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B-201528 1 (1981-05-11)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadruc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: ~' ~ - / , <&TME CONIP TaPLLEA OENERAL OECI SIDN o.l T HES uaI TE r=0TATLE1 AV WASHI-NG-i N,4 D.C. 20546 P-201528 DATE: May U, 1981 MATTER OF: DIGEST: Student Volunteers - Traveling and Living Expenses P. In the absence of specific statutory authority, Federal agencies are prohibited from accepting voluntary service from individuals except in certain emergencies. Whenever an agency is authorized by statute to accept voluntary personal services as an excep- tion to that prohibition, the specific terms of the particular statutory authorization govern the conditions of the arrangement, including the scope of services which may be performed by the volunteers and the matter of whether the agency may pay for the volunteers' transportation, meals, and lodgings. 31 U.S.C. 665(b). 2. Section 301(a) of the Civil Service Peform Act of 1978, 5 U.S.C. 3111, authorizes a limited exception to the prohibition against the acceptance of voluntary ser- vice by Federal agencies, by allowing agencies to establish certain education programs for high school and college student volunteers. Sponsoring agencies may not pay for the student volunteers' traveling or living expenses, since the statute and its legislative history make no provision for payment of those expenses, and the statute specifically excludes the volunteers from being considered Federal employees for most purposes including travel and trans- portation entitlements. This action is in response to a letter dated December 9, 1980, from the Deputy Director of the Office of Personnel Management'(OPM), requesting a decision on the question of-- (W)hether the head of an agency who accepts voluntary services of students as authorized by section 3111(b) of title 5, United States Code, may provide travel and subsistence &D mp.Gen FILE: 287~

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