State of Connecticut Office of the State Comptroller MEMORANDUM NO. 97-6


	STATE OF CONNECTICUT
NANCY WYMAN COMPTROLLER	OFFICE OF THE STATE COMPTROLLER 55 ELM STREET HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT 06106-1775	MARK OJAKIAN DEPUTY COMPTROLLER

MEMORANDUM NO. 97-6

February 3, 1997

TO THE HEADS OF ALL STATE AGENCIES

ATTENTION:	Chief Administrative and Fiscal Officers, Business Managers, and Payroll and Personnel Officers
SUBJECT:	Revision of Maximum Per Diem Rates for Localities

The federal per diem rates stated in Memorandum 96-20 have been revised for travel in the Continental United States effective January 1, 1997. New per diem localities have been added. Federal per diem rates for meals and incidental expenses are $30, $34, $38, and $42 dependent on the locality. A detailed listing of all localities in the Continental United States is attached in the revised Appendix A. Any collective bargaining meals, per diem and incidental expenses exceeding the applicable rate are reportable.

Questions may be directed to the Accounts Payable Division at 860-702-3395.

NANCY WYMAN
STATE COMPTROLLER

APPENDIX A

Key City	County and/or Other Defined Location	M&IE Rate
CONUS, Standard Rate (Applies to all locations within CONUS not specifically listed below or encompassed by the boundary definitionof a listed point.)		$30
ALABAMA
Birmingham	Jefferson	38
Gulf Shores	Baldwin	34
Huntsville	Madison	34
Mobile	Mobile	38
Montgomery	Montgomery	30

ARIZONA
Casa Grande	Pinal	30
Chinle	Apache	30
Flagstaff	All points in Coconino County not covered under Grand Canyon per diem area	34
Grand Canyon	All points in the Grand Canyon National Park and Kaibab National Forest within Coconino County	38
Kayenta	Navajo	30
Phoenix/Scottsdale	Maricopa	38
Prescott	Yavapai	34
Tuscon	Pima County; Davis-Monthan AFB	34
Yuma	Yuma	30

ARKANSAS
Hot Springs	Garland	30
Little Rock	Pulaski	30

CALIFORNIA
Clearlake	Lake	34
Death Valley	Inyo	42
Eureka	Humboldt	34
Fresno	Fresno	34
Gualala/Point Arena	Mendocino	42
Los Angeles	Los Angeles, Kern, Orange and Ventura Counties; Edwards AFB; Naval Weapons Center and Ordinance Test Station, China Lake	42
Mammoth Lake/Bridgeport	Mono	42
Merced	Merced	34
Modesto	Stanislaus	34
Monterey	Monterey	38
Napa	Napa	42
Oakhurst/Madera	Madera	30
Oakland	Alameda, Contra Costa and Marin	34
Ontario/Victorville/Barstow	San Bernardino	38
Palm Springs	Riverside	38
Palo Alto/San Jose	Santa Clara	42
Redding	Shasta	34
Sacramento	Sacramento	38
San Diego	San Diego	38
San Francisco	San Francisco	42
San Luis Obispo	San Luis Obispo	38
San Mateo/Redwood Cit	y San Mateo	38
Santa Barbara	Santa Barbara	34
Santa Cruz	Santa Cruz	38
Santa Rosa	Sonoma	38
South Lake Tahoe	El Dorado (see also Stateline, NV)	38
Stockton	San Joaquin	34
Tahoe City	Placer	38
Visalia	Tulare	38
West Sacramento	Yolo	30
Yosemite National Park	Mariposa	42

COLORADO
Aspen	Pitkin	42
Boulder	Boulder	38
Colorado Springs	El Paso	30
Cortez	Montezuma	30
Denver	Denver, Adams, Arapahoe & Jefferson	34
Durango	La Plata	34
Fort Collins/Loveland	Larimer	30
Glenwood Springs	Garfield	34
Grand Junction	Mesa	30
Gunnison	Gunnison	30
Keystone/Silverthorne	Summit	42
Montrose	Montrose	30
Pagosa Springs	Archuleta	30
Pueblo	Pueblo	30
Steamboat Springs	Routt	34
Telluride	San Miguel	38
Trinidad	Las Animas	30
Vail	Eagle	42

CONNECTICUT
Bridgeport/Danbury	Fairfield	38
Hartford	Hartford and Middlesex	30
New Haven	New Haven	30
New London/Groton	New London	34
Putnam/Danielson	Windham	30
Salisbury/Lakeville	Litchfield	34
Vernon	Tolland	30

DELAWARE
Dover	Kent	34
Lewes	Sussex	38
Wilmington	New Castle	38

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Washington, D.C. (also the cities of Alexandria, Falls Church and Fairfax, and the counties of Arlington, Loudoun, and Fairfax in Virginia;and the counties of Montgomery and Prince Georges in Maryland)(See also Maryland and Virginia.)		42
FLORIDA
Altamonte Springs	Seminole	34
Bradenton	Manatee	30
Cocoa Beach	Brevard	34
Daytona Beach	Volusia	34
Fort Lauderdale	Broward	34
Fort Myers	Lee	34
Fort Pierce	Saint Lucie	30
Fort Walton Beach	Okaloosa	30
Gainesville	Alachua	34
Gulf Breeze	Santa Rosa	34
Jacksonville	Duval County; Naval Station Mayport	30
Key West	Monroe	42
Kissimmee	Osceola	30
Lakeland	Polk	30
Miami	Dade	42
Naples	Collier	38
Orlando	Orange	34
Panama City	Bay	30
Pensacola	Escambia	34
Punta Gorda	Charlotte	34
Saint Augustine	Saint Johns	34
Sarasota	Sarasota	34
Stuart	Martin	34
Tallahassee	Leon	34
Tampa/St. Petersburg	Hillsborough and Pinellas	38
Vero Beach	Indian River	30
West Palm Beach	Palm Beach	38

GEORGIA
Albany	Dougherty	30
Athens	Clarke	34
Atlanta	Clayton, De Kalb, Fulton, Cobb	38
	and Gwinnett
Augusta	Richmond	30
Columbus	Muscogee	30
Conyers	Rockdale	30
Macon	Bibb	30
Savannah	Chatham	34

IDAHO
Boise	Ada	34
Coeur D'Alene	Kootenai	34
Idaho Falls	Bonneville	34
Ketchum/Sun Valley	Blaine	38
McCall	Valley	34
Sandpoint	Bonner	30
Stanley	Custer	34

ILLINOIS
Bloomington	McLean	30
Champaign/Urbana	Champaign	34
Chicago	Du Page, Cook and Lake	42
Decatur	Macon	30
Joliet	Will	30
Kankakee	Kankakee	30
Peoria	Peoria	34
Rock Island	Rock Island	30
Rockford	Winnebago	38
Springfield	Sangamon	30

INDIANA
Anderson	Madison	30
Bloomington/Crane	Monroe and Martin	34
Burlington Beach/	Porter	30
Valparaiso
Carmel	Hamilton	38
Elkhart	Elkhart	30
Evansville	Vanderburgh	34
Fort Wayne	Allen	30
French Lick	Orange	30
Gary/Merrillville	Lake	30
Greenwood	Johnson	30
Indianapolis	Marion County; Fort Benjamin	38
	Harrison
Lafayette	Tippecanoe	34
Madison	Jefferson	30
Michigan City	La Porte	30
Muncie	Delaware	30
Nashville	Brown	30
South Bend	St. Joseph	30

IOWA
Bettendorf/Davenport	Scott	30
Cedar Rapids	Linn	34
Des Moines	Polk	30
Iowa City	Johnson	30

KANSAS
Kansas City	Johnson and Wyandotte (See also Kansas City, MO.)	42
Manhattan	Riley	30
Wichita	Sedgwick	34

KENTUCKY
Covington	Kenton	34
Florence	Boone	30
Lexington	Fayette	34
Louisville	Jefferson	38

LOUISIANA
Baton Rouge	East Baton Rouge Parish	34
Bossier City	Bossier Parish	30
Gonzales	Ascension Parish	30
Lafayette	Lafayette Parish	30
Lake Charles	Calcasieu Parish	30
New Orleans	Parishes of Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines and St. Bernard	42
Opelouses	Saint Landry	30
Shreveport	Caddo Parish	34
Slidell	St. Tammany Parish	30

MAINE
Augusta	Kennebec	30
Bangor	Penobscot	30
Bar Harbor	Hancock	34
Bath	Sagadahoc	30
Calais	Washington	30
Kennebunk/Sanford	York	34
Kittery	Portsmouth, Naval Shipyard	34
	(See also Portsmouth, N.H.)
Portland	Cumberland	38
Rockport	Knox	34
Wiscasset	Lincoln	30

MARYLAND (For the counties of Montgomery & Prince Georges, see District of Columbia.)
Annapolis	Anne Arundel	38
Baltimore	Baltimore and Harford	38
Columbia	Howard	42
Frederick	Frederick	38
Grasonville	Queen Annes	34
Hagerstown	Washington	30
Lexington Park/	St. Marys	34
St. Inigoes/Leonardtown
Lusby	Calvert	34
Ocean City	Worcester	42
Saint Michaels	Talbot	38
Salisbury	Wicomico	34

MASSACHUSETTS
Andover	Essex	38
Boston	Suffolk	42
Cambridge/Lowell	Middlesex	34
Hyannis	Barnstable	38
Martha's Vineyard/	Dukes and Nantucket	42
Nantucket
Northampton	Hampshire	30
Pittsfield	Berkshire	34
Plymouth	Plymouth	30
Quincy	Norfolk	34
South Deerfield/Green	field Franklin	30
Springfield	Hampden	30
Taunton/New Bedford	Bristol	30
Worcester	Worcester	30

MICHIGAN
Ann Arbor	Washtenaw	30
Battle Creek	Calhoun	30
Cadillac	Wexford	30
Charlevoix	Charlevoix	30
Detroit	Wayne	38
Flint	Genesee	30
Frankfort	Benzie	30
Gaylord	Otsego	34
Grand Rapids	Kent	34
Grayling	Crawford	30
Holland	Ottawa	30
Kalamazoo	Kalamazoo	30
Lansing/East Lansing	Ingham	30
Leland	Leelanau	30
Ludington	Mason	30
Mackinac Island	Mackinac	38
Manistee	Manistee	30
Midland	Midland	30
Mount Pleasant	Isabella	30
Muskegon	Muskegon	30
Ontonagon	Ontonagon	30
Petosky	Emmet	34
Pontiac/Troy	Oakland	38
Port Huron	St. Clair	38
Sault Ste. Marie	Chippewa	34
South Haven	Van Buren	30
St. Joseph/Benton	Berrien	34
Harbor/Niles
Traverse City	Grand Traverse	34
Warren	Macomb	30

MINNESOTA
Duluth	St. Louis	38
Hinckley	Pine	30
Minneapolis/St. Paul	Anoka, Hennepin, Dakota and Ramsey Counties; Fort Snelling Military Reservation and Navy Astronautics Group (Detachment BRAVO), Rosemount	38
Rochester	Olmsted	30

MISSISSIPPI
Biloxi/Gulfport/	Harrison, Jackson and Hancock	34
Pascagoula/Bay St.	Louis
Greenville	Washington	30
Jackson	Hinds	34
Philadelphia	Neshoba	30
Ridgeland	Madison	34
Robinsonville	Tunica	30
Vicksburg	Warren	30

MISSOURI
Branson	Taney	30
Cape Girardeau	Cape Girardeau	30
Hannibal	Marion	30
Jefferson City	Cole	30
Kansas City	Clay, Jackson and Platte (See also Kansas City, Kansas.)	42
Lake Ozark	Miller	34
Osage Beach	Camden	34
Springfield	Greene	34
St. Louis	St. Charles and St. Louis	42

MONTANA
Great Falls	Cascade	30
Kalispell/Polson	Flathead and Lake	30

NEBRASKA
Kearney	Buffalo	30
Lincoln	Lancaster	30
Omaha	Douglas	34

NEVADA
Elko	Elko	30
Incline Village		38
Las Vegas	Clark County; Nellis AFB	38
Reno	All points in Washoe County other than the city of Incline Village	34
Stateline	Douglas (See also South Lake Tahoe, California)	38
Winnemucca	Humboldt	30

NEW HAMPSHIRE
Concord	Merrimack	30
Conway	Carroll	34
Durham	Strafford	30
Hanover	Grafton and Sullivan	38
Laconia	Belknap	30
Manchester	Hillsborough	30
Portsmouth/Newington	Rockingham County; Pease AFB (See also Kittery, Maine.)	34

NEW JERSEY
Atlantic City	Atlantic	38
Belle Mead	Somerset	34
Camden/Moorestown	Camden and Burlington	38
Edison	Middlesex	38
Flemington	Hunterdon	34
Freehold/Eatontown	Monmouth County; Fort Monmouth	34
Millville	Cumberland	34
Newark	Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Passaic and Union	42
Ocean City/Cape May	Cape May	30
Parsippany/Dover	Morris County; Picatinny Arsenal	38
Princeton/Trenton	Mercer	38
Salem	Salem	30
Tom's River	Ocean	34

NEW MEXICO
Albuquerque	Bernalillo	34
Cloudcroft	Otero	30
Farmington	San Juan	34
Gallup	McKinley	30
Las Cruces/White Sands	Dona Ana	30
Los Alamos	Los Alamos	34
Raton	Colfax	30
Santa Fe	Santa Fe	42
Taos	Taos	34

NEW YORK
Albany	Albany	38
Auburn	Cayuga	30
Batavia	Genesee	34
Binghamton	Broome	34
Buffalo	Erie	38
Catskill	Greene	30
Corning	Steuben	34
Glens Falls	Warren	38
Ithaca	Tompkins	30
Kingston	Ulster	34
Lake Placid	Essex	34
Monticello	Sullivan	34
New York City	The boroughs of the Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island; Nassau and Suffolk Counties	42
Niagara Falls	Niagara	34
Oswego	Oswego	30
Owego	Tioga	30
Palisades/Nyack	Rockland	34
Plattsburgh	Clinton	34
Poughkeepsie	Dutchess	30
Rochester	Monroe	42
Romulus/Waterloo	Seneca	30
Saratoga Springs	Saratoga	38
Schenectady	Schenectady	34
Syracuse	Onondaga	34
Utica	Oneida	34
Watertown	Jefferson	30
Watkins Glen	Schuyler	30
West Point	Orange	30
White Plains	Westchester	42

NORTH CAROLINA
Asheville	Buncombe	34
Charlotte	Mecklenburg	38
Duck/Outer Banks	Dare	34
Fayetteville	Cumberland	30
Greensboro/High Point	Guilford	34
Morehead City	Carteret	30
New Bern/Havelock	Craven	30
Research Park/Raleigh/	Wake, Durham and Orange	38
Durham/Chapel Hill
Wilmington	New Hanover	30
Winston-Salem	Forsyth	34

OHIO
Akron	Summit	34
Bellevue/Norwalk	Huron	30
Cambridge	Guernsey	30
Canton	Stark	30
Cincinnati/Evendale	Hamilton and Warren	34
Cleveland	Cuyahoga	38
Columbus	Franklin	34
Dayton/Fairborn	Montgomery and Greene; Wright-Patterson AFB	30
Elyria	Lorain	30
Fairfield/Hamilton	Butler	30
Findlay	Hancock	30
Geneva	Ashtabula	30
Jackson	Jackson and Pike	30
Lancaster	Fairfield	30
Perrysburg	Wood	30
Port Clinton/Oakharbor	Ottawa	30
Portsmouth	Scioto	30
Sandusky	Erie	30
Springfield	Clark	34
Tinney/Fremont	Sandusky	30
Toledo	Lucas	34

OKLAHOMA
Eufaula	McIntosh	30
Norman	Cleveland	30
Oklahoma City	Oklahoma	30
Tulsa/Bartlesville	Osage, Tulsa and Washington	30

OREGON
Ashland/Medford	Jackson	38
Beaverton	Washington	38
Bend	Deschutes	30
Clackamas/Milwaukie	Clackamas	30
Coos Bay	Coos	30
Crater Lake/Klamath	Klamath	38
Falls
Eugene/Florence	Lane	34
Gold Beach	Curry	30
Lincoln City/Newport	Lincoln	38
Portland	Multnomah	38
Salem	Marion	30
Seaside	Clatsop	30

PENNSYLVANIA
Allentown	Lehigh	34
Chester/Radnor	Delaware	42
Easton	Northampton	30
Erie	Erie	30
Gettysburg	Adams	34
Harrisburg	Dauphin	34
King of Prussia/Fort Washington	Montgomery County, except Bala Cynwyd (See also Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.)	38
Lancaster	Lancaster	34
Lebanon	Lebanon County; Indian Town	30
	Gap Military Reservation
Mechanicsburg	Cumberland	30
Mercer	Mercer	30
Philadelphia	Philadelphia County; City of	38
	Bala Cynwyd in Montgomery County
Pittsburgh	Allegheny	38
Reading	Berks	30
Scranton	Lackawanna	34
Shippingport/Beaver Falls	Beaver	30
State College	Centre	34
Uniontown	Fayette	30
Valley Forge/Malvern	Chester	38
Warminster	Bucks County; Naval Air	34
	Development Center
York	York	34

RHODE ISLAND
East Greenwich	Kent County; Naval Construction Battalion Center, Davisville	34
Newport/Block Island	Newport and Washington	42
Providence	Providence	42

SOUTH CAROLINA
Aiken	Aiken	30
Charleston	Charleston and Berkeley	34
Columbia	Richland	30
Greenville	Greenville	38
Hilton Head	Beaufort	34
Myrtle Beach	Horry County; Myrtle Beach AFB	34
Spartanburg	Spartanburg	30

SOUTH DAKOTA
Custer	Custer	30
Hot Springs	Fall River	30
Rapid City	Pennington	30
Sioux Falls	Minnehaha	30
Spearfish	Lawrence	30

TENNESSEE
Chattanooga	Hamilton	30
Gatlinburg	Sevier	34
Johnson City	Washington	30
Knoxville	Knox County; City of Oak Ridge	34
Memphis	Shelby	30
Murfreesboro	Rutherford	30
Nashville	Davidson	38
Townsend	Blount	30

TEXAS
Albilene	Taylor	30
Amarillo	Potter	30
Austin	Travis	34
Brownsville	Cameron	30
College Station/Byran	Brazos	30
Corpus Christi/Ingelside	Nueces and San Patricio	30
Dallas/Fort Worth	Dallas and Tarrant	42
Eagle Pass	Maverick	30
El Paso	El Paso	34
Fort Davis	Jeff Davis	30
Galveston	Galveston	42
Granbury	Hood	30
Houston	Harris County; L.B. Johnson Space Center and Ellington AFB	38
Lajitas	Brewster	30
Laredo	Webb	30
Lubbock	Lubbock	34
McAllen	Hidalgo	30
Midland/Odessa	Ector and Midland	30
Plano	Collin	34
San Antonio	Bexar	34
Temple	Bell	30
Tyler	Smith	30
Victoria	Victoria	30
Waco	McLennan	30


UTAH
Bullfrog	Garfield	34
Cedar City	Iron	30
Moab	Grand	30
Park City	Summit	42
Provo	Utah	34
Salt Lake City/Ogden	Salt Lake, Weber, and Davis Counties; Dugway Proving Ground and Tooele Army Depot	38
St. George	Washington	34
Vernal	Uintah	30

VERMONT
Brattleboro	Windham	30
Burlington	Chittenden	34
Manchester	Bennington	34
Middlebury	Addison	34
Montpelier	Washington	30
Rutland	Rutland	30
St. Albans	Franklin	30
White River Junction	Windsor	30

VIRGINIA
(For the cities of Alexandria, Fairfax, and Falls Church, and the counties of Arlington, Fairfax, and Loudoun, see District of Columbia.)
Blacksburg	Montgomery	30
Charlottesville*		42
Lexington*		30
Lynchburg*		34
Manassas/Manassas Park*	Prince William	30
Richmond*	Chesterfield and Henrico Counties also Defense Supply Center	; 38
Roanoke*	Roanoke	34
Virginia Beach*	Virginia Beach (also Norfolk Portsmouth and Chesapeake)*	38
Wallops Island	Accomack	30
Williamsburg*	Williamsburg (also Hampton, Newport News, York County, Naval Weapons Station, Yorktown)*	34
Wintergreen	Nelson	42

* Denotes independent cities.

WASHINGTON
Anacortes/Mt. Vernon/	Skagit and Island	34
Whidbey Island
Bellingham	Whatcom	34
Bremerton	Kitsap	30
Friday Harbor	San Juan	38
Kelso/Longview	Cowlitz	34
Lynnwood/Everett	Snohomish	34
Ocean Shores	Grays Harbor	34
Port Angeles	Clallam	34
Port Townsend	Jefferson	30
Seattle	King	38
Spokane	Spokane	38
Tacoma	Pierce	30
Tumwater/Olympia	Thurston	30
Vancouver	Clark	34

WEST VIRGINIA
Berkeley Springs	Morgan	30
Charleston	Kanawha	30
Harpers Ferry	Jefferson	30
Martinsburg	Berkeley	30
Morgantown	Monongalia	30
Parkersburg	Wood	30
Wheeling	Ohio	34

WISCONSIN
Appleton	Outagamie	30
Brookfield	Waukesha	38
Eagle River	Vilas	30
Eau Claire	Eau Claire	34
Green Bay	Brown	30
La Crosse	La Crosse	34
Lake Geneva	Walworth	34
Madison	Dane	34
Milwaukee	Milwaukee	34
Mishicot	Manitowoc	30
Oshkosh	Winnebago	34
Racine/Kenosha	Racine and Kenosha	34
Rhinelander/Minocqua	Oneida	30
Sheboygan/Plymouth	Sheboygan	30
Sturgeon Bay	Door	30
Wautoma	Waushara	30
Wisconsin Dells	Columbia	38

WYOMING
Cody	Park	30
Jackson	Teton	42
Thermopolis	Hot Springs	30

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