[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR591.306]

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                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
                CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
 
PART 591--ALLOWANCES AND DIFFERENTIALS--Table of Contents
 
         Subpart C--Allowance Based on Duty at Remote Worksites
 
Sec. 591.306  Employee eligibility for an allowance.

    (a) An authorized allowance rate shall be paid to each employee with 
a permanent duty station at or within a remote post of duty approved 
under Sec. 591.304, regardless of type of appointment or work schedule, 
only (1) when the employee travels the prescribed minimum distance and 
time, or is subject to prescribed minimum inconvenience or hardship 
factors, while commuting from the nearest established community or 
suitable place of residence and the remote duty post, or (2) the 
employee remains at the worksite at the direction of management because 
daily commuting is impractical.
    (b) An employee shall be paid an authorized allowance rate for those 
days on which he or she incurs unusual expense in commuting to a remote 
post of duty or for those days on which he or she is subject to 
extraordinary inconvenience or hardship during the commuting.
    (c) An employee who resides permanently, or temporarily for his or 
her own convenience at a remote duty post is not eligible for an 
authorized allowance rate during his or her period of residence.

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