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[CITE: 5USC5706a]

 
             TITLE 5--GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
 
                           PART III--EMPLOYEES
 
                      Subpart D--Pay and Allowances
 
           CHAPTER 57--TRAVEL, TRANSPORTATION, AND SUBSISTENCE
 
    SUBCHAPTER I--TRAVEL AND SUBSISTENCE EXPENSES; MILEAGE ALLOWANCES
 
Sec. 5706a. Subsistence and travel expenses for threatened law 
        enforcement personnel
        
    (a) Under regulations prescribed pursuant to section 5707 of this 
title, when the life of an employee who serves in a law enforcement, 
investigative, or similar capacity, or members of such employee's 
immediate family, is threatened as a result of the employee's assigned 
duties, the head of the agency concerned may approve appropriate 
subsistence payments for the employee or members of the employee's 
family (or both) while occupying temporary living accommodations at or 
away from the employee's designated post of duty.
    (b) When a situation described in subsection (a) of this section 
requires the employee or members of the employee's family (or both) to 
be temporarily relocated away from the employee's designated post of 
duty, the head of the agency concerned may approve transportation 
expenses to and from such alternate location.

(Added Pub. L. 99-234, title I, Sec. 103(a), Jan. 2, 1986, 99 Stat. 
1757.)


                             Effective Date

    Section effective (1) on effective date of regulations to be 
promulgated not later than 150 days after Jan. 2, 1986, or (2) 180 days 
after Jan. 2, 1986, whichever occurs first, see section 301(a) of Pub. 
L. 99-234, set out as an Effective Date of 1986 Amendment note under 
section 5701 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 5707 of this title; title 7 
sections 3128, 5843; title 16 sections 971a, 971b, 2443, 3608, 3641, 
5608, 5709; title 22 section 1474; title 24 section 415.
