FAM No. 97-24
June 27, 1997
FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATION MEMORANDUM NO. 97 - 024 (II.G.1.)
To: Bureau Assistant Directors, Administration
Chief Executive Officer, Interior Service Center
Bureau Finance Officers
Coach Acquisition, Fiscal and Property Services
From: Focus Leader, Asset and Debt Management
Office of Financial Management
Subject: Increase in Maximum Reimbursement Allowed for
Actual Subsistence - FTR Amendment 66
Attached is a copy of pages 30279 through 30280, Federal Register,
Volume 62, No. 106, dated Tuesday, June 3, 1997, which contain Federal
Travel Regulation, 41 CFR 301-8, Amendment 66. This amendment
increases the maximum reimbursement rate that may be approved for actual
and necessary expenses of official travel within CONUS to 300 per cent
of the established locality rate. Actual maximum reimbursement rates
for non-foreign areas outside CONUS and foreign areas have also been
increased to 300 per cent by the Department of Defense and the
Department of State.
Actual expenses should be approved only when necessary and limited to
those that are reasonable and necessary to accomplish the purpose of
travel. Bureaus may require a different level of supervision to approve
actual expenses exceeding 150 per cent of the locality per diem rate.
The General Services Administration has established an effective date of
May 1, 1997, to be consistent with the date established by the
Department of State and Department of Defense.
Please direct any questions you may have on this subject to Mr. Lesley
Oden on (202) 208-6225.
William E. Webber /s/
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