Authority: 5 U.S.C. 5707; 5 U.S.C. 5738; 5 U.S.C. 57415742; 20 U.S.C. 905(a); 31 U.S.C. 1353; 40 U.S.C. 121(c); 49 U.S.C. 40118; E.O. 11609, as amended, 3 CFR, 19711973 Comp., p. 586.
Agencies (as defined in §301-1.1) that spent more than $5 million on travel and transportation payments, including relocation, during the fiscal year immediately preceding the survey year must report this information. Every two years GSA will distribute the Federal Agencies Travel Survey which is assigned Interagency Control No. 0362-GSA-AN. Copies of the survey may be obtained from the Director, Travel Management Policy Division (MTT), Office of Governmentwide Policy, General Services Administration, Washington, DC 20405.
For the fiscal year reporting period you must report the following information:
(a) Estimated total agency payments for travel and transportation of people;
(b) Average costs and duration of trips;
(c) Amount of official travel by purpose(s);
(d) Estimated total agency payments for employee relocation;
(e) The estimated cost of administrating your agencys processing of travel authorizations and travel vouchers; and
(f) Any other specific information GSA may require for the reporting period.
The survey will specify the due date. The head of your agency must appoint a designee at the headquarters level responsible for ensuring that the survey is completed and returned to GSA by the due date. Upon receiving a survey, you must submit the designees name, address, and telephone number to the Director, Travel Management Policy Division (MTT), Office of Governmentwide Policy, General Services Administration, Washington, DC 20405.
If you have major suborganizations, you must submit responses as follows:
(a) A separate response from each suborganization which spent more than $5 million for travel and relocation during the fiscal year immediately preceding the survey year;
(b) A consolidated response covering all your suborganizations which did not spend more than $5 million for travel and relocation during the fiscal year immediately preceding the survey year; and
(c) A consolidated response which covers all components of your agency.
An agency as defined in §301-1.1 of this subtitle.
GSA will issue a Bulletin which will inform agencies of the required information and reporting format(s) for any trip in which the agency authorized and paid for transportation that exceeded the use of coach-class or lowest first-class accommodations. Negative submissions are required. Bulletins regarding the Federal Travel Regulation are located on the Internet at " target="_blank"> www.gsa.gov/bulletin.
You must annually submit the required information to GSA no later than 60 days after the end of each fiscal year.
Yes. You are not required to report data that is protected from public disclosure by statute or Executive Order. However, you are required to submit, in a cover letter to GSA, the following aggregate information.
(a) Aggregate number of authorized other than coach-class trips that are protected from disclosure;
(b) Total cost of actual other than coach-class fares paid that exceeded the coach-class fare; and
(c) Total cost of coach class fares that would have been paid for the same travel.
NOTE to §300-70.103: If the aggregate information is also protected from public disclosure then a negative report must be submitted to GSA.