Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Chapter 55 — National Environmental Policy
§ 4343. Employment of personnel, experts and consultants
Statutory text
The Council may employ such officers and employees as may be necessary to carry out its functions under this chapter. In addition, the Council may employ and fix the compensation of such experts and consultants as may be necessary for the carrying out of its functions under this chapter, in accordance with section 3109 of title 5 (but without regard to the last sentence thereof).
Notwithstanding section 1342 of title 31, the Council may accept and employ voluntary and uncompensated services in furtherance of the purposes of the Council.
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.
National Environmental Policy Act of 1969
Pub. L. 91–190 title II § 203 · 83 Stat. 852
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 4343
Pub. L. 91–190, title II, § 203, Jan. 1, 1970, 83 Stat. 855
Source evidence
Code source credit
Pub. L. 91–190, title II, § 203, Jan. 1, 1970, 83 Stat. 855Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 203. The Council may employ such officers and employees as may be necessary to carry out its functions under this Act. In addition, the Council may employ and fix the compensation of such experts and consultants as may be necessary for the carrying out of its functions under this Act,, in accordance with section 3109 of title 5, united States Code (but without regard to the last sentence thereof). 80 Stat. 416.Pub. L. 94–52 § 2 · 89 Stat. 258
Amended · 42 U.S.C. § 4343
Pub. L. 94–52 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a)
Added · 42 U.S.C. § 4343
Pub. L. 94–52 added subsec. (b)
Source evidence
Code amendment note
Pub. L. 94–52 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsec. (b).Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 2. Section 203 of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4343) is amended by inserting “(a)” immediately before “The Council” and by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: “(b) Notwithstanding section 3679(b) of the Revised Statutes (31 U.S.C. 665(b)), the Council may accept and employ voluntary and uncompensated services in furtherance of the purposes of the Council.”.
3 of 3 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Editorial Notes
References in Text
The last sentence of section 3109 of title 5, referred to in subsec. (a), probably means the last sentence of section 3109(b) of title 5, which was the last sentence of that section when the reference was enacted. Since then, section 3109 of title 5 has been amended to add subsecs. (c) to (e) at the end.
Codification
In subsec. (b), “section 1342 of title 31” substituted for “section 3679(b) of the Revised Statutes (31 U.S.C. 665(b))” on authority of Pub. L. 97–258, § 4(b), , 96 Stat. 1067, the first section of which enacted Title 31, Money and Finance.
Amendments
1975—Pub. L. 94–52 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a) and added subsec. (b).
Credits
1970–1975 · 2 acts
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(Pub. L. 91–190, title II, § 203, , 83 Stat. 855; Pub. L. 94–52, § 2, , 89 Stat. 258.)