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[CITE: 10USC7211]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle C--Navy and Marine Corps
 
                     PART IV--GENERAL ADMINISTRATION
 
   CHAPTER 631--SECRETARY OF THE NAVY: MISCELLANEOUS POWERS AND DUTIES
 
Sec. 7211. Attendance at meetings of technical, professional, or 
        scientific organizations
        
    (a) The Secretary of the Navy may authorize--
        (1) members of the naval service on active duty;
        (2) civilian officers and employees of the Department of the 
    Navy;
        (3) members of the Coast Guard when it is operating as a service 
    in the Navy; and
        (4) members of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
    Administration serving with the Navy;

to attend meetings of technical, professional, scientific, and similar 
organizations, if the Secretary believes that their attendance will 
benefit the Department. The personnel may be reimbursed for their 
expenses at the rates prescribed by law.
    (b) The Secretary, to the extent he considers proper, may delegate 
the authority conferred by this section to any person in the Department 
of the Navy, with or without the authority to make successive 
redelegations.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 444; Pub. L. 89-718, Sec. 8(a), Nov. 
2, 1966, 80 Stat. 1117; Pub. L. 96-513, title V, Sec. 513(24), Dec. 12, 
1980, 94 Stat. 2932.)

                                          Historical and Revision Notes
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            Revised section                      Source (U.S. Code)            
   Source (Statutes at Large)
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7211..................................  5 U.S.C. 421c.                       Au
g. 2, 1946, ch. 756, Sec.  1, 60
                                                                              S
tat. 853.
                                        5 U.S.C. 421g(b), (c).               Au
g. 2, 1946, ch. 756, Sec.  40(b),
                                                                              (
c), 60 Stat. 858.
                                        5 U.S.C. 412a.                       Au
g. 2, 1946, ch. 756, Sec.  39, 60
                                                                              S
tat. 858.
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    In subsection (b) the words ``except the authority to prescribe 
regulations'' are omitted, since 5 U.S.C. 421c contains no authority for 
the Secretary of the Navy to prescribe regulations for the 
administration of that section.


                               Amendments

    1980--Subsec. (a)(4). Pub. L. 96-513 substituted ``National Oceanic 
and Atmospheric Administration'' for ``Environmental Science Services 
Administration''.
    1966--Subsec. (a)(4). Pub. L. 89-718 substituted ``Environmental 
Science Services Administration'' for ``Coast and Geodetic Survey''.


                    Effective Date of 1980 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 96-513 effective Dec. 12, 1980, see section 
701(b)(3) of Pub. L. 96-513, set out as a note under section 101 of this 
title.


                                 Repeals

    The directory language of, but not the amendment made by, Pub. L. 
89-718, Sec. 8(a), Nov. 2, 1966, 80 Stat. 1117, cited as a credit to 
this section, was repealed by Pub. L. 97-295, Sec. 6(b), Oct. 12, 1982, 
96 Stat. 1314.
