[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 161 (Tuesday, August 22, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Page 39786]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-17677]


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GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION

[Notice-MA-2017-05; Docket No. 2017-0002; Sequence 15]


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 18-01, Fiscal Year (FY) 
2018 CONUS per diem reimbursement rates.

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SUMMARY: GSA's Fiscal Year (FY) 2018 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: This notice applies to travel performed on or 
after October 1, 2017, through September 30, 2018.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For clarification of content, contact 
Ms. Jill Denning, Office of Government-wide Policy, Office of Asset and 
Transportation Management, at 202-208-7642, or by email at 
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#34404655425158445b585d574d745347551a535b42"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="5a2e283b2c3f362a35363339231a3d293b743d352c">[email protected]</span></a>. Please cite Notice of GSA Per Diem Bulletin FTR 
18-01.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Background: The CONUS per diem reimbursement rates prescribed in 
Bulletin 18-01 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 numbers six and seven of GSA's per 
diem Frequently Asked Questions, at www.gsa.gov/perdiemfaqs, for more 
information on the special review 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 2018, no 
new non-standard area locations were added. The standard CONUS lodging 
allowance rate will increase from $91 to $93. The M&IE reimbursement 
rate tiers were not revised for FY 2018.
    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 now solely publishes the M&IE meal 
breakdown table, 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 at 68 FR 22314, on April 28, 2003, for 
per diem reimbursement rates, and in 2015 for the M&IE breakdown 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, such as this one, now 
constitute the only notification of revisions in CONUS per diem 
reimbursement rates to agencies other than the changes posted on the 
GSA Web site.

    Dated: August 14, 2017.
Allison Fahrenkopf Brigati,
Associate Administrator, Office of Government-wide Policy, General 
Services Administration.
[FR Doc. 2017-17677 Filed 8-21-17; 8:45 am]
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