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| | APPENDIX H - TRAVEL PURPOSE CATEGORIES | 
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| | 1. Site Visit | 
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| | Travel to a particular site in order to personally perform operational or managerial activities (e.g., to oversee program activities, grant operations, or manage activities for internal control purposes; carry out an audit, inspection, or repair activity; conduct negotiations; provide technical assistance). | 
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| | 2. Information Meeting | 
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| | Travel to attend a meeting to discuss general agency operations, review status reports, or discuss topics of general interest.� If a site visit was conducted as part of the same trip, consider the entire trip to be for the purpose of a site visit. | 
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| | 3. Training Attendance | 
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| | Travel to receive training. | 
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| | 4. Speech or Presentation | 
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| | Travel to make a speech or a presentation, deliver a paper, or otherwise take part in a formal program other than a training course. | 
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| | 5. Conference Attendance | 
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| | Travel to attend a conference, convention, seminar, or symposium for purposes of observation or education only with no formal role in the proceedings. | 
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| | 6. Relocation | 
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| | Travel performed in conjunction with a transfer from one official duty station to another (same as a permanent change of station or PCS move.) This includes new appointees when they are authorized relocation allowances for reporting to their first duty station. | 
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| | 7. Entitlement Travel | 
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| | Travel entitlements for which an employee (or dependent) may� be eligible while serving at a duty station outside the continental United States; e.g., tour renewal agreement travel for the purpose of taking leave between tours of duty; educational travel, etc. (This type of travel is normally performed in conjunction with a travel entitlement resulting from a change of station assignment or renewal of a tour of duty at duty stations located outside the continental United States.) | 
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| | 8. Special Mission Travel | 
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| | Travel to carry out a special agency mission; (e.g., noncombat military units); provide security to a person or a� shipment (such as a diplomatic pouch); move witnesses from� residence to other locations; travel by Federal beneficiaries and other nonemployees. | 
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| | 9. Emergency Travel | 
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| | Travel to return an employee from a temporary assignment location at Government expense to his or her designated post of duty or home, or other alternate location, where he or� she would normally be present to take care of the emergency situation if the Government had not directed or assigned the employee to another location to perform official business. | 
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| | 10. Other Travel | 
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| | All travel performed for reasons (purposes) which aren't shown in one of the other nine categories listed above.� Even though stated as "other travel," travel authorization and voucher must also detail specific purpose. | 
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| | APPENDIX I - STATE DEPARTMENT STANDARDIZED REGULATIONS | 
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| | PART A - Payments During Ordered Authorized Departure | 
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| | State Department Standardized Regulations
(Government Civilian, Foreign Areas)
Chapter 600
Payments During Ordered Authorized Departure
DEPARTMENTAL REGULATIONS | 
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| | (These regulations, effective 2-24-91, are prescribed by the Secretary of State for adoption by departments in the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.� See Section 640.) | 
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| | 600�� GENERAL | 
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| | 610� DEFINITIONS.� | 
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| | As used in these regulations, the following terms are defined as follows: | 
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| | a.� "Adult dependent" | 
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| | For the purpose of this chapter includes the employee's spouse and any of the relatives defined in Sections 040m as family members who are 21 years of age or older.� (Section 040m is included on last page of this Appendix.) | 
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| | b.� "Advance payment" | 
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| | means the monetary amount payable to an employee ordered/authorized to depart or his/her designated representative in advance of the date on which the employee would otherwise be entitled to be paid. | 
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| | c.� "Day" | 
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| | means calendar day except when otherwise specified. | 
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| | d.� "Department" | 
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| | means any department of the Government of the United States of America, any agency or independent establishment in the executive branch of the Government, and any corporation in the executive branch wholly owned or controlled by the Government. | 
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| | e.� "Dependent" | 
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| | means a member of the employee's family as defined in Section 040m of the Standardized Regulations (Government Civilians, Foreign Areas).� (Section 040m is included on last page of this Appendix.)� Special factors include: | 
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| | (1)� neither member of an assigned career or probationary career married working (tandem) couple should be forced to be evacuated in dependent status.� However, a career or probationary career employee in leave without pay status (LWOP) may be ordered/authorized to depart as a dependent; | 
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| | (2)� locally hired dependent employees should be evacuated or authorized to depart as dependents unless the Chief of Mission decides the position is essential, and the Department of State concurs in the decision. | 
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| | f.�� "Designated representative" | 
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| | means a person 18 years of age or over who is named by an employee for the purpose of caring for, escorting, or receiving monetary payments on behalf of a dependent. | 
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| | g.� "Evacuation" | 
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| | means the authorized or ordered departure of an employee or dependent(s), or any of the circumstances outlined in Section 610j herein.� The terms "evacuated" and "ordered/authorized to depart" are used interchangeably in these regulations. | 
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| | h.� "Evacuation order" | 
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| | means either an oral or written communication which authorizes or orders the departure from the post of assignment. | 
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| | i.�� "Evacuation payment" or "evacuation/departure payment" | 
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| | means a monetary amount payable to an employee, his/her dependents, or designated representative during a period of ordered evacuation or authorized departure. | 
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| | j.�� "Evacuee" | 
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| | means an employee or dependent who because of military or other reasons in the national interest which create imminent danger to the life of the employee or dependents or are in the national interest: | 
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| | (1)� has departed post of assignment under authorized or ordered departure status; or | 
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| | (2)� is ordered or authorized to depart post but can't leave the post because of reasons beyond the control of the employee; and, in the case of an employee, is prevented by circumstances beyond control of the employee and beyond the control of the Government from preforming position duties; or | 
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| | (3)� is prevented from returning to the post while temporarily absent from post but otherwise intended to do so. | 
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| | k.� "Monetary amount" | 
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| | is the net amount of compensation including any allowances or post differential due an employee after making all deductions authorized by law, such as retirement or social security deductions, authorized allotments, Federal withholding tax, and others, when applicable. | 
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| | l.�� "Safehaven" | 
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| | as used in this chapter means (1) a location or place officially designated by the Secretary of State to which an employee and/or dependents will be ordered or authorized to depart; (2) An alternate safehaven is a safehaven approved by the head of agency under individual circumstances when in the interests of the U.S. Government.� Evacuees at a safehaven aren't entitled to diplomatic courtesies, immunities, services and privileges accorded to the official American diplomatic community assigned to the safehaven.� (Also see Section 631a(1).) | 
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| | m.�� Subsistence expense allowance (SEA) | 
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| | means the daily monetary amount payable to assist in offsetting direct added subsistence expenses of evacuees. | 
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