§5815 Administrative provisions

Summary

The Administrator can make the policies, rules, and procedures needed to do the Administration’s work. He must do planning, program reviews, and other studies to help the agency run well and measure progress. Unless sections 5812 and 5814(d) say otherwise, he may delegate duties to staff and allow further redelegation. He may organize the agency and open, change, or close State, regional, district, local, or other field offices. He must create an official seal for the Administration, and courts will accept that seal. The Administrator may create a working capital fund that is available without fiscal year limitation to pay for common administrative services. Stocks of supplies, equipment, assets other than real property, liabilities, and unpaid obligations for services moved into the fund must be transferred into it. Congress may provide additional appropriations. The fund must recover costs from the accounts it serves, in advance or by reimbursement, in amounts that approximate costs, including accrual or annual leave and depreciation of equipment. The fund also keeps money from selling or exchanging its property and from payments for loss or damage to its property. Other executive branch departments, agencies, and instrumentalities may provide him any information he requests to carry out his duties under this subchapter.