---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 U.S.C. § 2229"
title: "7"
title_heading: "Agriculture"
number: "2229"
heading: "Travel and per diem expenses of temporary or seasonal employees"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/7/2229"
units:
  - "Chapter 55 — Department of Agriculture"
---

# §2229. Travel and per diem expenses of temporary or seasonal employees


Under such regulations as may be prescribed by the [Secretary](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-2) of Agriculture, funds available to the Department of Agriculture may be used for the payment of transportation expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence expenses, in accordance with subchapter I of [chapter 57](/usc/5/chptIII/sptD/ch57.md) of title 5, for travel between places of recruitment and duty, and while at places of duty, of [persons](/usc/7/499a.md?p=b-1) appointed for temporary or seasonal services in inspection, classing or grading agricultural commodities.


## Source credit

(Aug. 3, 1956, ch. 950, § 12, 70 Stat. 1034.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified to section 541e of Title 5 prior to the general revision and enactment of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, by Pub. L. 89–554, § 1, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 378.

“Subchapter I of chapter 57 of title 5” substituted in text for “the Travel Expense Act of 1949” on authority of Pub. L. 89–554, § 7(b), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 631, the first section of which enacted Title 5, Government Organization and Employees.