22 U.S.C. § 3106: Use of experts and…

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An official the President picks can hire temporary or part-time experts and consultants under 5 U.S.C. 3109. Those people can be paid up to the highest rate that law allows. If they must work away from home or their usual workplace, they can get travel expenses and per diem under 5 U.S.C. 5703(b) for intermittent federal workers. That official can also use any federal agency’s services, equipment, staff, and facilities. These can be used on a reimbursable basis when the President decides it is appropriate.

Title 22, §3106

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(a)Compensation and travel expenses

Any official designated by the President to carry out this chapter may procure the temporary or intermittent services of experts and consultants in accordance with the provisions of section 3109 of title 5. Persons so employed shall receive compensation at a rate not in excess of the maximum amount payable under such section. While away from his home or regular place of business and engaged in the performance of services in conjunction with the provisions of this chapter, any such person may be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by section 5703(b) of title 5 for persons in the Government service employed intermittently.

(b)Use of available Federal agency services, equipment, personnel, and facilities

Any official designated by the President to carry out this chapter may use, on a reimbursable basis when appropriate (as determined by the President), the available services, equipment, personnel, and facilities of any agency or instrumentality of the United States Government.

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Section 5703 of title 5, referred to in subsec. (a), was amended generally by Pub. L. 94–22, § 4, May 19, 1975, 89 Stat. 85, and, as so amended, does not contain a subsec. (b).

§3106 Use of Experts and Administrative Support Services

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Title 22, §3106

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