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[CITE: 42USC1962b-4]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                  CHAPTER 19B--WATER RESOURCES PLANNING
 
                 SUBCHAPTER II--RIVER BASIN COMMISSIONS
 
Sec. 1962b-4. Administrative provisions


(a) Hearings, proceedings, evidence, reports; office space; use of 
        mails; personnel, consultants, and professional service 
        contracts; personnel from other agencies; retirement and 
        employee benefit system for personnel without coverage; motor 
        vehicles; necessary expenses; other powers

    For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this subchapter, 
each river basin commission may--
        (1) hold such hearings, sit and act at such times and places, 
    take such testimony, receive such evidence, and print or otherwise 
    reproduce and distribute so much of its proceedings and reports 
    thereon as it may deem advisable;
        (2) acquire, furnish, and equip such office space as is 
    necessary;
        (3) use the United States mails in the same manner and upon the 
    same conditions as departments and agencies of the United States;
        (4) employ and compensate such personnel as it deems advisable, 
    including consultants, at rates not in excess of the daily 
    equivalent of the rate prescribed for grade GS-18 under section 5332 
    of title 5, and retain and compensate such professional or technical 
    service firms as it deems advisable on a contract basis;
        (5) arrange for the services of personnel from any State or the 
    United States, or any subdivision or agency thereof, or any 
    intergovernmental agency;
        (6) make arrangements, including contracts, with any 
    participating government, except the United States or the District 
    of Columbia, for inclusion in a suitable retirement and employee 
    benefit system of such of its personnel as may not be eligible for 
    or continuing in another governmental retirement or employee benefit 
    system, or otherwise provide for such coverage of its personnel;
        (7) purchase, hire, operate, and maintain passenger motor 
    vehicles; and
        (8) incur such necessary expenses and exercise such other powers 
    as are consistent with and reasonably required to perform its 
    functions under this chapter.

(b) Oaths

    The chairman of a river basin commission, or any member of such 
commission designated by the chairman thereof for the purpose, is 
authorized to administer oaths when it is determined by a majority of 
the commission that testimony shall be taken or evidence received under 
oath.

(c) Records; public inspection

    To the extent permitted by law, all appropriate records and papers 
of each river basin commission shall be made available for public 
inspection during ordinary office hours.

(d) Information and personnel from other Federal agencies

    Upon request of the chairman of any river basin commission, or any 
member or employee of such commission designated by the chairman thereof 
for the purpose, the head of any Federal department or agency is 
authorized (1) to furnish to such commission such information as may be 
necessary for carrying out its functions and as may be available to or 
procurable by such department or agency, and (2) to detail to temporary 
duty with such commission on a reimbursable basis such personnel within 
his administrative jurisdiction as it may need or believe to be useful 
for carrying out its functions, each such detail to be without loss of 
seniority, pay, or other employee status.

(e) Responsibility for personnel and funds

    The chairman of each river basin commission shall, with the 
concurrence of the vice chairman, appoint the personnel employed by such 
commission, and the chairman shall, in accordance with the general 
policies of such commission with respect to the work to be accomplished 
by it and the timing thereof, be responsible for (1) the supervision of 
personnel employed by such commission, (2) the assignment of duties and 
responsibilities among such personnel, and (3) the use and expenditure 
of funds available to such commission.

(Pub. L. 89-80, title II, Sec. 205, July 22, 1965, 79 Stat. 249; Pub. L. 
94-112, Sec. 1(c), Oct. 16, 1975, 89 Stat. 575.)


                               Amendments

    1975--Subsec. (a)(4). Pub. L. 94-112 substituted ``not in excess of 
the daily equivalent of the rate prescribed for grade GS-18 under 
section 5332 of title 5'' for ``not to exceed $100 per diem''.


         References in Other Laws to GS-16, 17, or 18 Pay Rates

    References in laws to the rates of pay for GS-16, 17, or 18, or to 
maximum rates of pay under the General Schedule, to be considered 
references to rates payable under specified sections of Title 5, 
Government Organization and Employees, see section 529 [title I, 
Sec. 101(c)(1)] of Pub. L. 101-509, set out in a note under section 5376 
of Title 5.
