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[Federal Register: December 27, 1994]


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Part VI





General Services Administration





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41 CFR Parts 301-4 and 302-2




Federal Travel Regulation; Privately Owned Vehicle Mileage 
Reimbursement; Report to Congress on the Costs of Operating Privately 
Owned Vehicles; Final Rule and Notice
GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

41 CFR Parts 301-4 and 302-2

[FTR Amendment 42]

RIN 3090-AF64

 
Federal Travel Regulation; Privately Owned Vehicle Mileage 
Reimbursement

AGENCY: Federal Supply Service, GSA.

ACTION: Final rule.

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SUMMARY: This final rule amends the Federal Travel Regulation (FTR) to 
implement provisions of the Treasury, Postal Service, and General 
Government Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 1995 (Pub. L. 103-329, 
September 30, 1994). The Act eliminates the fixed statutory ceilings on 
mileage reimbursement rates for advantageous use of a privately owned 
vehicle (POV) on official business travel, and allows the Administrator 
of General Services to establish the rates based on cost 
investigations. This amendment is intended to provide equitable 
reimbursement to a Federal employee for advantageous use of a POV on 
official business travel by increasing the mileage reimbursement rates 
to reflect current costs per mile of operating a POV; and by increasing 
the mileage reimbursement rates for use of a POV in lieu of a 
Government-furnished vehicle (GFV) to reflect current costs to an 
agency of operating a GFV.

DATES: This final rule is effective January 1, 1995, and applies to 
travel performed on or after January 1, 1995.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert A. Clauson, General Services 
Administration, Transportation Management Division (FBX), Washington, 
DC 20406, telephone 703-305-5745.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This final rule amends the Federal Travel 
Regulation (FTR) to establish increased mileage reimbursement rates for 
use of a privately owned vehicle (POV) while performing official 
business travel.
    Mileage reimbursement rates for advantageous use of a POV have been 
constrained by statute at 25 cents per mile for a privately owned 
automobile (established in June 1991), 45 cents per mile for a 
privately owned airplane (established in October 1980), and 20 cents 
per mile for a privately owned motorcycle (established in October 1980) 
even though cost studies have indicated that higher reimbursement rates 
were necessary to adequately reimburse the cost of operating a POV.
    Section 634 of the Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government 
Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 1995 (Pub. L. 103-329, September 30, 
1994) eliminated the fixed statutory caps and allows the Administrator 
of General Services to establish mileage reimbursement rates based on 
cost investigations which the General Services Administration (GSA) is 
required under 5 U.S.C. 5707(b)(1) to periodically conduct and report 
to Congress. Under the new law, the mileage reimbursement rate for 
advantageous use of a privately owned automobile may not exceed the 
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) business standard mileage rate in any 
year the IRS establishes such a single rate.
    GSA has reported the results of its November 1994 cost 
investigation to Congress and indicated that the governing regulation 
would be revised to increase the mileage allowance for advantageous use 
of a privately owned automobile from 25 cents per mile to 30 cents per 
mile, for use of a privately owned airplane from 45 cents per mile to 
88.5 cents per mile, and for use of a privately owned motorcycle from 
20 cents per mile to 24.5 cents per mile. Additionally, based on 
updated data reflecting current costs to an agency of operating a GFV, 
GSA has increased the two-tiered reimbursement rates for use of a POV 
instead of a GFV from 18 cents to 23.5 cents per mile and from 9.5 
cents to 10.5 cents per mile.
    GSA has determined that this rule is not a significant regulatory 
action for the purposes of Executive Order 12866 of September 30, 1993. 
This final rule is not required to be published in the Federal Register 
for notice and comment. Therefore, the Regulatory Flexibility Act does 
not apply.

List of Subjects in 41 CFR Part 301-4

    Government employees, Travel, Travel allowances, Travel and 
transportation expenses

List of Subjects in 41 CFR Part 302-2

    Government employees, Relocation allowances and entitlements, 
Transfers

    For the reasons set out in the preamble, 41 CFR parts 301-4 and 
302-2 are amended to read as follows:

PART 301-4--REIMBURSEMENT FOR USE OF PRIVATELY OWNED CONVEYANCES

    1. The authority citation for part 301-4 continues to read as 
follows:

    Authority: 5 U.S.C. 5701-5709; E.O. 11609, 36 FR 13747, 3 CFR, 
1971-1975 Comp., p. 586.

    2. Section 301-4.2 is amended by revising paragraph (a); removing 
paragraph (b); redesignating paragraphs (c) and (d) as paragraphs (b) 
and (c) respectively; by removing the number ``25'' every place it 
appears in new paragraph (c), and adding in its place the number 
``30''; and by removing the phrase ``paragraphs (d)(1) and (2)'' in new 
paragraph (c)(3), and adding in its place the phrase ``paragraphs (c) 
(1) and (2)'', to read as follows:

Sec. 301-4.2  When use of a privately owned conveyance is advantageous 
to the Government.

    (a) Authorized mileage reimbursement rates. When the use of a 
privately owned conveyance is authorized or approved as advantageous to 
the Government for the performance of official travel, either within or 
outside the United States, as provided in Sec. 301-2.2(d)(3) of this 
chapter, reimbursement to the traveler shall be at the mileage rates 
prescribed in this paragraph.

    (1) For use of a privately owned automobile: 30 cents per mile.
    (2) For use of a privately owned airplane: 88.5 cents per mile.
    (3) For use of a privately owned motorcycle: 24.5 cents per mile.
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Sec. 301-4.4  [Amended]

    3. Section 301-4.4 is amended by removing the number ``18.0'' 
wherever it appears in the section, and adding in its place the number 
``23.5''; and by removing the number ``9.5'' where it appears in 
paragraph (c), and adding in its place the number ``10.5''.

PART 302-2--ALLOWANCES FOR SUBSISTENCE AND TRANSPORTATION

    4. The authority citation for part 302-2 continues to read as 
follows:

    Authority: 5 U.S.C. 5721-5734; 20 U.S.C. 905(a); E.O. 11609, 36 
FR 13747, 3 CFR, 1971-1975 Comp., p. 586.


Sec. 302-2.3  [Amended]

    5. Section 302-2.3 is amended by removing the reference ``Sec. 301-
4.2(a)(2)'' where it appears in the introductory text of paragraph (c), 
and by adding in its place the reference ``Sec. 301-4.2(a)(1)''.

    Dated: December 15, 1994.
Julia M. Stasch,
Acting Administrator of General Services.
[FR Doc. 94-31790 Filed 12-23-94; 8:45 am]
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