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(d) Requests to executive departments or agencies for 

 information, suggestions, estimates, statistics, and 

 technical assistance; duty of executive depart- 

 ments and agencies to furnish information, etc. 



The Office is authorized to secure directly from 

 any executive department or agency information, 

 suggestions, estimates, statistics, and technical as- 

 sistance for the purpose of carrying out its functions 

 under this chapter. Each such executive department 

 or agency shall furnish the information, sugges- 

 tions, estimates, statistics, and technical assistance 

 directly to the Office upon its request. 



(e) Requests to heads of executive departments or 

 agencies for detail of personnel; reimbursement. 



On request of the Office, the head of any executive 

 department or agency may detail, with or without 

 reimbursement, any of its personnel to assist the 

 Office in carrying out its functions under this, chap- 

 ter. 



(f) .Appointment and compensation of personnel. 



The Director shall, in accordance with such poli- 

 cies as the Board shall prescribe, appoint and fix the 

 compensation of such persoruiel as may be necessary 

 to carry out the provisions of this chapter. (Pub. L. 

 92-484, § 6, Oct. 13. 1972. 86 Stat. 799.) 



§ 476. Technology Assessment Advisory Council. 



(a) Establishment ; composition. 



The Office shall establish a Technology Assessment 

 Advisory Council (hereinafter referred to as the 

 "Council")., The Council shall be composed of the 

 following twelve members: 



(1) ten members from the public, to be ap- 

 pointed by the Board, who shall be persons 

 eminent in one or more fields of the physical, 

 biological, or social sciences or engineering or 

 experienced in the administration of tech- 

 nological acu.ities, or who may be judged quali- 

 fied on the basis of contributions made to edu- 

 cational or public activities; 



(2) the Comptroller General; and 



(3) the Director of the Congressional Re- 

 search Service of the Library of Congress. 



(b) Duties. 



The Council, upon request by the Board, shall — 



( 1 ) review and make recommendations to the 

 Board on activities undertaicen by the Office or 

 on the initiation thereof in accordance with sec- 

 tion 472(d) of this title; 



(2) review and make recommendations to the 

 Board on the findings of any assessment made 

 by or for the Office ; and 



(3 1 undertake such additional related tasks 

 as the Board may direct. 



(c) Chairman and Vice Chairman; election by Council 

 from members appointed from public; terms and 

 conditions of service. 



The Council by maiority vote, shall elect from its 

 members appointed under subsection (a) (1) of this 

 section a Chairman and a Vice Chairman, who shall 

 serve for such time and under such conditions as 

 the Council may prescribe. In the absence of the 

 Chairman, or in the event of his incapacity, the Vice 

 Chairman shall act as Chairman. 



(d) Terms of office of members appointed from public; 

 reappointment. 



The term of office of each member of the Council 

 appointed under subsection (a)(1) of this section 

 shall be four years except that any such member ap- 

 pointed to fill a vacancy occuring prior to the expir- 

 ation of the term for which his predecessor was ap- 

 pointed shall be appoinnted for the remainder of 

 such term. No person shall be appointed a member 

 of the Council under subsection (a> (1) of this sec- 

 tion more than twice. Terms of the members ap- 

 pointed under subsection (a)(1) of this section shall 

 be staggered so as to establish a rotating member- 

 ship according to such method as the Board may 

 devise. 



(e) Payment to Comptroller General and Director of 

 Congressional Research Service of travel and 

 other necessary expenses; payment to members 

 appointed from public of compensation and reim- 

 bursement for travel, subsistence, and other 

 necessary expenses. 



(1 ) The members of the Council other than those 

 appointed under subsection (a)(1) of this section 



shall receive no pay for their services as members of 

 the Council, but shall be allowed necessary travel 

 expenses (or, in the alternative, mileage for use of 

 privately owned vehicles and a per diem in lieu of 

 subsistence at not to exceed the rate prescribed in 

 sections 5702 and 5704 of Title 5) , and other neces- 

 sary expenses incurred by them in the performance 

 of duties vested in the Council, without regard to the 

 provisions of subchapter 1 of chapter 57 and sec- 

 tion 5731 of Title 5, and regtUations promulgated 

 thereunder. 



(2) The members of the Council appointed under 

 subsection (a)(1) shall receive compensation for 

 each day engaged in the actual performance of 

 duties vested in the Council at rates of pay not in 

 excess of the daily equivalent of the highest rate 

 of basic pay set forth in the General Schedule of 

 section 5332(a) of Title 5, and in addition shall be 

 reimbursed for travel, subsistence, and other neces- 

 sary expenses in the manner provided for other 

 members of the Council imder paragraph ( 1) of this 

 subsection. (Pub. L. 92-484, § 7, Oct. 13, 1972, 86 Stat. 

 800.) 



§ 477. Utilization of services of Library of Congress. 



(a) Authority of Librarian to make available services 

 and assistance of Congressional Research 

 Service. 



To carry out the objectives of thts chapter, the 

 Librarian of Congress is authorized to'make avail- 

 able to the Office such services and assistance of the 

 Congressional Research Service as may be appro- 

 priate and feasible. 



(b) Scope of services and assistance. 



Such senices and assistance made available to the 

 Office shall include, but not be limited to, all of the 

 services and assistance which the Congressional Re- 

 search Service is otherwise authorized to provide to 

 the Congress. 



(c) Services or responsibilities performed by Congres- 

 sional Research Service for Congress not altered 

 or modified; authority of Librarian to establish 

 within Congressional Research Service additional 

 divisions, etc 



