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41 U.S.C. § 8502 — Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled

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41 U.S.C. § 8502 — Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled

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**(a) Establishment.—** There is a Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled. **(b) Composition.—** The Committee consists of 15 members appointed by the President as follows: (1) One officer or employee from each of the following, nominated by the head of the department or agency: (A) The Department of Agriculture. (B) The Department of Defense. (C) The Department of the Army. (D) The Department of the Navy. (E) The Department of the Air Force. (F) The Department of Education. (G) The Department of Commerce. (H) The Department of Veterans Affairs. (I) The Department of Justice. (J) The Department of Labor. (K) The General Services Administration. (2) One member from individuals who are not officers or employees of the Federal Government and who are conversant with the problems incident to the employment of the blind. (3) One member from individuals who are not officers or employees of the Federal Government and who are conversant with the problems incident to the employment of other severely disabled individuals. (4) One member from individuals who are not officers or employees of the Federal Government and who represent blind individuals employed in qualified nonprofit agencies for the blind. (5) One member from individuals who are not officers or employees of the Federal Government and who represent severely disabled individuals (other than blind individuals) employed in qualified nonprofit agencies for other severely disabled individuals. **(c) Terms of Office.—** Members appointed under paragraph (2), (3), (4), or (5) of subsection (b) shall be appointed for terms of 5 years and may be reappointed if the member meets the qualifications prescribed by those paragraphs. **(d) Chairman.—** The members of the Committee shall elect one of the members to be Chairman. **(e) Vacancy.—** (1) **Manner in which filled.—** — A vacancy in the membership of the Committee shall be filled in the manner in which the original appointment was made. (2) **Unfulfilled term.—** — A member appointed under paragraph (2), (3), (4), or (5) of subsection (b) to fill a vacancy occurring prior to the expiration of the term for which the predecessor was appointed shall be appointed only for the remainder of the term. The member may serve after the expiration of a term until a successor takes office. **(f) Pay and Travel Expenses.—** (1) **Amount to which members are entitled.—** — Except as provided in paragraph (2), members of the Committee are entitled to receive the daily equivalent of the maximum annual rate of basic pay payable for level IV of the Executive Schedule for each day (including travel-time) during which they perform services for the Committee. A member is entitled to travel expenses, including a per diem allowance instead of subsistence, as provided under [section 5703 of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5703&num=0&edition=prelim). (2) **Officers or employees of the federal government.—** — Members who are officers or employees of the Federal Government may not receive additional pay because of their service on the Committee. **(g) Staff.—** (1) **Appointment and compensation.—** — Subject to rules the Committee may adopt and to chapters 33 and 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of title 5, the Chairman may appoint and fix the pay of personnel the Committee determines are necessary to assist it in carrying out this chapter. (2) **Personnel from other entities.—** — On request of the Committee, the head of an entity of the Federal Government may detail, on a reimbursable basis, any personnel of the entity to the Committee to assist it in carrying out this chapter. **(h) Obtaining Official Information.—** The Committee may secure directly from an entity of the Federal Government information necessary to enable it to carry out this chapter. On request of the Chairman, the head of the entity shall furnish the information to the Committee. **(i) Administrative Support Services.—** The Administrator of General Services shall provide to the Committee, on a reimbursable basis, administrative support services the Committee requests. **(j) Annual Report.—** Not later than December 31 of each year, the Committee shall transmit to the President a report that includes the names of the Committee members serving in the prior fiscal year, the dates of Committee meetings in that year, a description of the activities of the Committee under this chapter in that year, and any recommendations for changes in this chapter which the Committee determines are necessary.

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31 U.S.C. § 1113 — Congressional information

**(a)** (1) When requested by a committee of Congress having jurisdiction over receipts or appropriations, the President shall provide the committee with assistance and information. (2) When requested by a committee of Congress, additional information related to the amount of an appropriation originally requested by an Office of Inspector General shall be submitted to the committee. **(b)** When requested by a committee of Congress, by the Comptroller General, or by the Director of the Congressional Budget Office, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, and the head of each executive agency shall— (1) provide information on the location and kind of available fiscal, budget, and program information; (2) to the extent practicable, prepare summary tables of that fiscal, budget, and program information and related information the committee, the Comptroller General, or the Director of the Congressional Budget Office considers necessary; and (3) provide a program evaluation carried out or commissioned by an executive agency. **(c)** In cooperation with the Director of the Congressional Budget Office, the Secretary, and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, the Comptroller General shall— (1) establish and maintain a current directory of sources of, and information systems for, fiscal, budget, and program information and a brief description of the contents of each source and system; (2) when requested, provide assistance to committees of Congress and members of Congress in obtaining information from the sources in the directory; and (3) when requested, provide assistance to committees and, to the extent practicable, to members of Congress in evaluating the information obtained from the sources in the directory

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5 U.S.C. § 5376 — Pay for certain senior-level positions

**(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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5 U.S.C. § 5703 — Per diem, travel, and transportation expenses; experts and consultants; individuals serving without pay

An employee serving intermittently in the Government service as an expert or consultant and paid on a daily when-actually-employed basis, or serving without pay or at $1 a year, may be allowed travel or transportation expenses, under this subchapter, while away from his home or regular place of business and at the place of employment or service.

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15 U.S.C. § 644 — Awards or contracts

**(a) Small business procurements** (1) **In general** — For purposes of this chapter, small business concerns shall receive any award or contract if such award or contract is, in the determination of the Administrator and the contracting agency, in the interest of— (A) maintaining or mobilizing the full productive capacity of the United States; (B) war or national defense programs; or (C) assuring that a fair proportion of the total purchases and contracts for goods and services of the Government in each industry category (as defined under paragraph (2)) are awarded to small business concerns. (2) **Industry category defined** (A) *In general* — In this subsection, the term “industry category” means a discrete group of similar goods and services, as determined by the Administrator in accordance with the North American Industry Classification System codes used to establish small business size standards, except that the Administrator shall limit an industry category to a greater extent than provided under the North American Industry Classification System codes if the Administrator receives evidence indicating that further segmentation of the industry category is warranted— (i) due to special capital equipment needs; (ii) due to special labor requirements; (iii) due to special geographic requirements, except as provided in subparagraph (B); (iv) due to unique Federal buying patterns or requirements; or (v) to recognize a new industry. (B) *Exception for geographic requirements* — The Administrator may not further segment an industry category based on geographic requirements unless— (i) the Government typically designates the geographic area where work for contracts for goods or services is to be performed; (ii) Governmen

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41 U.S.C. § 8501 — Definitions

In this chapter: (1) **Blind.—** — The term “blind” refers to an individual or class of individuals whose central visual acuity does not exceed 20/200 in the better eye with correcting lenses or whose visual acuity, if better than 20/200, is accompanied by a limit to the field of vision in the better eye to such a degree that its widest diameter subtends an angle of no greater than 20 degrees. (2) **Committee.—** — The term “Committee” means the Committee for Purchase From People Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled established under [section 8502 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title41-section8502&num=0&edition=prelim). (3) **Direct labor.—** — The term “direct labor”— (A) includes all work required for preparation, processing, and packing of a product, or work directly relating to the performance of a service; but (B) does not include supervision, administration, inspection, or shipping. (4) **Entity of the federal government and federal government.—** — The terms “entity of the Federal Government” and “Federal Government” include an entity of the legislative or judicial branch, a military department or executive agency (as defined in sections 102 and 105 of title 5, respectively), the United States Postal Service, and a nonappropriated fund instrumentality under the jurisdiction of the Armed Forces. (5) **Other severely disabled.—** — The term “other severely disabled” means an individual or class of individuals under a physical or mental disability, other than blindness, which (according to criteria established by the Committee after consultation with appropriate entities of the Federal Government and taking into account the views of non-Federal Government entities representing the disabled) constitutes a substant

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41 U.S.C. § 8502 — Committee for Purchase From People

Page 207 TITLE 41—PUBLIC CONTRACTS § 8502 individual or class of individuals under a phys- ical or mental disability, other than blindness, which (according to criteria established by the Committee after consultation with appro- priate entities of the Federal Government and taking into account the views of non-Federal Government entities representing the dis- abled) constitutes a substantial handicap to employment and is of a nature that prevents the individual from currently engaging in nor- mal competitive employment. (9) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ includes the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands. (Pub. L. 111–350, § 3, Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3833.) HISTORICAL AND REVISION NOTES Revised Section Source (U.S. Code) Source (Statutes at Large) 8501(1) ........ 41:48b(1). June 25, 1938, ch. 697, § 5, 52 Stat. 1196; Pub. L. 92–28, § 1, June 23, 1971, 85 Stat. 81; Pub. L. 93–358, § 1(3), July 25, 1974, 88 Stat. 393; Pub. L. 94–273, § 3(22), Apr. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 377. 8501(2) ........ 41:46(a) (words in parentheses be- fore par. (1)). June 25, 1938, ch. 697, § 1(a) (words in parentheses be- fore par. (1)), 52 Stat. 1196; Pub. L. 92–28, § 1, June 23, 1971, 85 Stat. 77. 8501(3) ........ 41:48b(5). 8501(4) ........ 41:48b(7). 8501(5) ........ 41:48b(2). 8501(6) ........ 41:48b(4). 8501(7) ........ 41:48b(3). 8501(8) ........ 41:48b(2). 8501(9) ........ 41:48b(8). In this chapter, the word ‘‘disabled’’ is substituted for ‘‘handicapped’’ for consistency with the name of the Committee. The word ‘‘product’’ is substituted for ‘‘commodity’’ to reflect the current usage of the items produced in the Committee’s program. In this section, the text of 41:48b(6) is omitted a

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