91 STAT. 598 



PUBLIC LAW 95-91— AUG. 4, 1977 



42 use 7233. 



5 use 5332 note. 



EXPERTS A'Sn C0NSULT.4NT.S 



Sec. 623. The Secretary may obtain services a.s authorized by section 

 3109 of title .'), United States Code, at rates not to exceed the daily rate 

 prescrib(>d for prade GS-18 of the General Schedule under section 

 5332 of title 5, United States Code, for persons in Government service 

 employed intermittently. 



ADVISORY COMMrrTEES 



Establishment. Skc. 624. (a) The Secretary is authorized to establish in accordance 



42 use 7234. witli the Federal Advisory Committee Act such advisory committees 

 5 use app. I. as he may deem appropriate to assist in the performance of his func- 



tions. Members of such advisory committees, other than full-time 

 employees of the Federal Government, while attending meetings of 

 such committees or while otherwise serving at the request of the Sec- 

 retary while servin<r away from their homes or regular places of busi- 

 ness, niay be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of 

 subsistence, as authorized by section .5703 of title .5, LTnited States Code, 

 for individuals in the Government serving without pay. 

 Meetings. (b) Section 17 of the Federal Energy Administration Act of 1974 



15 use 776. shall be applicable to advisory committees chartered by the Secretary, 



or transferred to the Secretary or the Department under this Act, 

 except that where an advisory comtuittee advises the Secretary on 

 matters pertaining to research and development, the Secretary may 

 determine that such meeting shall be closed because it involves research 

 and development matters and comes within the exemption of section 

 5:)2b(c)(4) of title ft. United States Code. 



42 use 7235. 



10 use 7421 et 

 seg. 



ARMEn SERVICES PERSO.VNEI, 



Sec. 62.'). (a) The Secretary is authorized to provide for participa- 

 tion of Armed Forces personnel in carrying out functions authorized 

 to be performed, on the <late of enactment of this Act, in the Energy 

 Eesearch and Development Administration and under chapter 641 of 

 title 10, I'nited States Code. Members of the Armed Forces may be 

 detailed for .service in the Department by the Secretary concerned (as 

 such term is defined in section 101 of such title) pursuant to cooperative 

 agreemetits with the Secretary. 



(b) The detail of anv personnel to the Department under this sec- 

 tion shall in no way affect status, office, rank, or grade which officers 

 or eidisted men may occupy or hold or any emolument, perquisite, 

 right, privilege, or iK'netit incident to. or arising out of, such status, 

 office, rank, or grade. Any member so detailed shall not be charged 

 against anv statutory or other limitation or strengths a])plicable to the 

 A^^-med Forces, but shall be charged to such limitations as may be 

 a|)plicable to the Department. A member so detailed shall not Iw subject 

 to direction or contiol by his anued force, or any officer thereof, 

 directly or indirectly, with respect to the responsibilities exercised in 

 the position to which detailed. 



Part C — General Arministrative Provisions 



general authority 



42 use 7251. Sec. 641. To the extent necessary or appropriate to perform any 



function transferred by this Act, the Secretary or any officer or 

 employee of the Department may exercise, in carrying out the func- 

 tion so transferred, any authority or part thereof available by law, 



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