---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 410cc–36"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "410cc–36"
heading: "Staff of Commission"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/410cc-36"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter LIX–A — Lowell National Historical Park"
  - "Part C — Powers and Duties of Preservation Commission"
---

# §410cc–36. Staff of Commission

- (a) **Appointment and compensation of Director—** The [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) shall have a Director who shall be appointed by the [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) and who shall be paid at a rate not to exceed the rate of pay payable for grade GS–15 of the General Schedule.
- (b) **Appointment and compensation of additional personnel—** The [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) may appoint and fix the pay of such additional personnel as the [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) deems desirable.
- (c) **Applicability of civil service provisions to appointment and compensation of Director and staff—** The Director and staff of the [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) may be appointed without regard to the provisions of [title 5](/usc/5.md) governing appointments in the competitive service, and may be paid without regard to the provisions of [chapter 51](/usc/16/chch51.md), and subchapter III of [chapter 53](/usc/16/chch53.md) of such title relating to classification and General Schedule pay rates, except that no individual so appointed may receive pay in excess of the annual rate of basic pay payable for grade GS–15 of the General Schedule.
- (d) **Temporary or intermittent services; procurement and compensation—** Subject to such rules as may be adopted by the [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c), the [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) may procure temporary and intermittent services to the same extent as is authorized by [section 3109(b) of title 5](/usc/5/3109.md?p=b), but at rates determined by the [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) to be reasonable.
- (e) **Detail of personnel from other Federal agencies represented by members on Commission; reimbursement by Commission; administrative support services by Administrator of General Services Administration; reimbursement by Commission—**
  - (1) Upon request of the [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c), the head of any Federal agency represented by members on the [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) may detail, on a reimbursable basis, any of the personnel of such agency to the [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) to assist it in carrying out its duties under this subchapter.
  - (2) The [Administrator](/usc/16/450rr–1.md?p=a) of the General Services Administration shall provide to the [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) on a reimbursable basis such administrative support services as the [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) may request.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–290, title III, § 306, June 5, 1978, 92 Stat. 303.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

GS–15 of the General Schedule, referred to in subsecs. (a) and (c), is set out under section 5332 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.