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Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare

Chapter 108 — Nuclear Waste Policy

§ 10266. Staff

Statutory text

(a)

Clerical staff

(1)

Subject to paragraph (2), the Chairman may appoint and fix the compensation of such clerical staff as may be necessary to discharge the responsibilities of the Board.

(2)

Clerical staff shall be appointed subject to the provisions of title 5 governing appointments in the competitive service, and shall be paid in accordance with the provisions of chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of such title relating to classification and General Schedule pay rates.

(b)

Professional staff

(1)

Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), the Chairman may appoint and fix the compensation of such professional staff as may be necessary to discharge the responsibilities of the Board.

(2)

Not more than 10 professional staff members may be appointed under this subsection.

(3)

Professional staff members may be appointed without regard to the provisions of title 5 governing appointments in the competitive service, and may be paid without regard to the provisions of chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of such title relating to classification and General Schedule pay rates, except that no individual so appointed may receive pay in excess of the annual rate of basic pay payable for GS–18 of the General Schedule.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982

    Pub. L. 97–425 title V § 506 · 96 Stat. 2201

    Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 10266

    Pub. L. 97–425, title V, § 506, as added Pub. L. 100–202, § 101(d) [title III], Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1329–104, 1329–121

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Pub. L. 97–425, title V, § 506, as added Pub. L. 100–202, § 101(d) [title III], Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1329–104, 1329–121

0 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

Codification

Pub. L. 100–202 and Pub. L. 100–203 added identical sections.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

References in Other Laws to GS–16, 17, or 18 Pay Rates

References in laws to the rates of pay for GS–16, 17, or 18, or to maximum rates of pay under the General Schedule, to be considered references to rates payable under specified sections of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, see section 529 [title I, § 101(c)(1)] of Pub. L. 101–509, set out in a note under section 5376 of Title 5.

Credits

1987 · 2 acts
  1. 1987Pub. L. 97–425, title V, § 506, as added Pub. L. 100–202, § 101(d) [title III], , 101 Stat. 1329–104, 1329–121
  2. 1987Pub. L. 100–203, title V, § 5051, , 101 Stat. 1330–249.
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(Pub. L. 97–425, title V, § 506, as added Pub. L. 100–202, § 101(d) [title III], , 101 Stat. 1329–104, 1329–121; Pub. L. 100–203, title V, § 5051, , 101 Stat. 1330–249.)

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