ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-00314R000600250016-7
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• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 27, 2000
• Sequence Number: 16
• Publication Date: January 1, 1969
• Content Type: MF

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PROPOSAL 5: Limit payment of travel and transportation expenses
of an employee retiring abroad to a place in the United States, its territories
or possessions, designated by the employee at the time of retirement.
Present Regulation: Travel and transportation expenses may be authorized
for an employee retiring abroad "to the place where he will reside."
Recommendation: Adopt the above proposal.
Comment: The principal reason for this recommendation is to limit the
current preferential right of those retiring abroad to receive payment of
travel and transportation expenses to any place in the world. The change
is an adjunct to the Committee's proposal in Section I of this Report, which
recommends that CIAR retirees, regardless of duty station (U.S. or abroad),
be granted travel and transportation costs to a place within the United States,
its territories and possessions which they designate at the time of retirement.
Section 4(l)(C) of the CIA Act of 1949, as amended, provides that the Agency,
under such regulations as the Director may prescribe, may pay the cost of
transporting the furniture and HHE upon retirement to the place "where he
(the employee) will reside." Section 4(1)(A) permits a comparable travel
benefit for the employee and his family. Section 911(3) of the Foreign
Service Act of 1946, as amended, contains a similar provision; namely,
payment of travel and transportation expenses. "upon termination of his
services (resignee or retiree) to the place where he will reside." These
statutory similarities are not carried out, however, in the Agency and State
regulatory provisions applicable to overseas retirees. Whereas the Agency
allows overseas retirees to receive travel and transportation expenses to the
place where they will reside, i.e., anywhere in the world, the Department of
State has limited such travel to an officially recorded place of residence in the
United States, its possessions or Puerto Rico. It has also tightened up its
procedures to ensure that changes will not be made except for a good reason
(especially just before retirement). While the Committee does not advocate
that the travel benefit accorded overseas. retirees should conform completely
to the system in the Foreign Service, we do believe an entitlement to travel
and transportation expenses should be limited to a place in the United States,
its territories or possessions.
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available data on employees staying abroad
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rees (22 or 68 retiring under CIAR i
Calendar year
1967). Onl
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en retire abroad, rather than returning c' kleadqu$xters farseparation,_ in order to take advantage of the travel
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benefit available to
overseas reti
IA-practice, employees oft
ua
s are expected to be adversely affected by
the proposed change, and the recommended action should act as a future
-deterrent against personnel not returning to the United States upon
~-p .Cessation of employment. We believe that the number of personnel sta '
L c . overseas should be kept to a minimum for security reasons, and the A g
should not as a matter of
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p
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cy condone or encourage them to re g
=by Paying their travel costs to an overseas destination. main abroad
employee's election to 90 anywhere in th
e world could be more expensive in
so possessionsme cases.. s, its than returning them to the United State territories or
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cy regulations to increase the reimbursement
rate for use of privately owned vehicles for official business in the Metropolitan
.Washington area.
PROPOSAL 6: Amend A
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Present Regulation? R
eimbursements for use of privately owned passen
vehicles between points within the Metropolitan Washington area are ger
--; authorized at rates not to exceed 10
cents per mile.
Recommendation: Revise present regulation to provide for mileage payments
at rates not to exceed 12 cents per mile with corresponding increases in flat rates established for certain areas within the Metropolitan Washington the
area.
Comment: The present regulation evolved from an Agency decision to establish a schedule of flat -rate reimbursements for official trips via961
-private vehicles between the Headquarters Building and certain destination
points in the Metropolitan area. Those reimbursements as well as reimbu
ments between other locations in the Metropolitan Washington area were rse-
limited to a 10 cents per mile rate which is the mileage rate authorized by
the Standardized Government Travel Regulations (SGTR's) when a POV is
used in lieu of a taxi between common carrier terminals and place of abode
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or place of business. It is to be noted that the SGTR provision in this latter
instance has the effect of allowing 10
( cents per mile for "non official" namely, the one-half of the round trip in which the mileage
employee is not an occupant of the_POV), so long as the total round trip allowance on this basis
does not exceed the one-way taxi fare. The same paragraph of the ,
provides that employees authorized to use a POV in the conduct of official
s
business within or outside the designated post of duty may be authorized
reimbursement on a mileage basis at a rate not to exceed 12 cents. At the
present time, Agency regulations authorize a not to exceed 12 cents per mile
rate for official travel within the United States except travel in the
Metropolitan Washington area. In the
with -the, provision's of the SGTR's, it isiconcluded thatithe mileage rate consistency
base for travel within the Metropolitan Washington area should be increased
from a maximum of 10 cents to 12 cents.
PROPOSAL 9: Eliminate du
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regulations for authorizing home leave travel and home leave (time ency
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will return to an assignment outside the Hn;rPri c~. <
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Cot_ The quoted language in
Civil Service Commission rules and regulations wis the standard conta in'
hich implement the iOver eas
Allowance and Differentials Act. These rules are binding upon the Agency
unless, specific exception is taken to them under the Director's- power to
adopt other authorities. The quoted material
law or CSC regulations and is confusing to the extent that its bis not
roaderolangu,age -
could be construed by some to have a different meaning.