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[CITE: 16USC17j]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
   CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
 
                   SUBCHAPTER I--NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
 
Sec. 17j. Traveling expenses of National Park System employees 
        and dependents of deceased employees
        
    In the administration of the National Park System, the Secretary of 
the Interior is authorized, under regulations prescribed by him, to pay 
(a) the traveling expenses of employees, including the costs of packing, 
crating, and transporting (including draying) their personal property, 
upon permanent change of station of such employees and (b) the traveling 
expenses as aforesaid of dependents of deceased employees (i) to the 
nearest housing reasonably available and of a standard not less than 
that which is vacated, and to include compensation for not to exceed 
sixty days rental cost thereof, in the case of an employee who occupied 
Government housing and the death of such employee requires that housing 
to be promptly vacated, and (ii) to the nearest port of entry in the 
conterminous forty-eight States in the case of an employee whose last 
permanent station was outside the conterminous forty-eight States.

(May 26, 1930, ch. 324, Sec. 11, 46 Stat. 383; Pub. L. 91-383, Sec. 5, 
Aug. 18, 1970, as added Pub. L. 94-458, Sec. 2, Oct. 7, 1976, 90 Stat. 
1939.)


                               Amendments

    1976--Pub. L. 91-383, Sec. 5, as added by Pub. L. 94-458, included 
travel expenses for dependents of a deceased National Park System 
employee.

                          Transfer of Functions

    For transfer of functions of other officers, employees, and agencies 
of Department of the Interior, with certain exceptions, to Secretary of 
the Interior, with power to delegate, see Reorg. Plan No. 3 of 1950, 
Secs. 1, 2, eff. May 24, 1950, 15 F.R. 3174, 64 Stat. 1262, set out in 
the Appendix to Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.
