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PUBLIC LAW 93-155-NOV. 16, 1973

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Schedule pay rates; but personnel so appointed may not receive compensation in excess of the rate authorized for GS-18 by section 5332 of s u c h title 5.

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(b) The Commission is authorized to procure the services of experts and consultants in accordance with section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, but at rates not to exceed the daily rate paid a person ^° s*^*- ^loe. occupying a position at GS-18. (c) The Commission is authorized to enter into contracts with public. contract authoragencies, private firms, institutions, and individuals for the conduct ^ ^* of research and surveys, the preparation of reports, and other activities necessary to the discharge of its duties. ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES

SEC. 706. The Administrator of the General Services Administration shall provide administrative services for the Commission on a reimbursable basis. REPORTS OF THE COMMISSION"

SEC. 707. (a) The Commission shall, from time to time, submit ^^^^°^^l Pre^«°-' interim reports to the Congress and to the President regarding its dent! ^" duties under this title, and shall include in any such reports its findings together with such recommendations for administrative or legislative action as the Commission considers advisable. (b) The Commission shall submit its final report to the Congress and to the President not more than twenty-four months after the appointment of the Commission. Such report shall include all interim reports and the final findings and recommendations of the Commission. (c) The Commission shall cease to exist sixty days after the sub- Termination mission of its final report. AUTHORIZATION FOR APPROPRIATIONS

SEC. 708. There are authorized to be appropriated to the Commission a sum not to exceed $2,500,000 to carry out the provisions of this title. TITLE VIII—GENERAL PROVISIONS SEC. 801. Subsection (a)(1) of section 401 of Public Law 89-367, F»nds, availapproved March 15, 1966 (80 Stat. 37), as amended, is hereby amended name^e^and''^*' to read as follows:

" (a)(1) Not to exceed $1,126,000,000 of the funds authorized for appropriation for the use of the Armed Forces of the United States under this or any other Act are authorized to be made available for their stated purposes to support: (A) Vietnamese and other free world forces in support of Vietnamese forces, (B) local forces in Laos; and for related costs, during the fiscal year 1974 on such terms and conditions as the Secretary of Defense may determine. None of the funds appropriated to or for the use of the Armed Forces of the United States may be used for the purpose of paying any overseas allowance, per diem allowance, or any other addition to the regular base pay of any person serving with the free world forces in South Vietnam if the amount of such payment would be greater than the amount of special pay authorized to be paid, for an equivalent period of service, to members of the Armed Forces of the United States (under section 310 of title 37, United States Code) serving in Vietnam or in any other hostile fire area, except for continuation of payments of such additions to regular base pay provided in agreements executed prior to July 1, 1970. Nothing in clause (A) of the first sentence of this paragraph shall be construed as authorizing the use of any such funds to support

Laotian forces.

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