Sec. 10802. Details to United States Government agencies
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The head of any Federal agency is authorized to detail Federal employees of that agency (hereinafter known as the detailing agency ) to any office or position in any other Federal agency (hereinafter known as the receiving agency ), for the purposes set out in subsection (b). A detail under subsection
(a)is authorized for the purposes of— improving cooperation and collaboration between the detailing agency and receiving agency, rendering any technical, scientific, or professional advice or service to the receiving agency, or providing training and professional development to employees of the detailing agency, when such detail is consistent with and in furtherance of the purposes of this Act. The Secretary and the Administrator are each authorized to detail up to 5 employees of the Department of State and the United States Agency for International Development, respectively, each fiscal year to individual members and committees of Congress, notwithstanding the requirement for reimbursement in subsection (d). Such detailees shall be known as Congressional Fellows . The receiving agency shall reimburse the detailing agency for the salary and allowances of each Federal employee for the period of the detail, unless— the detail is for a period of less than two years; a substantially equivalent number of Federal employees are detailed to and from each agency in a fiscal year; or not more than 15 Federal employees are detailed from a single agency in a fiscal year. Personnel detailed under this section shall not be counted for purposes of any limitation established by the Office of Management and Budget on the maximum number of personnel allowable for the detailing agency. The Secretary and the Administrator are authorized to waive the requirement for reimbursement in subsection
(d)for the detail of an employee of the Department of State or the Agency, respectively, for a period of up to 5 years if the receiving agency is the National Security Council. In this section, the term detail means to detail, assign, or otherwise make available an employee to another agency, office, or organization.