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 97 STAT. 720 PUBLIC LAW 98-101—SEPT. 29, 1983 Vacancy. Pay rate. 5 USC 5101 et seq. 5 USC 5331. eompensation and reimbursement. Detailed Federal agency personnel. among individuals who have demonstrated scholarship, a strong sense of public service, expertise in the learned professions, and abilities likely to contribute to the fulfillment of the duties of the Commission. (c) Members of the Commission shall be appointed for the life of the Commission. (d) One of the members shall be designated as Chairman by, and shall serve in the position of Chairman at the pleasure of, the President. (e) Twelve members of the Commission shall constitute a quorum, but a lesser number may conduct meetings. (f) A vacancy in the Commission resulting from the death or resignation of a member shall not affect its powers, and shall be filled in the same manner in which the original appointment was made. ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS AND POWERS SEC. 5. (a) The Commission shall appoint a staff director who shall be paid at a rate not to exceed the rate of basic pay provided for level I of the Executive Schedule pursuant to section 5312 of title 5, United States Code. (b) The Commission is authorized to appoint and fix the compensa- tion, without regard to the provisions of title 5, United States Code, governing appointments in the competitive service, and without regard to chaper 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of such title relating to classification and General Schedule pay rates, of such additional publicly paid personnel up to five persons, as the Chair- man finds necessary to carry out the purposes of this title. Such personnel shall be compensated at a rate not to exceed a rate equal to the maximum rate of pay for GS-18 of the General Schedule under section 5382 of title 5, United States Code. (c) Subject to the provisions of this subsection, the Commission may appoint and fix the pay of such additional personnel to be paid out of private donations. An individual appointed to a position funded in such manner shall be so designated at the time of such individual's appointment. The Chairman may appoint such addi- tional personnel as he deems appropriate, not to exceed forty staff members. (d) Each member of the Commission shall serve without being compensated as a member of such Commission, except that each member shall be reimbursed for travel, subsistence, and other neces- sary expenses incurred by them in the performance of their duties. (e)(l) Upon request of the Commission, the head of any Federal agency may detail any of the personnel of such agency to the Commission to assist the Commission in carrsang out its duties under this Act. Details under this subsection shall be without reimbursement by the Commission to the agency from which the employee concerned was detailed. (2) The Commission may accept the services of not to exceed twenty employees under this subsection at any time. (f) The Commission is authorized to procure supplies, services, and property, and make contracts, in any fiscal year, only to such extent or in such amounts as are provided in appropriation Acts or are donated pursuant to subsection (h) of this section. (g) The Commission is authorized to enter into agreements with -the General Services Administration for procurement of necessary financial and administrative services, for which payment shall be

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