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§17356 General personnel authorities

Title 42 › Chapter CHAPTER 152— - ENERGY INDEPENDENCE AND SECURITY › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER VIII— - INTERNATIONAL ENERGY PROGRAMS › Part Part B— - International Clean Energy Foundation › § 17356

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

An agency head may send an employee to work at the Foundation if the Foundation’s Chief Executive Officer asks, and the agency must be reimbursed for that detail. A detailed employee keeps their agency job status, rights, seniority, and benefits. An agency employee with a career or career‑conditional appointment who transfers to the Foundation with their agency head’s permission can be rehired into their old job (or one with similar seniority, status, and pay) if they leave the Foundation for any reason except misconduct, neglect of duty, or malfeasance and apply within 90 days. The agency must rehire them within 30 days and pay them at least what they would have earned if they never left. No more than 30 Foundation employees may be hired, paid, or removed without following civil service laws. The CEO can set pay without following federal classification or General Schedule rules, but no pay may exceed the Executive Schedule level IV rate under section 5315 of title 5. “Agency”: an executive agency as defined in section 105 of title 5. “Detail”: a temporary assignment or loan of an employee to the Foundation without changing the employee’s official position.

Full Legal Text

Title 42, §17356

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(a)Upon request of the Chief Executive Officer, the head of an agency may detail any employee of such agency to the Foundation on a reimbursable basis. Any employee so detailed remains, for the purpose of preserving such employee’s allowances, privileges, rights, seniority, and other benefits, an employee of the agency from which detailed.
(b)(1)An employee of an agency who is serving under a career or career conditional appointment (or the equivalent), and who, with the consent of the head of such agency, transfers to the Foundation, is entitled to be reemployed in such employee’s former position or a position of like seniority, status, and pay in such agency, if such employee—
(A)is separated from the Foundation for any reason, other than misconduct, neglect of duty, or malfeasance; and
(B)applies for reemployment not later than 90 days after the date of separation from the Foundation.
(2)An employee who satisfies paragraph (1) is entitled to be reemployed (in accordance with such paragraph) within 30 days after applying for reemployment and, on reemployment, is entitled to at least the rate of basic pay to which such employee would have been entitled had such employee never transferred.
(c)Of persons employed by the Foundation, no more than 30 persons may be appointed, compensated, or removed without regard to the civil service laws and regulations.
(d)The Chief Executive Officer may fix the rate of basic pay of employees of the Foundation without regard to the provisions of chapter 51 of title 5 (relating to the classification of positions), subchapter III of chapter 53 of such title (relating to General Schedule pay rates), except that no employee of the Foundation may receive a rate of basic pay that exceeds the rate for level IV of the Executive Schedule under section 5315 of such title.
(e)In this section—
(1)the term “agency” means an executive agency, as defined by section 105 of title 5; and
(2)the term “detail” means the assignment or loan of an employee, without a change of position, from the agency by which such employee is employed to the Foundation.

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Effective Date

Section effective on the date that is 1 day after Dec. 19, 2007, see section 1601 of Pub. L. 110–140, set out as a note under section 1824 of Title 2, The Congress.

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42 U.S.C. § 17356

Title 42The Public Health and Welfare

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73