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[CITE: 5USC5739]

 
             TITLE 5--GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
 
                           PART III--EMPLOYEES
 
                      Subpart D--Pay and Allowances
 
           CHAPTER 57--TRAVEL, TRANSPORTATION, AND SUBSISTENCE
 
   SUBCHAPTER II--TRAVEL AND TRANSPORTATION EXPENSES; NEW APPOINTEES, 
               STUDENT TRAINEES, AND TRANSFERRED EMPLOYEES
 
Sec. 5739. Authority for relocation expenses test programs

    (a)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this subchapter, under 
a test program which the Administrator of General Services determines to 
be in the interest of the Government and approves, an agency may pay 
through the proper disbursing official for a period not to exceed 24 
months any necessary relocation expenses in lieu of any payment 
otherwise authorized or required under this subchapter. An agency shall 
include in any request to the Administrator for approval of such a test 
program an analysis of the expected costs and benefits and a set of 
criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of the program.
    (2) Any test program conducted under this section shall be designed 
to enhance cost savings or other efficiencies that accrue to the 
Government.
    (3) Nothing in this section is intended to limit the authority of 
any agency to conduct test programs.
    (b) The Administrator shall transmit a copy of any test program 
approved by the Administrator under this section to the appropriate 
committees of the Congress at least 30 days before the effective date of 
the program.
    (c) An agency authorized to conduct a test program under subsection 
(a) shall provide to the Administrator and the appropriate committees of 
the Congress a report on the results of the program no later than 3 
months after completion of the program.
    (d) No more than 10 test programs under this section may be 
conducted simultaneously.
    (e) The authority to conduct test programs under this section shall 
expire 7 years after the date of the enactment of the Travel and 
Transportation Reform Act of 1998.

(Added Pub. L. 105-264, Sec. 5(b), Oct. 19, 1998, 112 Stat. 2355.)

                       References in Text

    The date of the enactment of the Travel and Transportation Reform 
Act of 1998, referred to in subsec. (e), is the date of enactment of 
Pub. L. 105-264, which was approved Oct. 19, 1998.