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By: FEDweek StaffThe GSA has issued a reminder to agencies on their responsibilities for reporting expenses they incurred for temporary duty travel and employee relocation, including additional responsibilities under a Biden administration sustainability initiative.
A May 31 Federal Register notice notes that under longstanding policies agencies are responsible for reporting by each November 30 on the prior fiscal year’s travel and relocation costs, broken down by agency component. It adds that a Biden administration executive order directed the GSA “to establish tracking and provide annual reporting of agency-specific and government-wide Scope 3 greenhouse gas (GHG) carbon emissions for employee travel.”
GSA said that while it is able capture mileage information through its E-Gov Travel Service that is needed to compute a carbon footprint for commercial airline and privately owned vehicle travel, it “cannot extract this mileage data directly from other agencies’ travel solutions.”
“To consolidate travel-related information into a single repository while enabling necessary GHG calculations, GSA is adding mileage components to the information agencies must submit,” says the notice, which contains a link to a newly issued technical bulletin with detailed instructions.
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