An Act to provide for the rotation in oversea assignments of civilian employees under the Defense Establishment having career-conditional and career appointments in the competitive civil service, and for other purposes
PL 86-585 (H.R.10695), enacted 07/05/1960

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Public Law 86-585 
AN A C T 
J"iy 5, I960 
To provide for the rotation in overseas assignments of civilian employees under —LJ—! 
the Defense Establishment having career-conditional and career appointments 
in the competitive civil service, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That chapter 81 of pio/eesf ^^^ ^
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title 10 of the tjnited States Code is amended by adding at the end ^.^^^^"^^^ '•°*°-
thereof the following new section: 
lo u s c issi-
"§1586. Rotation of career-conditional and career employees assigned to duty 
outside the United States 
"(a) In order to advance the programs and activities of the De-
fense Establishment, it is hereby declared to be the policy of the 
Congress to facilitate the interchange of civilian employees of the 
Defense Establishment between posts of duty in the United States 
and posts of duty outside the United States through the establishment 
and operation of programs for the rotation, to the extent consistent 
with the missions of the Defense Establishment and sound principles 
of administration, of such employees who are assigned to duty out-
side the United States. 
"(b) Notwithstanding anj^ other provision of law, the Secretary 
of Defense with respect to civilian employees of the Department of 
Defense other than employees of a military department, and the 
Secretary of each military department with respect to civilian em-
ployees of such military department, may, under such regulations as 
each such Secretary may prescribe with respect to the employees con-
cerned and in accordance with the policy and other provisions of this 
section, establish and operate programs of rotation which j)rovide for 
the granting of the right to return to a position in the United States 
to each civilian employee in the department concerned— 
"(1) who, while serving under a career-conditional or career 
appointment in the competitive civil service, is assigned at the 
request of the department concerned to duty outside the United 
States, 
" ^2) who satisfactorily completes such duty, and 
"(3) who applies, not later than thirty days after his comple-
tion of such duty, for the right to return to a position in the 
United States as provided by subsection (c) of this section. 
The Secretary of the department concerned may provide by regulation 
for the waiver of the provisions of parag,raj)hs (2) and (3^ of this 
subsection, or of either of such paragraphs, in those cases m which 
the application of such paragraphs, or either of them, would be against 
equity and good conscience or against the public interest. 
"(c) The right to return to a position m the United States granted 
under this section shall be without reduction in the seniority, status, 
and tenure held by the employee immediately before his assignment 
to duty outside the United States and the employee shall be placed, 
not later than thirty days after the date on which he is determined 
to be immediately availaole to exercise such right, in accordance with 
the following provisions: 
"(1) The employee shall be placed in the position which he held 
immediately before his assignment to duty outside the United States, 
if such position exists. 
"(2) If such position does not exist, or with his consent, the 
employee shall be placed in a vacant existing position, or in a new 
continuing position, for which he is qualified, available for the pur-
poses of mis section in the department concerned, in the same geo-
graphical area as, with rights and benefits equal to the rights and 
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benefits of, and in a grade ecjual to the grade of, the position which 
he held immediately before his assignment to duty outside the United 
States. 
"(3) If the positions described in paragraph (1) and paragraph 
(2) of this subsection do not exist, the employee shall be placed in an 
additional position which shall be established by the department con-
cerned for a period not in excess of ninety days in order to carry out 
the purposes of this section. Such additional position shall be in the 
same geographical area as, with rights and benefits not less than the 
rights and benefits of, and in a grade not lower than the grade of, the 
position held by the employee immediately before his assignment to 
duty outside the United States. 
"(4) If, within ninety days after his placement in a position under 
paragraph (3) of this subsection, a vacant existing position or new 
continuing position, for which the employee is qualified, is available 
for the purposes of this section in the department concerned, in the 
same geographical area as, with rights and benefits equal to the rights 
and benefits of, and in a grade equal to the grade of, the position 
which he held immediately before his assignment to duty outside the 
United States, the employee shall be placed in such vacant existing 
position or new continuing position. 
" (5) If, within the ninety-day period referred to in paragraphs (3) 
and (4) of this subsection, the employee cannot be placed in a posi-
tion under such paragraph (4), he shall be reassigned or separated 
under the regulations prescribed by the United States Civil Service 
Commission to carry out section 12 of the Act of June 27, 1944 (5 
58 Stat. 390. 
U.S.C. 861). 
"(6) If there is a termination of or material change in the activity 
in which the former position of the employee (referred to in para-
graph (1) of this subsection) was located, he shall be placed, in the 
manner provided by paragraphs (2), (3), and (4), as applicable, 
of this subsection, m a position in the d.epartment concerned in a 
geographical area other than the geographical area in which such 
former position was located. 
"(d) Each employee who is placed in a position under paragraph 
(1), (2), (3), (4), or (6) of subsection (c) of this section shall l)e 
paid at a rate or basic compensation which is not less than the rate of 
basic compensation to which he would have been entitled if he had 
jiot been assigned to duty outside the United States. 
"(e) (1) Each employee who is displaced from a position by reason 
of the exercise of a return right under subsection (c) (1) of this sec-
tion shall be placed, as of the date of such displacement, without reduc-
tion in seniority, status, and tenure, in a vacant existing position or 
new continuing position, for which he is qualified, available in the 
department concerned, in the same geographical area as, with rights 
and benefits equal to the rights and benefits of, in a grade equal to 
the grade of, and at a rate of basic compensation not less than the 
last rate of basic compensation to which he was entitled while in, the 
position from which he is displaced. 
"(2) If the employee cannot ibe placed in a position under para-
graph (1) of this subsection, he shall be reassigned to a position other 
than the position from which he is displaced, or separated, under the 
regulations prescribed by the United States Civil Service Commis-
sion to carry out section 12 of the Act of June 27, 1944 (5 U.S.C. 
; 58 Stat. 390. 
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"(f) The President may, upon his determination that such action 
is necessary in the national interest, declare that, for such period as 
lie may specify, an assignment of an employee to duty in Alaska or 
Hawaii shall be held and considered, for the puinposes of this section, 
to be an assignment to duty outside the United States. 
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"(g) For the purposes of this section— 
"(1) 'rptation' means the assignment of civilian employees 
referred to in subsection (b) of this section to duty outside the 
United States and the return of such employees to duty within 
the United States; and 
"(2) 'grade' means, as applicable, a grade of the compensation 
schedule for the General Schedule of the Classification Act of 
1949, as amended, or a grade or level of the appropriate prevail-
ing rate schedule." 
SEC. 2. The analysis of chapter 81 of title 10 of the United States 
Code is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new item: 
"158S. Rotation of career-conditional and career employees assigned to duty 
outside the United States." 
Approved July 5, 1960. 
Public Law 86-586 
AN ACT 
To validate certain payments of additional pay for sea duty made to members and 
former members of the United States Coast Guard. 
Definitions. 
July 5, 1960 
[H. R. 9921] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That all payments 
Addfu^^Tt' a y 
of additional pay for sea duty made prior to June 30,1956, to enlisted for sea duty. 
members of the United States Coast Guard who served on Coast Guard 
vessels less than one hundred and twenty-five feet in length are hereby 
validated. 
Any such member or former member who has made repay-
ment to the United States of any amount so paid to him as additional 
pay for sea duty is entitled to have refunded to him the amount repaid. 
SEC. 2. The Comptroller General of the United States, or his 
designee, shall relieve authorized certifying officers of the United 
States Coast Guard from accountability or responsibility for any pay-
ments described in section 1 of this Act, and shall allow credits in the 
settlement of the accounts of those officers for payments which are 
found to be free from fraud and collusion. 
SEC. 3. Appropriations available to the United States Coast 
Guard for the pay and allowances of enlisted personnel are available 
for payments under this Act. 
Approved July 5, 1960. 
Public Law 86-587 
AN ACT 
To amend section 7 of the Administrative Expenses Act of 1946, as amended, to 
provide for the payment of travel and transportation cost for persons selected 
for appointment to certain positions in the United States, and for other 
purposes. 
July 5, I960 
[S. 3485] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Reptesentatives 
of the 
United States of Am^erica in Congress assembled, That subsections 
(b) to (d), inclusive, of section 7 of the Administrative Expenses Act 
of 1946 (60 Stat. 808, as amended, 5 U.S.C. 73b-3) are amended to read 
as follows: 
"(b) Appropriations for the departments shall be available in ac-
cordance with regulations prescribed by the President, for expenses of 
travel of persons appointed, and of student trainees when promoted 
upon completion of college work, to positions in the United States for 
which there is determined by the Civil Service Commission to be a 
manpower shortage, and for expenses of transportation of their im-
mediate families and their household goods and personal effects and 
for advances of funds to the extent authorized by section 1 (a) and 
(b) of this Act 
J from their places of actual residence at time of selec-
tion or promotion to their duty station. Travel and transportation 
F e d e r a l 
ap-
pointees. 
Travel costs.