in Hqs. for
processing HSTA claim, if any.
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Pey travel benefit to CZAR retirees
a. Responds to guidance of
Executive Director-Ca troller
to make sure benefits of Agency
employees are as favorable as
pr'ovided in other laws for
employees in similar circumstances.
b. Foreign Service retirees
have proposed benefit.
c. CZAR retire** are those most
nearly in "aim lar circumst ."
d. Application of benefit
should be a tangible aid in
administration of CZAR system.
Grant home leave be? en 1$- 6
months.
handling individual returns short
of originally prescribed tour,
when necessary.
f. Should obviate such of the
present misunderstanding and
problems encountered in adminis-
tration of home leave,
e. Should curtail problem in
other than 2 months service period
upon hoe leave requester involving
c. Would establish a generally
understood procedure for acting
reasons; thus providing flexibility
from 24 months requiram ant for
home leave on initial tour of
duty$
b. Would permit home leave to
be taken when officially
necessary, for various official
a. Would avoid problems arising
b. Would eliminate preferential
treatment of those resigning
abroad, versus resignees in U. S.
a. Would avoid erm:~nt of
personnel to process away from
His., by eliminating preferred
travel benefit to resignees abroad.
4. Would lessen present con-
fusion as to where an overseas
rasignee may have his $8$ shipped,
under section 4 FL 110 (problem
recently surfaced again by Audit
start).
24 months when required.
a. Would provide common under-
standing that Agency policy on
Overseas tours (initial and sub-
sequent) will be 24 months at a
post unless otherwise stipulated,
as a basis for determining return
travel rights, advance return of
dependents, etc. (Currently, no
clear-cut statement on what policy
is, e.g., 24 months are necessary
for home leave on initial tours,
but no set period is required for
home leave on subsequent tour;
travel expenses to and from over-
seas are payable if employee
agrees to 1-3 years as prescribed
in advance, etc.
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a. 12 cents permitted by
b. 32 cents a mile is authorised
by Agency outside Washington ar+aa,
where costs may be less per mile,
e . g. , sustained highway travel.
c. Costs have gone up since 1961
when Agency decided upon the
standard of 10 cents per mile.
a. Would facilitate action Vith
out administrative burden of
referral to Deputy Director
level.
b. Decisions properly could be
made by same approving level
making other travel decisions.
c. Have precedent for proposal
in AID regulations.
Limit travel of retirees abroad to
U. S.
a. Would limit current prefer
tial right of those retiring
abroad (travel to place where
they will reside).
b. Would conform travel rights
of retirees abroad to proposed
benefit for CZAR retirees, i.e.,
travel to a place in U. S.
c. Would actually affect few
people (e.g., one CIAR retiree
in CY 1967 out of 68).
d. In future cases, payment of
travel only to U. S. could avoid
potential security problems or
greater cost in providing travel
an-where in world.
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of nployee Benefits
2. b. Would provide a uniform
procedure to be followed in
establishing a tour policy other
than 24 months, based upon official
need.
a. Would provide clearly under-
stood criteria and procedure for
designating hoeme leave points.
b. Would restrict redesignations
to appropriate changes in original
-tions, e.g., charge of
address of parents.
o. Would curtail paper work and
improve understanding of allowable
home leave points.
Zlimi.nato du dative standards for
1i * e leeve travel and bWO leave
Lime.
Would avoid possible confusion
arising from application of the
regulatory standards of eligibility
for home leave travel and he
a. Stand iced. Begs. (Gov't.
Civilians,, For. Areas) requires
joint Agency-eeagaloyee certifica-
overseas in order to receive HSTA.
tion that employee will return
b. directed definition and
application of limitations as
basis for granting S M.
C. Since home leave legally con-
tingent upon employee's return
overseas., criteria for asking such
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to requirement ci' State D*W
b. Was previously recce by
Personnel Advisory Board.
d. The considerations leading
to establishment of Volley in
State are applicable to Age=
e.g., economy, eaployee utiliza-
tion, and lesser need for extended
hc*ne leave if eeiployee is stays
in U. so
e. determinations applicable to
both bcoe, leave and. EM.
d. Need uniform procedure for
tauekiag such determinations.
e. Career Services best
qualified to make determinations,
of Agency's intent to return an
employee averteaaa (not personnel
is station processing PC$ Travel
Ordetrs) .
f. To meet legal requirement
for determining eligibility of
employee for haze leave or 1TTA,
need criteria for determining
when employee's impending
retiresesnt, health, suitability,
etc. would preclude his return
oversees or would cause the
Carew Service not to coutem-
platC a his return overseas.
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tine frame that euomne is
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credit UWIW CSR period of
fe a1, servim r
not cam;
retire t but 1atw
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it to be credited evm if no
t am* (as in ease of Cac).
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Allomoe far an a is
l in the U. S. Prior to
his schaftled 4e more for an
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Office of Logistics (con't)
Authorize the pent of an annual
uniform allowance to Agency crafts.
men and related employees.
Adopt authority in PL 90-236 90th
Congress authorizing nontemporary
storage of HIS of members of
uniformed services in missing
status.
Office of Ccm?unimuons
Authorize shipment of for two
or more points in U. S.
Mipsrent of HUE and POV upon
resignation from overseas to
place in U. S. where employee
will reside.
Office of A_ ix
Review per diem rates in rsaote
areas, e.g.,
Al. - Noz*nilitsry ikitorms, r
has been limited to ehau tears, the
Director of Logistics could approve
other uniforms without additional
Authority or regulatory change.
New legislation, not applicable to
civilian ambers of DUD, is outside
the scope of Committee's charter.
Cc aittee investigations disclosed that
the Agency permits this under the awe
rules ss State, i.e., reimbursable cost
limited to constructed cost of shipment
between the travel points specified in
the Travel Order.
Of an overseas resignee be paid to
his permanent place of residence, (as
defined in our proposal).
that travel and transportation expenses s
The Ci mrittee does not believe such
shipments should be limited, to Hqs.
or place of residence at time of
appointment, as the regulations now
provide. We are r nend,ing, however.
I aat9 m rates are proscribed by loD
or Secretary of State. Agency could
not by adoptive action prescribe
higher rates and should rely on remedy
nov ava-~ilabls-?the actual subsistence
expense method.
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Office of Secu i (con't)
the possibility of
authorizing actual w4woses in
those cases when employee required
to be in Tit' status for a consider-
able period (domestic or foreign).
Review policy on economy travel
relative to long trips resulting
in loss of work efficiency due
to excessive fatigue.
Consider payment of a differential
for irregular overtime to certain
classes of personnel such an
FBI0 Secret Service and Treasury.
Consider the identification of cer-
tain positions as being within the
category of hazardous duty and
therefore entitled to receive
additional remuneration.
Office of Personnel
Grant civilian allowances to
military details.
Establish am R%ployee Services
Center (patterned along lines
of one in Dept. of State).
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Reasons
ua ions permit use of actual saw
sistence method. If madam allocable
mfiw this method inadequate, we believe
enxe should be considered through
ct anar d channels.
u3a'# ons allow approval of first-
elue air travel when necessary for
sanitation, health, comfort, well-
being, at. al.
Although there is no. regulation on
subject, this can be done. Committee
informally discussed with OP and
suggested to OS it present its
pwticular problem to OP for review.
Since Agency regulation now being
prepared on subject, in response to
recently revised CSC rules and
regulations, the Cmamittee took no
action. We apprised. 06 of the
situation.
Offices of concern already have authorit
delegated to them to establish Center
if desired. No new regulatory change
or policy approval appears necessary*
RF4-RDP81-00314R000600240035-7
 Approved F#lease 2001 /09/SMIDP81-00300600240035-7
Proposals
Office of Personnel (con't)
Provide assistance to *nploysee in
filing claims against ciai
companies for di ge to or loss of
(limit a r to State ate, DOD).
Establish quality Control and
inspection activity regarding
cozamercial shipments end
storage of goods (similar to
State and DOD).
Increase Agency's invention sward
to same level provided by Army,
Navy and Air Force-450 dis.
closure fees a $100 award for
Single patent and $100 for each
additional patent granted on
same invention.
Approved For Release 2001/09/1!3
Di
Mion can be aceomplished by a X1l
ISnceat to xulations. Understand
this will be considered by 0P and the
Agency's Patent Board. No Committee
action was dewed necessary.
-RDP81-00314R000600240035-7