[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 159 (Wednesday, August 17, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54805-54806]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-19563]


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GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

[Notice-MA-2016-06; Docket No. 2016-0002; Sequence 21]


Maximum Per Diem Reimbursement Rates for the Continental United 
States (CONUS)

AGENCY: Office of Government-wide Policy (OGP), General Services 
Administration (GSA).

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ACTION: Notice of GSA Per Diem Bulletin FTR 17-01, Fiscal Year (FY) 
2017 Continental United States (CONUS) per diem reimbursement rates.

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SUMMARY: The General Services Administration's Fiscal Year (FY) 2017 
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: 
    Effective: August 17, 2016.
    Applicability: This notice applies to travel performed on or after 
October 1, 2016, through September 30, 2017.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For clarification of content, contact 
Ms. Jill Denning, Program Analyst, 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 17-01.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Background: The CONUS per diem reimbursement rates prescribed in 
Bulletin 17-01 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 FY2017, no new non-standard area 
locations were added. The standard CONUS lodging allowance rate will 
increase from $89 to $91. The M&IE reimbursement rate tiers were not 
revised for FY2017. 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 in 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 11, 2016.
Troy Cribb,
Associate Administrator, Office of Government-wide Policy.
[FR Doc. 2016-19563 Filed 8-16-16; 8:45 am]
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