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 100 STAT. 1494

5 USC 5101 et ^ ^^
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Contracts.

20 USC 1091 note.

PUBLIC LAW 99-498—OCT. 17, 1986

"(2) Members of the Advisory Committee who are not officers or full-time employees of the United States may each receive reimbursement for travel expenses incident to attending Advisory Committee meetings, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by section 5703 of title 5, United States Code, for persons in the Government service employed intermittently. "(h) PERSONNEL AND RESOURCES.—(1) The Advisory Committee may appoint such personnel as may be necessary by the Chairman without regard to the provisions of title 5, United States Code, governing appointments in the competitive service, and may be paid without regard to the provisions of chapter 51 and subtitle III of chapter 53 of such title relating to classification and General Schedule pay rates, but no individual so appointed shall be paid in excess of the rate authorized for GS-18 of the General Schedule. "(2) In carrying out its duties under the Act, the Advisory Committee shall consult with other Federal agencies, representatives of State and local governments, and private organizations to the extent feasible. "(3)(A) The Advisory Committee is authorized to secure directly from any executive department, bureau, agency, board, commission, office, independent establishment, or instrumentality information, suggestions, estimates, and statistics for the purpose of this section and each such department, bureau, agency, board, commission, office, independent establishment, or instrumentality is authorized and directed, to the extent permitted by law, to furnish such information, suggestions, estimates, and statistics directly to the Advisory Committee, upon request made by the Chairman. "(B) The Advisory Committee may enter into contracts for the acquisition of information, suggestions, estimates, and statistics for the purpose of this section. "(4) The Advisory Committee is authorized to obtain the services of experts and consultants in accordance with section 3109 of title 5, United States Code. "(5) The head of each Federal agency shall, to the extent not prohibited by law, cooperate with the Advisory Committee in carrying out this section. (6) The Advisory Committee is authorized to utilize, with their consent, the services, personnel, information, and facilities of other Federal, State, local, and private agencies with or without reimbursement. "(i) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.—An amount, not to exceed $500,000 in any fiscal year, shall be available from the amount appropriated for each such fiscal year from salaries and expenses of the Department for the costs of carrying out the provisions of this section.". (b) EFFECTIVE DATES.—(1) Sections 483(e) and 484(d) of the Act as amended by this section shall apply to student assistance awarded for periods of enrollment beginning on or after July 1, 1987. (2) The changes made in section 484(a)(l) of the Act shall apply to student gissistance awarded for periods of enrollment beginning on or after July 1, 1987. (3) Section 484(c) of the Act as amended by this section shall apply only to student assistance awarded for periods of enrollment beginning on or after July 1, 1987, to individuals who were not awarded such assistance for any preceding period of enrollment. (4) Sections 484(f), 485(b), and 487(a)(10) of the Act as amended by this section shall apply only to periods of enrollment beginning on or after July 1, 1987.

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