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51 U.S.C. § 31101 — Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel
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**(a) Establishment and Members.—** There is established an Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel consisting of a maximum of 9 members who shall be appointed by the Administrator for terms of 6 years each. Not more than 4 such members shall be chosen from among the officers and employees of the Administration.
**(b) Chairman.—** One member shall be designated by the Panel as its Chairman.
**(c) Duties.—** The Panel shall—
(1) review safety studies and operations plans referred to it, including evaluating the Administration’s compliance with the return-to-flight and continue-to-fly recommendations of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, and make reports thereon;
(2) advise the Administrator and Congress with respect to—
(A) the hazards of proposed or existing facilities and proposed operations;
(B) the adequacy of proposed or existing safety standards; and
(C) management and culture related to safety; and
(3) perform such other duties as the Administrator may request.
**(d) Compensation and Expenses.—**
(1) **Compensation.—**
(A) *Federal officers and employees.—* — A member of the Panel who is an officer or employee of the Federal Government shall receive no compensation for the member’s services as such.
(B) *Members appointed from outside the federal government.—* — A member of the Panel appointed from outside the Federal Government shall receive compensation, at a rate not to exceed the per diem rate equivalent to the maximum rate payable under [section 5376 of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5376&num=0&edition=prelim), for each day the member is engaged in the actual performance of duties vested in the Panel.
(2) **Expenses.—** — A member of the Panel shall be allowed necessary travel expense
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**(a) Establishment and Members.—** There is established an Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel consisting of a maximum of 9 members who shall be appointed by the Administrator for terms of 6 years each. Not more than 4 such members shall be chosen from among the officers and employees of the Administration.
**(b) Chairman.—** One member shall be designated by the Panel as its Chairman.
**(c) Duties.—** The Panel shall—
(1) review safety studies and operations plans referred to it, including evaluating the Administration’s compliance with the return-to-flight and continue-to-fly recommendations of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, and make reports thereon;
(2) advise the Administrator and Congress with respect to—
(A) the hazards of proposed or existing facilities and proposed operations;
(B) the adequacy of proposed or existing safety standards; and
(C) management and culture related to safety; and
(3) perform such other duties as the Administrator may request.
**(d) Compensation and Expenses.—**
(1) **Compensation.—**
(A) *Federal officers and employees.—* — A member of the Panel who is an officer or employee of the Federal Government shall receive no compensation for the member’s services as such.
(B) *Members appointed from outside the federal government.—* — A member of the Panel appointed from outside the Federal Government shall receive compensation, at a rate not to exceed the per diem rate equivalent to the maximum rate payable under [section 5376 of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5376&num=0&edition=prelim), for each day the member is engaged in the actual performance of duties vested in the Panel.
(2) **Expenses.—** — A member of the Panel shall be allowed necessary travel expenses (or in the alternative, mileage for use of a privately owned vehicle and a per diem in lieu of subsistence not to exceed the rate and amount prescribed in sections 5702 and 5704 of title 5), and other necessary expenses incurred by the member in the performance of duties vested in the Panel, without regard to the provisions of subchapter I of chapter 57 of title 5, the Standardized Government Travel Regulations, or [section 5731 of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5731&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(e) Annual Report.—** The Panel shall submit an annual report to the Administrator and to Congress. In the first annual report submitted after December 30, 2005, the Panel shall include an evaluation of the Administration’s management and culture related to safety. Each annual report shall include an evaluation of the Administration’s compliance with the recommendations of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board through retirement of the space shuttle.
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**(a)** This section applies to—
(1) positions that are classified above GS–15 pursuant to section 5108; and
(2) scientific or professional positions established under section 3104;
but does not apply to—
(A) any Senior Executive Service position under section 3132; or
(B) any position in the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Drug Enforcement Administration Senior Executive Service under section 3151.
**(b)**
(1) Subject to such regulations as the Office of Personnel Management prescribes, the head of the agency concerned shall fix the rate of basic pay for any position within such agency to which this section applies. A rate fixed under this section shall be—
(A) not less than 120 percent of the minimum rate of basic pay payable for GS–15 of the General Schedule; and
(B) subject to paragraph (3), not greater than the rate of basic pay payable for level III of the Executive Schedule.
The payment of a rate of basic pay under this section shall not be subject to the pay limitation of section 5306(e) or 5373.
(2) Subject to paragraph (1), effective at the beginning of the first applicable pay period commencing on or after the first day of the month in which an adjustment takes effect under section 5303 in the rates of pay under the General Schedule, each rate of pay established under this section for positions within an agency shall be adjusted by such amount as the head of such agency considers appropriate.
(3) In the case of an agency which has a performance appraisal system which, as designed and applied, is certified under section 5307(d) as making meaningful distinctions based on relative performance, paragraph (1)(B) shall apply as if the reference to “level III” were a reference to “level II”.
(4) No employee may suffer a reduction in pay by reaso
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**(a)** The allowance for actual expenses for transportation may not exceed the lowest first-class rate by the transportation facility used unless it is certified, in accordance with regulations prescribed under [section 5738 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5738&num=0&edition=prelim), that—
(1) lowest first-class accommodations are not available; or
(2) use of a compartment or other accommodation authorized or approved by the head of the agency concerned or his designee is required for security purposes.
**(b)** Instead of the maximum fixed by subsection (a) of this section, the allowance to an employee of the Government for actual expenses for transportation on an inter-island steamship in Hawaii may not exceed the rate for accommodations on the steamship that is equivalent as nearly as possible to the rate for the lowest first-class accommodations on trans-pacific steamships.
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### Statutory Notes
Section 2474, Pub. L. 85–568, title II, § 204, July 29, 1958, 72 Stat. 431; Pub. L. 88–426, title III, § 305(13)(B), Aug. 14, 1964, 78 Stat. 423; Pub. L. 88–448, title IV, § 401(g), Aug. 19, 1964, 78 Stat. 490, which established the Civilian-Military Liaison Committee, had been previously omitted from the Code due to the abolition of the Committee and transfer of its functions to the President of the United States by sections 1(e) and 3(a) of Reorg. Plan No. 4 of 1965, set out in the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees. For restated provisions of subsecs. (b) and (c) of prior section 2474, see [section 20114 of Title 51](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title51-section20114&num=0&edition=prelim), National and Commercial Space Programs.
Section 2475, Pub. L. 85–568, title II, § 205, July 29, 1958, 72 Stat. 432, authorized international cooperation agreements. See [section 20115 of Title 51](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title51-section20115&num=0&edition=prelim).
Section 2475a, Pub. L. 106–391, title I, § 126, Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1585, related to competitiveness and international cooperation. See section 30701(a), (b)(2) of Title 51.
Section 2475b, Pub. L. 106–391, title III, § 305, Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1592, related to foreign contract limitation. See [section 30702 of Title 51](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title51-section30702&num=0&edition=prelim).
Section 2476, Pub. L. 85–568, title II, § 206, July 29, 1958, 72 Stat. 432; Pub. L. 92–68, § 7, Aug. 6, 1971, 85 Stat. 177; Pub. L. 106–391, title III, § 302(b), Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1591, related to reports to Congress. See [section 20116 of Title 51](https://uscode.house.g
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TITLE 51—NATIONAL AND COMMERCIAL SPACE PROGRAMS
§ 31101
medal of appropriate design, which shall be
known as the Congressional Space Medal of
Honor, to any astronaut who in the performance
of the astronaut’s duties has distinguished him-
self or herself by exceptionally meritorious ef-
forts and contributions to the welfare of the Na-
tion and of humankind.
(b) APPROPRIATIONS.—There is authorized to be
appropriated from time to time such sums of
money as may be necessary to carry out the pur-
poses of this section.
(Pub. L. 111–314, § 3, Dec. 18, 2010, 124 Stat. 3371.)
HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES
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Section
Source (U.S. Code)
Source (Statutes at Large)
30901(a) ......
42 U.S.C. 2461 (1st
par.).
Pub. L. 91–76, § 1, Sept. 29,
1969, 83 Stat. 124.
30901(b) ......
42 U.S.C. 2461 (last
par.).
Pub. L. 91–76, § 2, Sept. 29,
1969, 83 Stat. 124.
§ 30902.
Charles
‘‘Pete’’
Conrad
Astronomy
Awards
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This section may be cited as
the ‘‘Charles ‘Pete’ Conrad Astronomy Awards
Act’’.
(b) DEFINITIONS.—In this section:
(1) AMATEUR ASTRONOMER.—The term ‘‘ama-
teur astronomer’’ means an individual whose
employer does not provide any funding, pay-
ment, or compensation to the individual for
the observation of asteroids and other celes-
tial bodies, and does not include any indi-
vidual employed as a professional astronomer.
(2) MINOR PLANET CENTER.—The term ‘‘Minor
Planet Center’’ means the Minor Planet Cen-
ter of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observ-
atory.
(3) NEAR-EARTH ASTEROID.—The term ‘‘near-
Earth asteroid’’ means an asteroid with a peri-
helion distance of less than 1.3 Astronomical
Units from the Sun.
(4) PROGRAM.—The term ‘‘Program’’ means
the Charles ‘‘Pete’’ Conrad Astronomy Awards
Program established under subs
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