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 104 STAT. 1478 PUBLIC LAW 101-509 —NOV. 5, 1990 5 USC note prec. 7901. Reports. Government employees. Wages. Repeal. Iraq. Kuwait. SEC. 628. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this or any other Act may be obligated or expended by any Federal department, agency, or other instrumentality for the salaries or expenses of any employee appointed to a position of a confidential or policy-determining character excepted from the competitive service pursuant to section 3302 of title 5, United States Code, without a certification to the Office of Personnel Management from the head of the Federal department, agency, or other instrumentality employing the Schedule C appointee that the Schedule C position was not created solely or primarily in order to detail the employee to the White House. (b) The provisions of this section shall not apply to Federal employees or members of the armed services detailed to or from— (1) the Central Intelligence Agency; (2) the National Security Agency; (3) the Defense Intelligence Agency; (4) the offices within the Department of Defense for the collection of specialized national foreign intelligence through reconnaissance programs; (5) the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the Department of State; (6) any agency, office, or unit of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration of the Department of Justice, the Department of the Treasury, and the Department of Energy performing intelligence functions; and (7) the Director of Central Intelligence. SEC. 629. (a) A Federal agency may participate in any program established by a State or local government that encourages employ- ees to use public transportation. Such programs may involve the sale of discounted transit passes or other incentives that reduce the cost to the employee of using public transportation. Qo) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 5536 of title 5, United States Code, or any other provision of law, an employee may participate in a program described under subsection (a). (c)(1) For purposes of this section the term "Federal agency" shall mean an Executive agency as defined under section 105 of title 5, United States Code, and shall include any agency of the legislative or judicial branch of Government. (2) For purposes of subsection (b), the term "employee" shall mean an employee as defined under section 2105 of title 5, United States Code, and shall include an employee of any legislative or judicial agency. (d) No later than June 30, 1993, the General Accounting Office shall conduct a study and submit a report on the implementation of programs under subsection (a) and the employees (including information of the employing agencies and rates of pay of such employees) who have participated in such programs. (e) The provisions of this section are repealed effective December 31, 1993. SEC. 630. (a) The Senate finds that— (1) democracy and freedom of the independent Arab nations have been threatened by the invasion and illegal annexation of Kuwait by the Government of the Republic of Iraq; (2) the safety of American citizens and those of other countries have been directly threatened by the decision of the Government of Iraq to move them and use them as "human shields" at strategic defense and industrial installations;

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