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- § 7231. Officers and employees
- § 7232. Senior positions
- § 7233. Experts and consultants
- § 7234. Advisory committees
- § 7235. Armed services personnel
- § 7236. Transferred
- § 7237. Priority placement, job placement, retraining, and counseling programs for United States Department of Energy employees affected by reduction in force
- § 7238. Temporary appointments for scientific and technical experts in Department of Energy research and development programs
- § 7239. Transferred
In addition to those positions created by subchapter II of this chapter, there shall be within the Department fourteen additional officers in positions authorized by section 5316 of title 5 who shall be appointed by the Secretary and who shall perform such functions as the Secretary shall prescribe from time to time.
The Secretary may obtain services as authorized by section 3109 of title 5, at rates not to exceed the daily rate prescribed for grade GS–18 of the General Schedule under section 5332 of title 5 for persons in Government service employed intermittently.
The Secretary is authorized to establish in accordance with chapter 10 of title 5 such advisory committees as he may deem appropriate to assist in the performance of his functions. Members of such advisory committees, other than full-time employees of the Federal Government, while attending meetings of such committees or while otherwise serving at the request of the Secretary while serving away from their homes or regular places of business, may be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by section 5703 of title 5 for individuals in the Government serving without pay.