§3048 — Title 50 War and National Defense | U.S. Code

Summary

Heads of departments and intelligence agencies can assign their employees to work in the Intelligence Community Assignment Program. Assignments can be paid back to the home agency or not. Unpaid assignments last as agreed, up to 3 years, and can be extended one more year if both agency heads agree it’s in the public interest. Assigned employees may get benefits, allowances, travel pay, or incentives used to help staffing. An agency may pay a lodging allowance if several conditions are met: the allowance is the lower of the actual lodging cost or a cap set by the Director of National Intelligence together with the Secretary of Defense for Defense employees, or with the head of the employee’s agency for others; the employee keeps their family home near their original work location where they used to commute; the lodging is near the new work site; the original and new work sites are more than 20 miles apart; the commute to the new site is at least 10 miles longer than to the original site; and the employee’s pay rate does not exceed the basic pay for GS‑15.

Title 50, §3048

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(a)(1)Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the head of a department with an element in the intelligence community or the head of an intelligence community agency or element may detail any employee within that department, agency, or element to serve in any position in the Intelligence Community Assignment Program on a reimbursable or a nonreimbursable basis.

(2)Nonreimbursable details may be for such periods as are agreed to between the heads of the parent and host agencies, up to a maximum of three years, except that such details may be extended for a period not to exceed one year when the heads of the parent and host agencies determine that such extension is in the public interest.

(b)(1)An employee detailed under subsection (a) may be authorized any benefit, allowance, travel, or incentive otherwise provided to enhance staffing by the organization from which the employee is detailed.

(2)The head of an agency of an employee detailed under subsection (a) may pay a lodging allowance for the employee subject to the following conditions:

(A)The allowance shall be the lesser of the cost of the lodging or a maximum amount payable for the lodging as established jointly by the Director of National Intelligence and—

(i)with respect to detailed employees of the Department of Defense, the Secretary of Defense; and

(ii)with respect to detailed employees of other agencies and departments, the head of such agency or department.

(B)The detailed employee maintains a primary residence for the employee’s immediate family in the local commuting area of the parent agency duty station from which the employee regularly commuted to such duty station before the detail.

(C)The lodging is within a reasonable proximity of the host agency duty station.

(D)The distance between the detailed employee’s parent agency duty station and the host agency duty station is greater than 20 miles.

(E)The distance between the detailed employee’s primary residence and the host agency duty station is 10 miles greater than the distance between such primary residence and the employees parent duty station.

(F)The rate of pay applicable to the detailed employee does not exceed the rate of basic pay for grade GS–15 of the General Schedule.

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Editorial Notes

References in Text

GS–15 of the General Schedule, referred to in subsec. (b)(2)(F), is set out under section 5332 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. Codification Section was formerly classified to section 404h of this title prior to editorial reclassification and renumbering as this section.

Amendments

2004—Subsec. (b)(2)(A). Pub. L. 108–458 substituted “Director of National Intelligence” for “Director of Central Intelligence” in introductory provisions. 2002—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 107–306 struck out heading and text of subsec. (c). Text read as follows: “Not later than March 1, 1999, and annually thereafter, the Director of Central Intelligence shall submit to the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate a report describing the detail of intelligence community personnel pursuant to subsection (a) during the 12-month period ending on the date of the report. The report shall set forth the number of personnel detailed, the identity of parent and host agencies or elements, and an analysis of the benefits of the details.” 2001—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 107–108 designated existing provisions as par. (1) and added par. (2).

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Effective Date

of 2004 AmendmentFor Determination by President that amendment by Pub. L. 108–458 take effect on Apr. 21, 2005, see Memorandum of President of the United States, Apr. 21, 2005, 70 F.R. 23925, set out as a note under section 3001 of this title. Amendment by Pub. L. 108–458 effective not later than six months after Dec. 17, 2004, except as otherwise expressly provided, see section 1097(a) of Pub. L. 108–458, set out in an

Effective Date

of 2004 Amendment; Transition Provisions note under section 3001 of this title.

Effective Date

Pub. L. 105–107, title III, § 303(d), Nov. 20, 1997, 111 Stat. 2252, provided that: “The amendment made by subsection (a) [enacting this section] shall apply to an employee on detail on or after January 1, 1997.”

§3048 Detail of intelligence community personnel—Intelligence Community Assignment Program

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Title 50, §3048

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