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| | THE JOINT TRAVEL
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| | DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
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| | The Per Diem, Travel and | 
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| | BRIEF OF REVISION | 
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| | INTRODUCTION TO JOINT TRAVEL REGULATIONS, (JTR) DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE CIVILIAN PERSONNEL | 
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| | These regulations are published by the Per Diem, Travel and Transportation Allowance Committee (PDTATAC).� The Committee is chartered under the Department of Defense (DoD).� Its members are a Deputy Assistant Secretary for each of the DoD military departments and the Director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Corps (NOAA), the Commandant of the Coast Guard (USCG), and the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service (USPHS).� The Committee Chairman is the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (MPP) | 
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| | The regulations in this Volume pertain to per diem, travel and transportation allowances, relocation allowances, and certain other allowances of employees in DoD.� They're issued under the following statutory regulations and authorities: 3 U.S.C. 102 note; 5 U.S.C. �552a, �2105-2106, �3102, �3105, �3109, �3371-3375, �3392(c), �4109, �4111, �5332, �5521-5527, �5561, �5564, Chapter 57, �7131(b), �7324(b), �7342, �8134, �8336, �8412, �8414, and �8901-8913; 10 U.S.C. �832 and �4312; 18 U.S.C. �202, �287, �1001, and 1353; 20 U.S.C. �901-907 and �921-932; 28 U.S.C. �2514; 29 U.S.C. �701; 31 U.S.C. �1108(g), �1353, �3702 and �3726; 32 U.S.C. �709; 40 U.S.C. �486; 46 U.S.C. �1241(a); 49 U.S.C. �1371, �1517, 40118; 50 App. U.S.C. �1001 and �2160; 3 CFR �1971-1975 Comp., p. 586; 5 CFR �550.401-550.408; 41 CFR Chapters 300-304; Department of State Foreign Affairs Manual, Volume 6, Section 625(d), Foreign Assistance Act of 1961; 36 FR 13474 and 13747; and the Defense Production Act of 1950 (64 Stat. 819, as amended).� Authority also is provided by Executive Orders, General Services Administration (GSA) Commuted Rate Schedule, and DoD directives.� In addition, provisions are incorporated that are based on the Federal Travel Regulation published by GSA, the Standardized Regulations (Government Civilians, Foreign Areas) issued by Department of State, appropriate decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States, the GSA Board of Contract Appeals and the OSD General Counsel.� With the exception of employees of DoD appointed under Section 625(d) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, who are entitled to per diem, travel, and transportation allowances in accordance with Volume 6, State Department Foreign Affairs Manual, this is the sole entitlement implementation for DoD components.� In the event of a dispersal of headquarters, the authority for prescribing the entitlements in these regulations becomes vested in each Committee member.� Each member may issue necessary regulations prescribing entitlements applicable to that Service until the headquarters activities again are centralized.� At that time, regulation-issuing authority becomes vested jointly in the voting Committee members. | 
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| | Under 31 U.S.C. �3702, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) settles claims involving civilian federal employees' travel, transportation and relocation allowances.� OMB delegated this authority to the General Services Administration (GSA), GSA Board of Contract Appeals (GSBCA).� The GSBCA also may issue an advance decision with respect to the same subject matter. | 
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| | A civilian employee who disagrees with a claim settlement by a paying office may submit the claim to GSBCA (no specific form or format is required) at the address listed below.� The claim must be forwarded through the proper paying office, which must attach� an administrative report explaining why the claim was settled as it was. | 
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| | An accountable officer desiring an advance decision on an issue involving the interpretation of the JTR must forward the request for an advance decision through the PDTATAC. | 
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Board of Contract Appeals 18th & F Sts., NW 
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| | Throughout the JTR, Comptroller General Decisions from the General Accounting Office (GAO) and decisions from the General Services Administration Board of Contract Appeals (GSBCA) are referenced.� Decisions appearing in the published annual GAO volumes are cited by volume, page number, and date, e.g., 71 Comp. Gen. 530 (1992).� Decisions of the Comptroller General that do not appear in the published volumes are cited by the appropriate file number and date, e.g., B-248928, September 30, 1992.� Website decisions of the GSBCA are listed by category and case number (the case number includes the date the decision was issued), e.g., Travel Cases, GSBCA 14401-TRAV issued 06-01-98.� In JTR, these decisions are cited by GSBCA case number, category, and date, e.g., (GSBCA 14515-TRAV, July 22, 1998). | 
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| | For GSBCA information/decisions visit their website at: http://www.gsbca.gsa.gov/ | 
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| | The paragraph numbering system of the JTR is coordinated with that of the Joint Federal Travel Regulations (JFTR).� The volume letter "C," precedes the 4- or 5-digit paragraph number (the first or first two digits indicate the chapter number) and subparagraph designators, as shown in the following breakdown.� (NOTE:� Not all paragraph numbers are in consecutive numerical sequence (e.g., C1000, C1001, C1002); numbers may be skipped (e.g., C5001, C5005, C5010) so that new paragraphs can be added without changing the numbers of existing paragraphs.) | 
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| | Changes to the entitlements in the JTR are initiated by DoD Civilian Travel Determinations (CTDs), Department of State Travel Per Diem Supplements, Per Diem (PD) Bulletins, and General Services Administration (GSA) Bulletins, memoranda, or amendments. | 
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| | CTDs are effective on the indicated date.� They may be effective on the date published in the JTR, on the date of signature by the PDTATAC Chairman, on a date after the last signature mutually agreed upon by the Services, or, if permitted or required by the statute or a change to the FTR, some other date.� When an effective date is earlier than the date assigned to the printed change page, the changes are disseminated by message. | 
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| | PDs make changes in the per diem rates contained in Appendices B and Appendix D.� PDs normally are effective on the date of final approval.� PDs are posted to the PDTATAC Internet home page (www.dtic.mil/perdiem/) and bulletin board system (703-325-2809) no later than the last day of each month, and may be for downloaded by users worldwide. | 
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