[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 161 (Tuesday, August 22, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Page 39786]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-17677]
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GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
[Notice-MA-2017-05; Docket No. 2017-0002; Sequence 15]
Maximum Per Diem Reimbursement Rates for the Continental United
States (CONUS)
AGENCY: Office of Government-wide Policy (OGP), General Services
Administration (GSA).
ACTION: Notice of GSA Per Diem Bulletin FTR 18-01, Fiscal Year (FY)
2018 CONUS per diem reimbursement rates.
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SUMMARY: GSA's Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 per diem reimbursement rates
review has resulted in lodging and meal allowance changes for certain
locations within CONUS to provide for reimbursement of Federal
employees' subsistence expenses while on official travel.
DATES: Applicability: This notice applies to travel performed on or
after October 1, 2017, through September 30, 2018.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For clarification of content, contact
Ms. Jill Denning, Office of Government-wide Policy, Office of Asset and
Transportation Management, at 202-208-7642, or by email at
[email protected]. Please cite Notice of GSA Per Diem Bulletin FTR
18-01.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: The CONUS per diem reimbursement rates prescribed in
Bulletin 18-01 may be found at www.gsa.gov/perdiem. GSA bases the
maximum lodging allowance rates on the average daily rate that the
lodging industry reports to an independent organization. If a maximum
lodging allowance rate and/or a meals and incidental expenses (M&IE)
per diem reimbursement rate is insufficient to meet necessary expenses
in any given location, Federal executive agencies can request that GSA
review that location. Please review numbers six and seven of GSA's per
diem Frequently Asked Questions, at www.gsa.gov/perdiemfaqs, for more
information on the special review process. In addition, the Federal
Travel Regulation (FTR) allows for actual expense reimbursement as
provided in Sec. Sec. 301-11.300 through 301-11.306. For FY 2018, no
new non-standard area locations were added. The standard CONUS lodging
allowance rate will increase from $91 to $93. The M&IE reimbursement
rate tiers were not revised for FY 2018.
GSA issues and publishes the CONUS per diem rates, formerly
published in Appendix A to 41 CFR Chapter 301, solely on the Internet
at www.gsa.gov/perdiem. GSA also now solely publishes the M&IE meal
breakdown table, which is used when employees are required to deduct
meals from their M&IE reimbursement pursuant to FTR Sec. 301-11.18, at
www.gsa.gov/mie.
This process, implemented at 68 FR 22314, on April 28, 2003, for
per diem reimbursement rates, and in 2015 for the M&IE breakdown table,
ensures more timely changes in per diem reimbursement rates established
by GSA for Federal employees on official travel within CONUS. Notices
published periodically in the Federal Register, such as this one, now
constitute the only notification of revisions in CONUS per diem
reimbursement rates to agencies other than the changes posted on the
GSA Web site.
Dated: August 14, 2017.
Allison Fahrenkopf Brigati,
Associate Administrator, Office of Government-wide Policy, General
Services Administration.
[FR Doc. 2017-17677 Filed 8-21-17; 8:45 am]
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