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5 U.S.C. § 3111 — Acceptance of volunteer service

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5 U.S.C. § 3111 — Acceptance of volunteer service

**(a)** For the purpose of this section, “student” means an individual who is enrolled, not less than half-time, in a high school, trade school, technical or vocational institute, junior college, college, university, or comparable recognized educational institution. An individual who is a student is deemed not to have ceased to be a student during an interim between school years if the interim is not more than 5 months and if such individual shows to the satisfaction of the Office of Personnel Management that the individual has a bona fide intention of continuing to pursue a course of study or training in the same or different educational institution during the school semester (or other period into which the school year is divided) immediately after the interim. **(b)** Notwithstanding [section 1342 of title 31](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title31-section1342&num=0&edition=prelim), the head of an agency may accept, subject to regulations issued by the Office, voluntary service for the United States if the service— (1) is performed by a student, with the permission of the institution at which the student is enrolled, as part of an agency program established for the purpose of providing educational experiences for the student; (2) is to be uncompensated; and (3) will not be used to displace any employee. **(c)** (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), any student who provides voluntary service under subsection (b) of this section shall not be considered a Federal employee for any purpose other than for purposes of section 7905 (relating to commuting by means other than single-occupancy motor vehicles), chapter 81 (relating to compensation for injury) and sections 2671 through 2680 of title 28 (relating to tort claims). (2) In addit

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**(a)** For the purpose of this section, “student” means an individual who is enrolled, not less than half-time, in a high school, trade school, technical or vocational institute, junior college, college, university, or comparable recognized educational institution. An individual who is a student is deemed not to have ceased to be a student during an interim between school years if the interim is not more than 5 months and if such individual shows to the satisfaction of the Office of Personnel Management that the individual has a bona fide intention of continuing to pursue a course of study or training in the same or different educational institution during the school semester (or other period into which the school year is divided) immediately after the interim. **(b)** Notwithstanding [section 1342 of title 31](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title31-section1342&num=0&edition=prelim), the head of an agency may accept, subject to regulations issued by the Office, voluntary service for the United States if the service— (1) is performed by a student, with the permission of the institution at which the student is enrolled, as part of an agency program established for the purpose of providing educational experiences for the student; (2) is to be uncompensated; and (3) will not be used to displace any employee. **(c)** (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), any student who provides voluntary service under subsection (b) of this section shall not be considered a Federal employee for any purpose other than for purposes of section 7905 (relating to commuting by means other than single-occupancy motor vehicles), chapter 81 (relating to compensation for injury) and sections 2671 through 2680 of title 28 (relating to tort claims). (2) In addition to being considered a Federal employee for the purposes specified in paragraph (1), any student who provides voluntary service as part of a program established under subsection (b) of this section in the Internal Revenue Service, Department of the Treasury, shall be considered an employee of the Department of the Treasury for purposes of— (A) [section 552a of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section552a&num=0&edition=prelim) (relating to disclosure of records); (B) subsections (a)(1), (h)(1), (k)(6), and (l)(4) of [section 6103 of title 26](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title26-section6103&num=0&edition=prelim) (relating to confidentiality and disclosure of returns and return information); (C) sections 7213(a)(1) and 7431 of title 26 (relating to unauthorized disclosures of returns and return information by Federal employees and other persons); and (D) [section 7423 of title 26](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title26-section7423&num=0&edition=prelim) (relating to suits against employees of the United States); except that returns and return information (as defined in [section 6103(b) of title 26](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title26-section6103/b&num=0&edition=prelim)) shall be made available to students under such program only to the extent that the Secretary of the Treasury or his designee determines that the duties assigned to such students so require. **(d)** Notwithstanding [section 1342 of title 31](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title31-section1342&num=0&edition=prelim), the head of an agency may accept voluntary service for the United States under chapter 37 of this title and regulations of the Office of Personnel Management. **(e)** (1) For purposes of this section the term “agency” shall include the Architect of the Capitol. With respect to the Architect of the Capitol, the authority granted to the Office of Personnel Management under this section shall be exercised by the Architect of the Capitol. (2) In this section, the term “agency” includes the Congressional Budget Office, except that in the case of the Congressional Budget Office— (A) any student who provides voluntary service in accordance with this section shall be considered an employee of the Congressional Budget Office for purposes of section 203 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (relating to the level of confidentiality of budget data); and (B) the authority granted to the Office of Personnel Management under this section shall be exercised by the Director of the Congressional Budget Office.

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31 U.S.C. § 1342 — Limitation on voluntary services

An officer or employee of the United States Government or of the District of Columbia government may not accept voluntary services for either government or employ personal services exceeding that authorized by law except for emergencies involving the safety of human life or the protection of property. This section does not apply to a corporation getting amounts to make loans (except paid in capital amounts) without legal liability of the United States Government. As used in this section, the term “emergencies involving the safety of human life or the protection of property” does not include ongoing, regular functions of government the suspension of which would not imminently threaten the safety of human life or the protection of property.

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5 U.S.C. § 552a — Records maintained on individuals

**(a) Definitions.—** For purposes of this section— (1) the term “agency” means agency as defined in section 552(e) 11 See References in Text note below. of this title; (2) the term “individual” means a citizen of the United States or an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence; (3) the term “maintain” includes maintain, collect, use, or disseminate; (4) the term “record” means any item, collection, or grouping of information about an individual that is maintained by an agency, including, but not limited to, his education, financial transactions, medical history, and criminal or employment history and that contains his name, or the identifying number, symbol, or other identifying particular assigned to the individual, such as a finger or voice print or a photograph; (5) the term “system of records” means a group of any records under the control of any agency from which information is retrieved by the name of the individual or by some identifying number, symbol, or other identifying particular assigned to the individual; (6) the term “statistical record” means a record in a system of records maintained for statistical research or reporting purposes only and not used in whole or in part in making any determination about an identifiable individual, except as provided by [section 8 of title 13](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title13-section8&num=0&edition=prelim); (7) the term “routine use” means, with respect to the disclosure of a record, the use of such record for a purpose which is compatible with the purpose for which it was collected; (8) the term “matching program”— (A) means any computerized comparison of— (i) two or more automated systems of records or a system of records with non-Federal records for the purpose

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26 U.S.C. § 6103 — Confidentiality and disclosure of returns and return information

**(a) General rule** Returns and return information shall be confidential, and except as authorized by this title— (1) no officer or employee of the United States, (2) no officer or employee of any State, any local law enforcement agency receiving information under subsection (i)(1)(C) or (7)(A), any tribal or local child support enforcement agency, or any local agency administering a program listed in subsection (l)(7)(D) who has or had access to returns or return information under this section or section 6104(c), and (3) no other person (or officer or employee thereof) who has or had access to returns or return information under subsection (c), subsection (e)(1)(D)(iii), paragraph (10), (13), (14), or (15) of subsection (k), paragraph (6), (8), (10), (12), (13) (other than subparagraphs (D)(v) and (D)(vi) thereof), (16), (19), (20), or (21) of subsection (l), paragraph (2) or (4)(B) of subsection (m), or subsection (n), shall disclose any return or return information obtained by him in any manner in connection with his service as such an officer or an employee or otherwise or under the provisions of this section. For purposes of this subsection, the term “officer or employee” includes a former officer or employee. **(b) Definitions** For purposes of this section— (1) **Return** — The term “return” means any tax or information return, declaration of estimated tax, or claim for refund required by, or provided for or permitted under, the provisions of this title which is filed with the Secretary by, on behalf of, or with respect to any person, and any amendment or supplement thereto, including supporting schedules, attachments, or lists which are supplemental to, or part of, the return so filed. (2) **Return information** — The term “return information” means— (

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2 U.S.C. § 603 — Public access to budget data

**(a) Right to copy** Except as provided in subsections (c), (d), and (e), the Director shall make all information, data, estimates, and statistics obtained under section 601(d) and (e) of this title available for public copying during normal business hours, subject to reasonable rules and regulations, and shall to the extent practicable, at the request of any person, furnish a copy of any such information, data, estimates, or statistics upon payment by such person of the cost of making and furnishing such copy. **(b) Index** The Director shall develop and maintain filing, coding, and indexing systems that identify the information, data, estimates, and statistics to which subsection (a) applies and shall make such systems available for public use during normal business hours. **(c) Exceptions** Subsection (a) shall not apply to information, data, estimates, and statistics— (1) which are specifically exempted from disclosure by law; or (2) which the Director determines will disclose— (A) matters necessary to be kept secret in the interests of national defense or the confidential conduct of the foreign relations of the United States; (B) information relating to trade secrets or financial or commercial information pertaining specifically to a given person if the information has been obtained by the Government on a confidential basis, other than through an application by such person for a specific financial or other benefit, and is required to be kept secret in order to prevent undue injury to the competitive position of such person; or (C) personnel or medical data or similar data the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy; unless the portions containing such matters, information, or data have been excised. *

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6 U.S.C. § 101 — Cyber incident review

**(a) Activities** The Center shall— (1) receive, aggregate, analyze, and secure, using processes consistent with the processes developed pursuant to the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act of 2015 ([6 U.S.C. 1501](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title6-section1501&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.) reports from covered entities related to a covered cyber incident to assess the effectiveness of security controls, identify tactics, techniques, and procedures adversaries use to overcome those controls and other cybersecurity purposes, including to assess potential impact of cyber incidents on public health and safety and to enhance situational awareness of cyber threats across critical infrastructure sectors; (2) coordinate and share information with appropriate Federal departments and agencies to identify and track ransom payments, including those utilizing virtual currencies; (3) leverage information gathered about cyber incidents to— (A) enhance the quality and effectiveness of information sharing and coordination efforts with appropriate entities, including agencies, sector coordinating councils, Information Sharing and Analysis Organizations, State, local, Tribal, and territorial governments, technology providers, critical infrastructure owners and operators, cybersecurity and cyber incident response firms, and security researchers; and (B) provide appropriate entities, including sector coordinating councils, Information Sharing and Analysis Organizations, State, local, Tribal, and territorial governments, technology providers, cybersecurity and cyber incident response firms, and security researchers, with timely, actionable, and anonymized reports of cyber incident campaigns and trends, including, to the maximum extent practicable

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26 U.S.C. § 7423 — Repayments to officers or employees

The Secretary, subject to regulations prescribed by the Secretary, is authorized to repay— (1) **Collections recovered** — To any officer or employee of the United States the full amount of such sums of money as may be recovered against him in any court, for any internal revenue taxes collected by him, with the cost and expense of suit; also (2) **Damages and costs** — All damages and costs recovered against any officer or employee of the United States in any suit brought against him by reason of anything done in the due performance of his official duty under this title.

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5 U.S.C. § 1101 — Office of Personnel Management

The Office of Personnel Management is an independent establishment in the executive branch. The Office shall have an official seal, which shall be judicially noticed, and shall have its principal office in the District of Columbia, and may have field offices in other appropriate locations.

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44 U.S.C. § 3601 — Definitions

In this chapter, the definitions under section 3502 shall apply, and the term— (1) “Administrator” means the Administrator of the Office of Electronic Government established under section 3602; (2) “Council” means the Chief Information Officers Council established under section 3603; (3) “electronic Government” means the use by the Government of web-based Internet applications and other information technologies, combined with processes that implement these technologies, to— (A) enhance the access to and delivery of Government information and services to the public, other agencies, and other Government entities; or (B) bring about improvements in Government operations that may include effectiveness, efficiency, service quality, or transformation; (4) “enterprise architecture”— (A) means— (i) a strategic information asset base, which defines the mission; (ii) the information necessary to perform the mission; (iii) the technologies necessary to perform the mission; and (iv) the transitional processes for implementing new technologies in response to changing mission needs; and (B) includes— (i) a baseline architecture; (ii) a target architecture; and (iii) a sequencing plan; (5) “Fund” means the E-Government Fund established under section 3604; (6) “interoperability” means the ability of different operating and software systems, applications, and services to communicate and exchange data in an accurate, effective, and consistent manner; (7) “integrated service delivery” means the provision of Internet-based Federal Government information or services integrated according to function or topic rather than separated according to the boundaries of agency jurisdiction; and (8) “tribal government” means— (A) the governing b

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5 U.S.C. § 3111 — Acceptance of volunteer service

Page 341 TITLE 5—GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES § 3111 (ii) functions of the Director of the Office of Manage- ment and Budget relating to budget, administrative, or legislative proposals. (c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right, benefit, or privilege, substantive or proce- dural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, instrumentalities, or entities, its officers or employees, or any other person. GEORGE W. BUSH. § 3110. Employment of relatives; restrictions (a) For the purpose of this section— (1) ‘‘agency’’ means— (A) an Executive agency; (B) an office, agency, or other establish- ment in the legislative branch; (C) an office, agency, or other establish- ment in the judicial branch; and (D) the government of the District of Co- lumbia; (2) ‘‘public official’’ means an officer (includ- ing the President and a Member of Congress), a member of the uniformed service, an em- ployee and any other individual, in whom is vested the authority by law, rule, or regula- tion, or to whom the authority has been dele- gated, to appoint, employ, promote, or ad- vance individuals, or to recommend individ- uals for appointment, employment, pro- motion, or advancement in connection with employment in an agency; and (3) ‘‘relative’’ means, with respect to a pub- lic official, an individual who is related to the public official as father, mother, son, daugh- ter, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, first cousin, nephew, niece, husband, wife, father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, stepfather, step- mother, stepson, stepdaughter, stepbrother, stepsister, half brother, or half sister. (b) A public official may not appoint, employ

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