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[CITE: 22USC2514]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
                       CHAPTER 34--THE PEACE CORPS
 
Sec. 2514. Use of funds


(a) Administrative and other expenses

    Funds made available for the purposes of this chapter may be used 
for compensation, allowances and travel of employees, including members 
of the Foreign Service whose services are utilized primarily for the 
purposes of this chapter, for printing and binding without regard to the 
provisions of any other law, and for expenditures outside the United 
States for the procurement of supplies and services and for other 
administrative and operating purposes (other than compensation of 
employees) without regard to such laws and regulations governing the 
obligation and expenditure of Government funds as may be necessary to 
accomplish the purposes of this chapter.

(b) Travel expenses abroad; transportation of personal effects, 
        household goods and automobiles; storage

    Funds made available for the purposes of this chapter may be used to 
pay expenses in connection with travel abroad of employees and, to the 
extent otherwise authorized by this chapter, of volunteers, including 
travel expenses of dependents (including expenses during necessary 
stopovers while engaged in such travel), and transportation of personal 
effects, household goods, and automobiles when any part of such travel 
or transportation begins in one fiscal year pursuant to travel orders 
issued in that fiscal year, notwithstanding the fact that such travel or 
transportation may not be completed during the same fiscal year, and 
cost of transporting to and from a place of storage, and the cost of 
storing automobiles of employees when it is in the public interest or 
more economical to authorize storage.

(c) Costs of training personnel employed or assigned overseas

    Funds available under this chapter may be used to pay costs of 
training employees employed or assigned pursuant to section 2506(a)(2) 
of this title (through interchange or otherwise) at any State or local 
unit of government, public or private nonprofit institution, trade, 
labor, agricultural, or scientific association or organization, or 
commercial firm; and the provisions of subchapter VI of chapter 33 of 
title 5 may be used to carry out the foregoing authority notwithstanding 
that interchange of personnel may not be involved or that the training 
may not take place at the institutions specified in that Act.\1\ Any 
payments or contributions in connection therewith may, as deemed 
appropriate by the head of the agency of the United States Government 
authorizing such training, be made by private or public sources and be 
accepted by any trainee, or may be accepted by and credited to the 
current applicable appropriation of such agency: Provided, however, That 
any such payments to an employee in the nature of compensation shall be 
in lieu, or in reduction, of compensation received from the United 
States Government.
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    \1\ So in original. Probably should be ``that subchapter.''
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(d) Payment of expenses

    Funds available for the purposes of this chapter shall be available 
for--
        (1) rent of buildings and space in buildings in the United 
    States, and for repair, alteration, and improvement of such leased 
    properties;
        (2) expenses of attendance at meetings concerned with the 
    purposes of this chapter, including (notwithstanding the provisions 
    of section 1346 of title 31) expenses in connection with meetings of 
    persons whose employment is authorized by section 2512(a) of this 
    title;
        (3) rental and hire of aircraft;
        (4) purchase and hire of passenger motor vehicles: Provided, 
    That, except as may otherwise be provided in an appropriation or 
    other Act, passenger motor vehicles for administrative purposes 
    abroad may be purchased for replacement only, and such vehicles may 
    be exchanged or sold and replaced by an equal number of such 
    vehicles, and the cost, including exchange allowance, of each such 
    replacement shall not exceed the applicable cost limitation 
    described in section 2396(a)(5) of this title in the case of an 
    automobile for any Peace Corps country representative appointed 
    under section 2506(c) of this title: Provided further, That the 
    provisions of section 1343 of title 31 shall not apply to the 
    purchase of vehicles for the transportation, maintenance, or direct 
    support of volunteers overseas: Provided further, That passenger 
    motor vehicles may be purchased for use in the United States only as 
    may be specifically provided in an appropriation or other Act;
        (5) entertainment (not to exceed $5,000 in any fiscal year 
    except as may otherwise be provided in an appropriation or other 
    Act);
        (6) exchange of funds and loss by exchange;
        (7) expenditures (not to exceed $20,000 in any fiscal year 
    except as may be otherwise provided in an appropriation or other 
    Act) not otherwise authorized by law to meet unforeseen emergencies 
    or contingencies arising in the Peace Corps: Provided, That a 
    certificate of the amount only of each such expenditure and that 
    such expenditure was necessary to meet an unforeseen emergency or 
    contingency, made by the Director of the Peace Corps or his 
    designee, shall be deemed a sufficient voucher for the amount 
    therein specified;
        (8) insurance of official motor vehicles acquired for use 
    abroad;
        (9) rent or lease abroad for not to exceed five years of 
    offices, health facilities, buildings, grounds, and living quarters, 
    and payments therefor in advance; maintenance, furnishings, 
    necessary repairs, improvements, and alterations to properties owned 
    or rented by the United States Government or made available for its 
    use abroad; and costs of fuel, water, and utilities for such 
    properties;
        (10) expenses of preparing and transporting to their former 
    homes, or, with respect to foreign participants engaged in 
    activities under this chapter, to their former homes or places of 
    burial, and of care and disposition of, the remains of persons or 
    members of the families of persons who may die while such persons 
    are away from their homes participating in activities under this 
    chapter;
        (11) use in accordance with authorities of the Foreign Service 
    Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 3901 et seq.), not otherwise provided for;
        (12) ice and drinking water for use abroad; and
        (13) the transportation of Peace Corps employees, Peace Corps 
    volunteers, dependents of such employees and volunteers, and 
    accompanying baggage, by a foreign air carrier when the 
    transportation is between two places outside the United States 
    without regard to section 40118 of title 49.

(Pub. L. 87-293, title I, Sec. 15, Sept. 22, 1961, 75 Stat. 621; Pub. L. 
89-134, Sec. 7, Aug. 24, 1965, 79 Stat. 551; Pub. L. 89-572, Sec. 3, 
Sept. 13, 1966, 80 Stat. 765; Pub. L. 96-465, title II, Sec. 2202(e), 
Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2158; Pub. L. 96-533, title VI, Sec. 601(c), 
Dec. 16, 1980, 94 Stat. 3155; Pub. L. 100-202, Sec. 101(e) [title II, 
Sec. 201], Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1329-131, 1329-145; Pub. L. 106-30, 
Sec. 2(a), (b)(5)-(8), May 21, 1999, 113 Stat. 55, 56.)

                       References in Text

    This chapter, referred to in text, was in the original ``this Act'', 
meaning Pub. L. 87-293, Sept. 22, 1961, 75 Stat. 612, as amended, known 
as the Peace Corps Act. For complete classification of this Act to the 
Code, see Short Title note set out under section 2501 of this title and 
Tables.
    The Foreign Service Act of 1980, referred to in subsec. (d)(11), is 
Pub. L. 96-465, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2071, as amended, which is 
classified principally to chapter 52 (Sec. 3901 et seq.) of this title. 
For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title 
note set out under section 3901 of this title and Tables.


                               Amendments

    1999--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 106-30, Sec. 2(b)(5), substituted 
``subchapter VI of chapter 33 of title 5'' for ``sections 1881 to 1888 
of title 7''.
    Subsec. (d)(2). Pub. L. 106-30, Sec. 2(b)(6), substituted ``section 
1346 of title 31'' for ``section 9 of Public Law 60-328 (31 U.S.C. 
673)''.
    Subsec. (d)(6). Pub. L. 106-30, Sec. 2(b)(7), struck out ``without 
regard to section 3561 of the Revised Statutes (31 U.S.C. 543)'' after 
``exchange of funds''.
    Subsec. (d)(11). Pub. L. 106-30, Sec. 2(b)(8), substituted ``Foreign 
Service Act of 1980 (22 U.S.C. 3901 et seq.)'' for ``Foreign Service Act 
of 1946, as amended (22 U.S.C. 801 et seq.)''.
    Subsec. (d)(13). Pub. L. 106-30, Sec. 2(a), added par. (13).
    1987--Subsec. (d)(4). Pub. L. 100-202 substituted ``the applicable 
cost limitation described in section 2396(a)(5) of this title'' for 
``$2,500'' and inserted proviso that section 1343 of title 31 not apply 
to the purchase of vehicles for the transportation, maintenance, or 
direct support of volunteers overseas.
    1980--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 96-465 substituted ``members of the 
Foreign Service'' for ``Foreign Service personnel''.
    Subsec. (d)(7). Pub. L. 96-533 increased to $20,000 from $5,000 
fiscal year expenditures limitation.
    1966--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 89-572, Sec. 3(a), substituted 
``2506(a)(2)'' for ``2506(c)(2)''.
    Subsec. (d)(4). Pub. L. 89-572, Sec. 3(b), substituted ``2506(c)'' 
for ``2506(e)''.
    1965--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 89-134 struck out provision that training 
not be considered employment or holding of office under section 2 of the 
Act of July 31, 1894, as amended (5 U.S.C. 62).


                    Effective Date of 1980 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 96-465 effective Feb. 15, 1981, except as 
otherwise provided, see section 2403 of Pub. L. 96-465, set out as an 
Effective Date note under section 3901 of this title.
