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| | THE JOINT FEDERAL 
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| | The Per Diem, Travel and | 
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| | BRIEF OF REVISION | 
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| | INTRODUCTION TO JOINT FEDERAL TRAVEL REGULATIONS, VOLUME 1 (JFTR) UNIFORMED SERVICE MEMBERS | 
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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 from each of the 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 members of the Uniformed Services, including all regular and reserve components.� They're issued under the following statutory regulations and authorities:� 5 U.S.C. �552a, �4109, �4111, �5536, and �5703; 10 U.S.C. �101, �270(b), �688(a), �705, �716-717, �832, �860 (c)(2), �1036, �1041, �1074a, �1079, �1086, �1105, �1173, �1201-1221, �1293, �1401, �2013, �2104, �2107, �2631-2636, �3021, �3496, �3541, �3687, �3721-3722, �3911, �3914, �4312-4313, Chapter 61, �6323, �8021, �8496, �8541, and �8911; 14 U.S.C. �469 and �512; 26 U.S.C. �162; 31 U.S.C. �1108(g), �1348 (b), and �3702; 32 U.S.C. �318-319 and �503-506; 33 U.S.C. � 857(a); 37 U.S.C. �101, �204(g) and (h), �310, �404-407, �411-412, �420, �433, �554, Chapter 7, �1001, �1002(b), �1006, and �1011; 42 U.S.C. �218a; 49 U.S.C. �1371 and �1517; DoDFMR, Volume 7A; DoD Directive 1241.1, 1330.4, 1344.10, and 5154.29; U. S. Coast Guard Pay Manual; Coast Guard, COMDTINST 1710.5 (series) and M7220.29 (series).� Authority also is provided by Executive Orders, appropriate decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States, Defense Office of Hearings and Appeals, and the OSD General Counsel.� When necessary, a Uniformed Service may supplement these regulations by administrative regulations (see par. U1010), but may not prescribe allowances that differ in amount or type from those authorized by these regulations, unless specifically permitted herein.� Administrative regulations of the DoD Services which implement these regulations must be submitted to PDTATAC for review and approval before implementation.� See 37 U.S.C. �1001 and DoD Directive 5154.29.� In the event of a dispersal of headquarters, the authority for prescribing the entitlements in these regulations becomes vested in each Committee member to issue necessary regulations prescribing entitlements applicable to that Service until the headquarters activities again are centralized.� At that time, regulation-issuing authority again becomes vested in the Committee. | 
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| | CLAIMS AND ADVANCE DECISIONS | 
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| | Under 31 U.S.C. �3702, the Secretary of Defense settles claims involving Uniformed Service members' pay, allowances, travel, transportation, retired pay, and survivor benefits.� The Secretary of Defense also may issue an advance decision with respect to the same subject areas.� The Secretary of Defense has delegated claims settlement appeal authority to the Defense Office of Hearings and Appeals (DOHA). | 
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| | A Service member who disagrees with a claim settlement by a paying office may submit the claim to DOHA (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 JFTR must forward a request for an advance decision through the PDTATAC. | 
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| | Defense Office of Hearings and Appeals (DOHA) 
Claims Appeals Board 
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| | Throughout the JFTR, Comptroller General Decisions from the General Accounting Office (GAO) and decisions from the Department of Defense Office of Hearings and Appeals (DOHA) 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 DOHA are listed by category, type, year, and case number, e.g., Claims Program, Military Personnel Redacted Decisions, 1999, DOHA Case Number 99030812.� In JFTR, these decisions are cited by DOHA claims case number and date, e.g., (DOHA Claims Case No. 97091101, May 5, 1998). | 
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| | For DOHA information/decisions visit their website at: http://www.defenselink.mil/dodgc/doha/ | 
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| | The paragraph numbering system of the JFTR is coordinated with that of the Joint Travel Regulations (JTR).� The volume letter "U," precedes a 4- or 5-digit paragraph number (the first or first two digits indicating the chapter number) and subparagraph designators, as shown in the following breakdown. (Note: Not all paragraph numbers are in consecutive numerical sequence (e.g., U1010, U1011, U1012); numbers may be skipped (e.g., U5305, U5310, U5315) so that new paragraphs can be added without changing the numbers of existing paragraphs.) 
Paragraph U 5 310 -B2a(1)(a)Volume 1�� . . . . . . . . . . .� 
Chapter 5�� . . . . . . . . . . . . . .� 
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| | References and citations to the JFTR should be in the following format: JFTR, par. U5310 JFTR, par. U5310-A JFTR, par. U5310-A1 JFTR, par. U5310-A1a JFTR, par. U5310-A1a(1)(a) JFTR, pars. U5310-U5350 | 
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| | Paragraphs and subparagraphs may contain itemizations.� Reference to a specific item should be in the following format: | 
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| | Changes to the entitlements in the JFTR are initiated by DOD Joint Determinations (JD), Department of State Travel Per Diem Supplements, Per Diem Determinations (PDs), or memoranda. | 
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| | JDs are effective on the indicated date.� They may be effective on the date published in the JFTR, 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, some other date.� When an effective date is earlier than the date assigned to the printed change page, changes are disseminated by message. | 
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| | PDs make changes in the per diem rates contained in Appendices B and D, and changes to the tables contained in Appendices J and K.� PDs are normally 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 downloaded by users worldwide. | 
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| | Printed changes are numbered consecutively and ordinarily are issued monthly.� They contain the text and rate changes directed in determinations, bulletins, supplements, and administrative memoranda.� The determinations, bulletins, supplements and administrative memoranda included in a printed change are shown on the cover sheet of the printed change. | 
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| | Recommendations for changes in the JFTR should contain an explanation of and rationale for the proposed change.� When the proposal relates to an actual situation, the details should be included.� Submit feedback reports concerning inadequate per diem rates in accordance with par. U4140. | 
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