---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 10267"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "10267"
heading: "Support services"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/10267"
units:
  - "Chapter 108 — Nuclear Waste Policy"
  - "Subchapter V — Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board"
---

# §10267. Support services

- (a) **General services—** To the extent permitted by law and requested by the [Chairman](/usc/42/10261.md?p=1), the [Administrator](/usc/42/10101.md?p=1) of General Services shall provide the [Board](/usc/42/10261.md?p=2) with necessary administrative services, facilities, and support on a reimbursable basis.
- (b) **Accounting, research, and technology assessment services—** The Comptroller General, the Librarian of Congress, and the [Director](/usc/42/11851.md?p=5) of the [Office](/usc/42/10101.md?p=17) of Technology Assessment shall, to the extent permitted by law and subject to the availability of funds, provide the [Board](/usc/42/10261.md?p=2) with such facilities, support, funds and services, including staff, as may be necessary for the effective performance of the functions of the [Board](/usc/42/10261.md?p=2).
- (c) **Additional support—** Upon the request of the [Chairman](/usc/42/10261.md?p=1), the [Board](/usc/42/10261.md?p=2) may secure directly from the head of any [department](/usc/42/10101.md?p=8) or [agency](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) of the United States information necessary to enable it to carry out this subchapter.
- (d) **Mails—** The [Board](/usc/42/10261.md?p=2) may use the United States mails in the same manner and under the same conditions as other [departments](/usc/42/10101.md?p=8) and [agencies](/usc/42/8262.md?p=1) of the United States.
- (e) **Experts and consultants—** Subject to such rules as may be prescribed by the [Board](/usc/42/10261.md?p=2), the [Chairman](/usc/42/10261.md?p=1) may procure temporary and intermittent services under [section 3109(b) of title 5](/usc/5/3109.md?p=b), but at rates for individuals not to exceed the daily equivalent of the maximum annual rate of basic pay payable for GS–18 of the General Schedule.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 97–425, title V, § 507, as added Pub. L. 100–202, § 101(d) [title III], Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1329–104, 1329–121; Pub. L. 100–203, title V, § 5051, Dec. 22, 1987, 101 Stat. 1330–250.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Pub. L. 100–202 and Pub. L. 100–203 added identical sections.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### References in Other Laws to GS–16, 17, or 18 Pay Rates

References in laws to the rates of pay for GS–16, 17, or 18, or to maximum rates of pay under the General Schedule, to be considered references to rates payable under specified sections of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, see section 529 [title I, § 101(c)(1)] of Pub. L. 101–509, set out in a note under section 5376 of Title 5.