[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 157 (Wednesday, August 14, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40413-40414]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-17416]
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GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
[Notice-MA-2019-07; Docket No. 2019-0002; Sequence No. 19]
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 20-01, Fiscal Year (FY)
2020 CONUS per diem reimbursement rates.
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SUMMARY: The GSA Fiscal Year FY 2020 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 Date: This notice applies to travel performed on
or after October 1, 2019, through September 30, 2020.
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 20-01.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The CONUS per diem reimbursement rates prescribed in Bulletin 20-01
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 questions six and seven of GSA's per diem
Frequently Asked Questions page at www.gsa.gov/perdiem for more
information on the special review
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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 2020, one new non-standard area (NSA) location was added for
Boise, Idaho (Ada County). In addition, Park County, Montana was added
to the Big Sky, Montana NSA area. In Montana, Missoula and Flathead
Counties were separated into their own NSAs instead of a combined NSA.
The standard CONUS lodging rate will increase from $94 to $96. The M&IE
reimbursement rate tiers were unchanged for FY 2020. The standard CONUS
M&IE rate remains at $55, and the M&IE NSA tiers remain at $56-$76.
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 has removed and now solely publishes
the M&IE deduction table from Appendix B to 41 CFR Chapter 301, 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 (internet publication) and 2018 (removal from the FTR) for the
M&IE deduction 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 now
constitute the only notification of revisions in CONUS per diem
reimbursement rates to agencies other than the changes posted on the
GSA website.
Jessica Salmoiraghi,
Associate Administrator, Office of Government-wide Policy.
[FR Doc. 2019-17416 Filed 8-13-19; 8:45 am]
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