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[Laws in effect as of January 2, 2001]
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[CITE: 5USC5707a]

 
             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. 5707a. Adherence to fire safety guidelines in establishing 
        rates and discounts for lodging expenses
        
    (a)(1) For the purpose of making payments under this chapter for 
lodging expenses incurred in a State, each agency shall ensure that not 
less than 90 percent of the commercial-lodging room nights for employees 
of that agency for a fiscal year are booked in approved places of public 
accommodation.
    (2) Each agency shall establish explicit procedures to satisfy the 
percentage requirement of paragraph (1).
    (3) An agency shall be considered to be in compliance with the 
percentage requirement of paragraph (1) until September 30, 2002, and 
after that date if travel arrangements of the agency, whether made for 
civilian employees, members of the uniformed services, or foreign 
service personnel, are made through travel management processes designed 
to book commercial lodging in approved places of public accommodation, 
whenever available.
    (b) Studies or surveys conducted for the purposes of establishing 
per diem rates for lodging expenses under this chapter shall be limited 
to approved places of public accommodation. The provisions of this 
subsection shall not apply with respect to studies and surveys that are 
conducted in any jurisdiction that is not a State.
    (c) The Administrator of General Services may not include in any 
directory which lists lodging accommodations any hotel, motel, or other 
place of public accommodation that is not an approved place of public 
accommodation.
    (d) The Administrator of General Services shall include in each 
directory which lists lodging accommodations a description of the access 
and safety devices, including appropriate emergency alerting devices, 
which each listed place of public accommodation provides for guests who 
are hearing-impaired or visually or physically handicapped.
    (e) The Administrator of General Services may take any additional 
actions the Administrator determines appropriate to facilitate the 
ability of employees traveling on official business to stay at approved 
places of public accommodation.
    (f) For purposes of this section:
        (1) The term ``agency'' does not include the government of the 
    District of Columbia.
        (2) The term ``approved places of public accommodation'' means 
    hotels, motels, and other places of public accommodation that are 
    listed by the Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency as 
    meeting the requirements of the fire prevention and control 
    guidelines described in section 29 of the Federal Fire Prevention 
    and Control Act of 1974 (15 U.S.C. 2225).
        (3) The term ``State'' means any State, the District of 
    Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the 
    Northern Mariana Islands, the Trust Territory of the Pacific 
    Islands, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, or any other 
    territory or possession of the United States.

(Added Pub. L. 101-391, Sec. 4(a), Sept. 25, 1990, 104 Stat. 749; 
amended Pub. L. 105-85, div. A, title XI, Sec. 1107(a)-(c), Nov. 18, 
1997, 111 Stat. 1924, 1925.)


                               Amendments

    1997--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 105-85, Sec. 1107(a)(2), added subsec. 
(a). Former subsec. (a) redesignated (b).
    Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 105-85, Sec. 1107(c)(1), substituted ``approved 
places of public accommodation'' for ``places of public accommodation 
that meet the requirements of the fire prevention and control guidelines 
described in section 29 of the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act 
of 1974'' and struck out ``as defined in section 4 of the Federal Fire 
Prevention and Control Act of 1974'' after ``that is not a State''.
    Pub. L. 105-85, Sec. 1107(a)(1), redesignated subsec. (a) as (b). 
Former subsec. (b) redesignated (c).
    Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 105-85, Sec. 1107(c)(2), substituted ``is not 
an approved place of public accommodation'' for ``does not meet the 
requirements of the fire prevention and control guidelines described in 
section 29 of the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974''.
    Pub. L. 105-85, Sec. 1107(a)(1), redesignated subsec. (b) as (c). 
Former subsec. (c) redesignated (d).
    Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 105-85, Sec. 1107(a)(1), redesignated subsec. 
(c) as (d). Former subsec. (d) redesignated (e).
    Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 105-85, Sec. 1107(c)(3), substituted 
``facilitate the ability of'' for ``encourage'' and ``approved places of 
public accommodation'' for ``places of public accommodation that meet 
the requirements of the fire prevention and control guidelines described 
in section 29 of the Federal Fire Prevention and Control Act of 1974''.
    Pub. L. 105-85, Sec. 1107(a)(1), redesignated subsec. (d) as (e).
    Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 105-85, Sec. 1107(b), added subsec. (f).


                             Effective Date

    Section 4(c) of Pub. L. 101-391 provided that: ``The amendments made 
by this section [enacting this section] shall take effect 60 days after 
the date of the publication in the Federal Register [Nov. 24, 1992, 57 
F.R. 55314] of the master list of certified places of public 
accommodation maintained by the Director of the Federal Emergency 
Management Agency pursuant to section 28(b) of the Federal Fire 
Prevention and Control Act of 1974 [15 U.S.C. 2224(b)] (as added by 
section 3 of this Act).''


          Termination of Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands

    For termination of Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, see note 
set out preceding section 1681 of Title 48, Territories and Insular 
Possessions.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 16 sections 5608, 5709.
