§14301 Establishment, Membership, and Employees

Summary

Creates the Appalachian Regional Commission. It has a Federal Cochairman, picked by the President with Senate approval, and the Governor of each participating State. Each Governor may name one alternate from the Governor’s cabinet or staff, and the President names an alternate for the Federal Cochairman. An alternate may vote if the main member is absent, dead, disabled, removed, or resigns, but a state alternate does not count toward a state-member quorum when that is required. The Federal Cochairman is one of two cochairmen, and the state members elect the other for a term of not less than one year. The Federal Cochairman is paid at level III of the Executive Schedule (section 5314 of title 5) and that alternate at level V (section 5316 of title 5). State members and alternates are paid by their States. Powers and votes listed in sections 14302(c) and (d) cannot be delegated to nonmembers or nonvoters. The Commission has an executive director who runs its administration and staff. Members, alternates, officers, and employees are not federal employees except the Federal Cochairman, that alternate, the Federal Cochairman’s staff, and federal employees detailed under section 14306(a)(3).