§3507 — Title 22 Foreign Relations and Intercourse | U.S. Code

Summary

Lets the President create a Council on International Scientific and Technological Cooperation to help guide the Institute. The Council must advise the Director about Institute policies, programs, planning, use of resources, work overseas, and ties with the private sector. It must write an annual report about its main advice. The Director must get the Council’s advice before picking, ending, or making big changes to the Institute’s work, or before moving programs into the Institute. The Council can review all new programs before they start and must recommend approval or disapproval for any program that will cost more than $500,000 or last longer than two years. The President appoints up to 25 members and names a Chairman. Members serve four-year terms, but the first group will have staggered terms of one, two, three, or four years so about a quarter leave each year. Members are chosen from U.S. science and technology experts, foreign experts (no more than one-third of the Council), and up to five U.S. government officials (one must be the Secretary of State or a designee). Non-government members can be paid up to the daily equivalent of the highest General Schedule rate (5 U.S.C. 5332) while working, and get travel and per diem under 5 U.S.C. 5703. Those members are not federal employees, except U.S. citizen members are treated as government employees for certain criminal conflict-of-interest rules (18 U.S.C. 202, 203, 205, 207, 208, and 209). The Council may set up an Executive Committee of seven members (including the Chairman, with no more than three government employees) to act for it when needed.

Title 22, §3507

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(a)In order to further the purposes of the Institute, the President is authorized to establish a Council on International Scientific and Technological Cooperation (hereafter in this chapter referred to as the “Council”).

(b)(1)The Council shall—

(A)advise the Director with respect to the policies, programs, planning, and procedures of the Institute;

(B)make recommendations to the Director on the use of the resources available to the Institute; and

(C)advise the Director on matters involving the activities of the Institute overseas and appropriate relationships with the private sector, within and outside the United States.

(2)The Council shall prepare an annual report setting forth the major recommendations made and advice given pursuant to paragraph (1) of this subsection.

(c)The Director shall seek the advice of the Council before making any decision with respect to the selection or termination of, or any significant change in, the areas and issues in which the Institute conducts its activities, and with respect to the transfer of specific programs and projects from any other Government agency to the Institute. The Council shall have the authority to review all new programs and initiatives before their implementation and to make recommendations with regard to the approval or disapproval of new programs and initiatives having a cost in excess of $500,000 or a duration greater than two years.

(d)The Council shall consist of up to twenty-five members appointed by the President, one of whom the President shall designate as Chairman. The members of the Council shall be appointed for terms of four years, except that the members first appointed shall be appointed for terms of one, two, three, or four years, as designated by the President at the time of their appointment, so that the terms of approximately one-fourth of the members of the Council expire in any year. The members of the Council shall be selected from among—

(1)citizens of the United States who are widely recognized for their broad knowledge of, or expertise in, science and technology, or their interest in the scientific and technological problems of developing countries;

(2)citizens of foreign countries who by their knowledge and expertise are capable of providing advice and guidance to the Institute on the application of science and technology to the problems of developing countries, except that not more than one-third of the membership of the Council shall consist of members who are citizens of foreign countries; and

(3)officials of the United States Government, except that not to exceed five members of the Council may be appointed under this paragraph, one of whom shall be the Secretary of State or his designee.

(e)Members of the Council who are not officials of the United States Government shall be entitled to compensation, not to exceed the daily equivalent of the highest rate which may be paid to an employee under the General Schedule established by section 5332 of title 5, while in the performance of their duties under this chapter, and to reimbursement for expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence while away from their homes or regular places of business in the same manner as persons employed intermittently in Government service are allowed expenses under section 5703 of title 5. Members of the Council who are not officials of the United States Government shall not be deemed officers, employees, or otherwise in the service or employment of the United States Government for any purpose, except that members of the Council who are United States citizens shall be deemed Government employees for the purposes of section 202, 203, 205, 207, 208, and 209 of title 18.

(f)The Council may appoint from among its members an Executive Committee, and such other committees it deems necessary, to assist it in exercising its powers and functions. The Executive Committee shall consist of seven members, one of whom shall be the Chairman of the Council and not more than three of whom shall be employees of the United States Government. The Executive Committee shall exercise such powers and functions as are delegated to it by the Council.

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This chapter, referred to in subsecs. (a) and (e), was in the original “this title”, meaning title IV of Pub. L. 96–53, Aug. 14, 1979, 93 Stat. 371, which is classified principally to this chapter. For complete classification of title IV to the Code, see Tables.

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Section effective Oct. 1, 1979, see section 512(a) of Pub. L. 96–53, set out as an

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of 1979 Amendment note under section 2151 of this title. References in Other Laws to GS–16, 17, or 18 Pay RatesReferences in laws to the rates of pay for GS–16, 17, or 18, or to maximum rates of pay under the General Schedule, to be considered references to rates payable under specified sections of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, see section 529 [title I, § 101(c)(1)] of Pub. L. 101–509, set out in a note under section 5376 of Title 5.

§3507 Council on International Scientific and Technological Cooperation

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Title 22, §3507

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