50 U.S.C. § 403e : US Code - Section 403E: Central Intelligence Agency personnel; allowances and benefits

Search 50 U.S.C. § 403e : US Code - Section 403E: Central Intelligence Agency personnel; allowances and benefits

(a) Travel, allowances, and related expenses for officers and
employees assigned to duty stations outside United States
Under such regulations as the Director may prescribe, the Agency,
with respect to its officers and employees assigned to duty
stations outside the several States of the United States of
America, excluding Alaska and Hawaii, but including the District of
Columbia, shall -
(1)(A) pay the travel expenses of officers and employees of the
Agency, including expenses incurred while traveling pursuant to
authorized home leave;
(B) pay the travel expenses of members of the family of an
officer or employee of the Agency when proceeding to or returning
from his post of duty; accompanying him on authorized home leave;
or otherwise traveling in accordance with authority granted
pursuant to the terms of sections 403a to 403s of this title or
any other Act;
(C) pay the cost of transporting the furniture and household
and personal effects of an officer or employee of the Agency to
his successive posts of duty and, on the termination of his
services, to his residence at time of appointment or to a point
not more distant, or, upon retirement, to the place where he will
reside;
(D) pay the cost of packing and unpacking, transporting to and
from a place of storage, and storing the furniture and household
and personal effects of an officer or employee of the Agency,
when he is absent from his post of assignment under orders, or
when he is assigned to a post to which he cannot take or at which
he is unable to use such furniture and household and personal
effects, or when it is in the public interest or more economical
to authorize storage; but in no instance shall the weight or
volume of the effects stored together with the weight or volume
of the effects transported exceed the maximum limitations fixed
by regulations, when not otherwise fixed by law;
(E) pay the cost of packing and unpacking, transporting to and
from a place of storage, and storing the furniture and household
and personal effects of an officer or employee of the Agency in
connection with assignment or transfer to a new post, from the
date of his departure from his last post or from the date of his
departure, from his place of residence in the case of a new
officer or employee and for not to exceed three months after
arrival at the new post, or until the establishment of residence
quarters, whichever shall be shorter; and in connection with
separation of an officer or employee of the Agency, the cost of
packing and unpacking, transporting to and from a place of
storage, and storing for a period not to exceed three months, his
furniture and household and personal effects; but in no instance
shall the weight or volume of the effects stored together with
the weight or volume of the effects transported exceed the
maximum limitations fixed by regulations, when not otherwise
fixed by law.(!1)
(F) pay the travel expenses and transportation costs incident
to the removal of the members of the family of an officer or
employee of the Agency and his furniture and household and
personal effects, including automobiles, from a post at which,
because of the prevalence of disturbed conditions, there is
imminent danger to life and property, and the return of such
persons, furniture, and effects to such post upon the cessation
of such conditions; or to such other post as may in the meantime
have become the post to which such officer or employee has been
assigned.
(2) Charge expenses in connection with travel of personnel,
their dependents, and transportation of their household goods and
personal effects, involving a change of permanent station, to the
appropriation for the fiscal year current when any part of either
the travel or transportation pertaining to the transfer begins
pursuant to previously issued travel and transfer orders,
notwithstanding the fact that such travel or transportation may
not all be effected during such fiscal year, or the travel and
transfer orders may have been issued during the prior fiscal
year.
(3)(A) Order to any of the several States of the United States
of America (including the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth
of Puerto Rico, and any territory or possession of the United
States) on leave of absence each officer or employee of the
Agency who was a resident of the United States (as described
above) at time of employment, upon completion of two years'
continuous service abroad, or as soon as possible thereafter.
(B) While in the United States (as described in paragraph
(3)(A) of this subsection) (!2) on leave, the service of any
officer or employee shall be available for work or duties in the
Agency or elsewhere as the Director may prescribe; and the time
of such work or duty shall not be counted as leave.
(C) Where an officer or employee on leave returns to the United
States (as described in paragraph (3)(A) of this subsection),(!2)
leave of absence granted shall be exclusive of the time actually
and necessarily occupied in going to and from the United States
(as so described) and such time as may be necessarily occupied in
awaiting transportation.
(4) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, transport
for or on behalf of an officer or employee of the Agency, a
privately owned motor vehicle in any case in which it shall be
determined that water, rail, or air transportation of the motor
vehicle is necessary or expedient for all or any part of the
distance between points of origin and destination, and pay the
costs of such transportation. Not more than one motor vehicle of
any officer or employee of the Agency may be transported under
authority of this paragraph during any four-year period, except
that, as a replacement for such motor vehicle, one additional
motor vehicle of any such officer or employee may be so
transported during such period upon approval, in advance, by the
Director and upon a determination, in advance, by the Director
that such replacement is necessary for reasons beyond the control
of the officer or employee and is in the interest of the
Government. After the expiration of a period of four years
following the date of transportation under authority of this
paragraph of a privately owned motor vehicle of any officer or
employee who has remained in continuous service outside the
several States of the United States of America, excluding Alaska
and Hawaii, but including the District of Columbia, during such
period, the transportation of a replacement for such motor
vehicle for such officer or employee may be authorized by the
Director in accordance with this paragraph.
(5)(A) In the event of illness or injury requiring the
hospitalization of an officer or full time employee of the Agency
incurred while on assignment abroad, in a locality where there
does not exist a suitable hospital or clinic, pay the travel
expenses of such officer or employee by whatever means the
Director deems appropriate and without regard to the Standardized
Government Travel Regulations and section 5731 of title 5, to the
nearest locality where a suitable hospital or clinic exists and
on the recovery of such officer or employee pay for the travel
expenses of the return to the post of duty of such officer or
employee. If the officer or employee is too ill to travel
unattended, the Director may also pay the travel expenses of an
attendant;
(B) Establish a first-aid station and provide for the services
of a nurse at a post at which, in the opinion of the Director,
sufficient personnel is employed to warrant such a station:
Provided, That, in the opinion of the Director, it is not
feasible to utilize an existing facility;
(C) In the event of illness or injury requiring hospitalization
of an officer or full time employee of the Agency incurred in the
line of duty while such person is assigned abroad, pay for the
cost of the treatment of such illness or injury at a suitable
hospital or clinic;
(D) Provide for the periodic physical examination of officers
and employees of the Agency and for the cost of administering
inoculation or vaccinations to such officers or employees.
(6) Pay the costs of preparing and transporting the remains of
an officer or employee of the Agency or a member of his family
who may die while in travel status or abroad, to his home or
official station, or to such other place as the Director may
determine to be the appropriate place of interment, provided that
in no case shall the expense payable be greater than the amount
which would have been payable had the destination been the home
or official station.
(7) Pay the costs of travel of new appointees and their
dependents, and the transportation of their household goods and
personal effects, from places of actual residence in foreign
countries at time of appointment to places of employment and
return to their actual residences at the time of appointment or a
point not more distant: Provided, That such appointees agree in
writing to remain with the United States Government for a period
of not less than twelve months from the time of appointment.
Violation of such agreement for personal convenience of an
employee or because of separation for misconduct will bar such
return payments and, if determined by the Director or his
designee to be in the best interests of the United States, any
money expended by the United States on account of such travel and
transportation shall be considered as a debt due by the
individual concerned to the United States.
(b) Allowances and benefits comparable to those paid members of
Foreign Service; special requirements; persons detailed or
assigned from other agencies; regulations
(1) The Director may pay to officers and employees of the Agency,
and to persons detailed or assigned to the Agency from other
agencies of the Government or from the Armed Forces, allowances and
benefits comparable to the allowances and benefits authorized to be
paid to members of the Foreign Service under chapter 9 of title I
of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 4081 et seq.) or any
other provision of law.
(2) The Director may pay allowances and benefits related to
officially authorized travel, personnel and physical security
activities, operational activities, and cover-related activities
(whether or not such allowances and benefits are otherwise
authorized under this section or any other provision of law) when
payment of such allowances and benefits is necessary to meet the
special requirements of work related to such activities. Payment of
allowances and benefits under this paragraph shall be in accordance
with regulations prescribed by the Director. Rates for allowances
and benefits under this paragraph may not be set at rates in excess
of those authorized by section 5724 and 5724a of title 5 when
reimbursement is provided for relocation attributable, in whole or
in part, to relocation within the United States.
(3) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section or any
other provision of law relating to the officially authorized travel
of Government employees, the Director, in order to reflect Agency
requirements not taken into account in the formulation of
Government-wide travel procedures, may by regulation -
(A) authorize the travel of officers and employees of the
Agency, and of persons detailed or assigned to the Agency from
other agencies of the Government or from the Armed Forces who are
engaged in the performance of intelligence functions, and
(B) provide for payment for such travel, in classes of cases,
as determined by the Director, in which such travel is important
to the performance of intelligence functions.
(4) Members of the Armed Forces may not receive benefits under
both this section and title 37 for the same purpose. The Director
and Secretary of Defense shall prescribe joint regulations to carry
out the preceding sentence.
(5) Regulations, other than regulations under paragraph (1),
issued pursuant to this subsection shall be submitted to the
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of
Representatives and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the
Senate before such regulations take effect.