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[CITE: 5USC5737]

 
             TITLE 5--GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
 
                           PART III--EMPLOYEES
 
                      Subpart D--Pay and Allowances
 
           CHAPTER 57--TRAVEL, TRANSPORTATION, AND SUBSISTENCE
 
   SUBCHAPTER II--TRAVEL AND TRANSPORTATION EXPENSES; NEW APPOINTEES, 
               STUDENT TRAINEES, AND TRANSFERRED EMPLOYEES
 
Sec. 5737. Relocation expenses of an employee who is performing 
        an extended assignment
        
    (a) Under regulations prescribed under section 5738 of this title, 
an agency may pay to or on behalf of an employee assigned from the 
employee's official station to a duty station for a period of not less 
than six months and not greater than 30 months, the following expenses 
in lieu of payment of expenses authorized under subchapter I of this 
chapter:
        (1) Travel expenses to and from the assignment location in 
    accordance with section 5724 of this title.
        (2) Transportation expenses of the immediate family and 
    household goods and personal effects to and from the assignment 
    location in accordance with section 5724 of this title.
        (3) A per diem allowance for en route travel of the employee's 
    immediate family to and from the assignment location in accordance 
    with section 5724a(a) of this title.
        (4) Travel and transportation expenses of the employee and 
    spouse to seek new residence quarters at the assignment location in 
    accordance with section 5724a(b) of this title.
        (5) Subsistence expenses of the employee and the employee's 
    immediate family while occupying temporary quarters upon 
    commencement and termination of the assignment in accordance with 
    section 5724a(c) of this title.
        (6) An amount, in accordance with section 5724a(f), to be used 
    by the employee for miscellaneous expenses of this title.\1\
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        (7) The expenses of transporting a privately owned motor vehicle 
    or vehicles to the assignment location in accordance with section 
    5727 of this title.
        (8) An allowance as authorized under section 5724b of this title 
    for Federal, State, and local income taxes incurred on reimbursement 
    of expenses paid under this section or on services provided in kind 
    under this section.
        (9) Expenses of nontemporary storage of household goods and 
    personal effects as defined in section 5726(a) of this title, 
    subject to the limitation that the weight of the household goods and 
    personal effects stored, together with the weight of property 
    transported under section 5724(a) of this title, may not exceed the 
    total maximum weight which could be transported in accordance with 
    section 5724(a) of this title.
        (10) Expenses of property management services.

    (b) An agency shall not make payment under this section to or on 
behalf of the employee for expenses incurred after termination of the 
temporary assignment.

(Added Pub. L. 104-201, div. A, title XVII, Sec. 1716, Sept. 23, 1996, 
110 Stat. 2756.)


                             Effective Date

    Section effective 180 days after Sept. 23, 1996, see section 1725(a) 
of Pub. L. 104-201, set out as an Effective Date of 1996 Amendment note 
under section 5722 of this title.
