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PUBLIC LAW 90-83-SEPT. 11, 1967

within the continental United States. However, expenses under this paragraph may be allowed only for one round trip in connection with each change of station of the employee. "(3) Subsistence expenses of the employee and his immediate family for a period of 30 days while occupying temporary quarters when the new official station is located within the United States, its territories or possessions, the Commonwealth of Puerto Eico, or the Canal Zone. The period of residence in temporary quarters may be extended for an additional 30 days when the employee moves to or from Hawaii, Alaska, the territories or possessions, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or the Canal Zone. The regulations shall prescribe average daily rates for subsistence expenses per individual, not in excess of the maximum per diem rates prescribed by or under section 5702 of this title, for the location in which the temporary quarters are located. Ileimbursement for subsistence expenses actually incurred may not exceed these daily rates for the first 10 days of the period, two-thirds of the rates for the second 10 days, and one-half of the rates for the balance of the period, including the additional 30 days. "(4) Expenses of the sale of the residence (or the settlement of an unexpired lease) of the employee at the old station and purchase of a home at the new official station required to be paid by him when the old and new official stations are located within the United States, its territories or possessions, the Commonw^ealth of Puerto Rico, or the Canal Zone, However, reimbursement for brokerage fees on the sale of the residence and other expenses under this paragraph may not exceed those customarily charged in the locality where the residence is located, and reimbursement may not be made for losses on the sale of the residence. This paragraph applies regardless of whether title to the residence or the unexpired lease is in the name of the employee alone, in the joint names of the employee and a member of his immediate family, or in the name of a member of his immediate family alone. "(b) Under such regulations as the President may prescribe and to the extent considered necessary and appropriate, as provided therein, and notwithstanding other reimbursement authorized under this subchapter, an employee who is reimbursed under subsection (a) of this section or section 5724(a) of this title is entitled to— "(1) an amount not to exceed 2 weeks' basic pay, if he has an immediate family; or "(2) an amount not to exceed 1 week's basic pay, if he does not have an immediate family. However, the amounts may not exceed amounts determined from the maximum rate for GS-13. "(c) Under such regulations as the President may prescribe, a former employee separated by reason of reduction in force or transfer of function who within 1 year after the separation is reemployed by a nontemporary appointment at a different geographical location from that where the separation occurred may be allowed and paid the expenses authorized by sections 5724, 5725, 5726(b), and 5727 of this title, and may receive the benefits authorized by subsections (a) and (b) of this section, in the same manner as though he had been transferred in the interest of the Government without a break in service to the location of reemployment from the location where separated." (B) The analysis of chapter 57 is amended by inserting the following new item after item 5724: "5724a. Relocation expenses of employees transferred or reemployed."

(38) Section 5726 is amended— (A) by amending subsection (a) by striking out "this section" and inserting "subsection (b) of this section" in place thereof;

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