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22 U.S.C. § 2511 — Peace Corps National Advisory Council

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22 U.S.C. § 2511 — Peace Corps National Advisory Council

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**(a) Establishment** A Peace Corps National Advisory Council (hereinafter in this section referred to as the “Council”) shall be established in accordance with the provisions of this section. **(b) Functions** (1) The Council shall advise and consult with the President and the Director of the Peace Corps with regard to policies and programs designed to further the purposes of this chapter and shall, as the Council considers appropriate, periodically report to the Congress with regard to the Peace Corps. (2) Members of the Council shall (subject to subsection (d)(1)) conduct on-site inspections, and make examinations, of the activities of the Peace Corps in the United States and in other countries in order to— (A) evaluate the accomplishments of the Peace Corps; (B) assess the potential capabilities and the future role of the Peace Corps; (C) make recommendations to the President, the Director of the Peace Corps, and, as the Council considers appropriate, the Congress, for the purpose of guiding the future direction of the Peace Corps and of helping to ensure that the purposes and programs of the Peace Corps are carried out in ways that are economical, efficient, responsive to changing needs in developing countries and to changing relationships among people, and in accordance with law; and (D) make such other evaluations, assessments, and recommendations as the Council considers appropriate. (3) The Council may provide for public participation in its activities. **(c) Membership** (1) Persons appointed as members of the Council shall be broadly representative of the general public, including educational institutions, private volunteer agencies, private industry, farm organizations, labor unions, different regions of the United States, different educational, economic, racial, and national backgrounds and age groupings, and both sexes. (2) (A) The Council shall consist of fifteen voting members who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. At least seven of such members shall be former Peace Corps volunteers, and not more than eight of such members shall be members of the same political party. (B) The first appointments of members of the Council under this paragraph shall be made not more than sixty days after August 8, 1985, and, solely for purposes of determining the expiration of their terms, shall be deemed to take effect on the sixtieth day after August 8, 1985. (C) No member appointed under this paragraph may be an officer or employee of the United States Government. (D) Of the members initially appointed under this paragraph, eight shall be appointed to 1-year terms and seven shall be appointed to 2-year terms. Thereafter, all appointed members shall be appointed to 2-year terms. (E) A member of the Council appointed to fill a vacancy occurring before the expiration of the term for which the member’s predecessor was appointed shall be appointed only for the remainder of that term. (F) No member of the Council may serve for more than two consecutive 2-year terms. (G) Members of the Council shall serve at the pleasure of the President. (H) An appointed member of the Council may be removed by a vote of nine members for malfeasance in office, for persistent neglect of or inability to discharge duties, or for offenses involving moral turpitude, and for no other cause. (I) Within thirty days after any vacancy occurs in the office of an appointed member of the Council, the President shall nominate an individual to fill the vacancy. (3) In addition to the voting members of the Council, the Secretary of State and the Administrator of the Agency for International Development, or their designees, and the Director and Deputy Director of the Peace Corps, shall be non-voting members, ex officio, of the Council. **(d) Compensation** (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), a member of the Council who is not an officer or employee of the United States Government— (A) shall be paid compensation out of funds made available for the purposes of this chapter at the daily equivalent of the highest rate payable under [section 5332 of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5332&num=0&edition=prelim) for each day (including travel time) during which the member is engaged in the actual performance of duties as a Council member, and (B) while away from his or her home or regular place of business on necessary travel, as determined by the Director of the Peace Corps, in the actual performance of duties as a Council member, shall be paid per diem, travel, and transportation expenses in the same manner as is provided under subchapter I of chapter 57 of title 5. (2) A member of the Council may not be paid compensation under paragraph (1)(A) for more than twenty days in any calendar year. **(e) Quorum** A majority of the voting members of the Council shall constitute a quorum for the purposes of transacting any business. **(f) Financial interests of members** A member of the Council shall disclose to the Council the existence of any direct or indirect financial interest of that member in any particular matter before the Council and may not vote or otherwise participate as a Council member with respect to that particular matter. **(g) Chair and Vice Chair** At its first meeting and at its first regular meeting in each calendar year thereafter, the Council shall elect a Chair and Vice Chair from among its appointed members who are citizens of the United States. The Chair and Vice Chair may not both be members of the same political party. **(h) Meetings, bylaws, and regulations** (1) The Council shall hold a regular meeting during each calendar quarter and shall meet at the call of the President, the Director of the Peace Corps, the Council’s Chair, or one-fourth of its members. (2) The Council shall prescribe such bylaws and regulations as it considers necessary to carry out its functions. Such bylaws and regulations shall include procedures for fixing the time and place of meetings, giving or waiving of notice of meetings, and keeping of minutes of meetings. **(i) Reports to the President and the Director** Not later than January 1, 1988, and not later than January 1 of each second year thereafter, the Council shall submit to the President and the Director of the Peace Corps a report on its views on the programs and activities of the Peace Corps. Each report shall contain a summary of the advice and recommendations provided by the Council to the President and the Director during the period covered by the report and such recommendations (including recommendations for administrative or legislative action) as the Council considers appropriate to make to the Congress. Within ninety days after receiving each such report, the President shall submit to the Congress a copy of the report, together with any comments concerning the report that the President or the Director considers appropriate. **(j) Administrative assistance** The Director of the Peace Corps shall make available to the Council such personnel, administrative support services, and technical assistance as are necessary to carry out its functions effectively.

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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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22 U.S.C. § 2501 — Congressional declaration of purpose

**(a)** The Congress of the United States declares that it is the policy of the United States and the purpose of this chapter to promote world peace and friendship through a Peace Corps, which shall make available to interested countries and areas men and women of the United States qualified for service abroad and willing to serve, under conditions of hardship if necessary, to help the peoples of such countries and areas in meeting their needs for trained manpower, particularly in meeting the basic needs of those living in the poorest areas of such countries, and to help promote a better understanding of the American people on the part of the peoples served and a better understanding of other peoples on the part of the American people. **(b)** The Congress declares that it is the policy of the United States and a purpose of the Peace Corps to maintain, to the maximum extent appropriate and consistent with programmatic and fiscal considerations, a volunteer corps of at least 10,000 individuals.

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5 U.S.C. § 5332 — The General Schedule

**(a)** (1) The General Schedule, the symbol for which is “GS”, is the basic pay schedule for positions to which this subchapter applies. Each employee to whom this subchapter applies is entitled to basic pay in accordance with the General Schedule. (2) The General Schedule is a schedule of annual rates of basic pay, consisting of 15 grades, designated “GS–1” through “GS–15”, consecutively, with 10 rates of pay for each such grade. The rates of pay of the General Schedule are adjusted in accordance with section 5303. **(b)** When payment is made on the basis of an hourly, daily, weekly, or biweekly rate, the rate is computed from the appropriate annual rate of basic pay named by subsection (a) of this section in accordance with the rules prescribed by [section 5504(b) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5504/b&num=0&edition=prelim).

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22 U.S.C. § 2512 — Experts and consultants

**(a) Employment; compensation, travel expenses and per diem; renewal of contracts** Experts and consultants or organizations thereof may, as authorized by [section 3109 of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section3109&num=0&edition=prelim), be employed by the President for the performance of functions under this chapter, and individuals so employed may be compensated at rates not in excess of the per diem equivalent of the highest rate payable under [section 5332 of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5332&num=0&edition=prelim), and while away from their homes or regular places of business, they may be paid actual travel expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence and other expenses at the applicable rate prescribed in the Standardized Government Travel Regulations, as amended from time to time, while so employed: Provided, That contracts for such employment may be renewed annually. **(b) Exemption from restrictions upon receipt of retirement benefits** Service of an individual as a member of the Council authorized to be established by section 2511 11 See References in Text note below. of this title or as an expert or consultant under subsection (a) of this section shall not be considered as employment or holding of office or position bringing such individual within the provisions of sections 3323(b) and 8344 of title 5, [section 4064 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title22-section4064&num=0&edition=prelim), or any other law limiting the reemployment of retired officers or employees or governing the simultaneous receipt of compensation and retired pay or annuities.

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22 U.S.C. § 2651 — Establishment of Department

There shall be at the seat of government an executive department to be known as the “Department of State”, and a Secretary of State, who shall be the head thereof.

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22 U.S.C. § 2511 — Peace Corps National Advisory Council

Page 1012 TITLE 22—FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE § 2510 of the former Appendix to Title 50, War and National Defense, prior to its omission from the Code. CODIFICATION In subsec. (d), ‘‘sections 3101(a) and (c), 3104, 3106, 3301(b)(2), and 6101 of title 41’’ substituted for ‘‘section 3709 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended, section 302 of the Federal Property and Ad- ministrative Services Act of 1949,’’ on authority of Pub. L. 111–350, § 6(c), Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3854, which Act enacted Title 41, Public Contracts. AMENDMENTS 2018—Subsec. (k). Pub. L. 115–256 added subsec. (k). 2011—Subsec. (a)(5). Pub. L. 112–57 substituted ‘‘the purposes of any law administered by the Office of Per- sonnel Management (except that the President may de- termine the applicability to such individuals of provi- sions of the Foreign Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 3901 et seq.))’’ for ‘‘any purpose’’. 1999—Subsec. (a)(4). Pub. L. 106–30 substituted ‘‘sec- tion 1342 of title 31’’ for ‘‘31 U.S.C. 665(b)’’. 1994—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 103–236, § 602(a), which di- rected amendment of subsec. (c) by substituting ‘‘five years’’ for ‘‘thirty six months’’, was executed by mak- ing the substitution for ‘‘thirty-six months’’ to reflect the probable intent of Congress. Subsec. (j). Pub. L. 103–236, § 602(b), inserted before pe- riod at end of first sentence ‘‘, and to individuals em- ployed under personal services contracts to furnish medical services abroad pursuant to subsection (a)(5) of this section.’’ 1981—Subsecs. (i), (j). Pub. L. 97–113 added subsecs. (i) and (j). 1978—Subsec. (a)(2). Pub. L. 95–331, § 5(a)(1), struck out proviso limiting to no more than 125 Peace Corps vol- unteers or volunteer leaders the number assignable to the described or

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