40 U.S.C. § 121 — Administrative

(a) Policies Prescribed by the President. The President may set whatever policies and directives are needed to carry out this subtitle (the federal property laws), as long as they don't conflict with it. (b) Accounting Principles and Standards. (1) The Comptroller General must set the accounting principles and standards agencies use for property, after considering what executive agencies need. (2) The Comptroller General must work with the Administrator of General Services and with executive agencies to build property accounting systems, and must approve those systems once they're adequate and follow the prescribed standards. (3) The Comptroller General must periodically check agencies' property accounting systems to see how well they comply with the standards, and must report to Congress any failure to comply or to properly account for property. (c) Regulations by the Administrator. (1) The Administrator of General Services may issue regulations to carry out this subtitle. (2) The Administrator must issue whatever regulations are needed for the Administrator's own functions, and each executive agency head must issue the orders and directives needed to carry out those regulations. (d) Delegation of Authority by the Administrator. (1) Except as limited by paragraph (2), the Administrator may delegate this subtitle's authority to a General Services Administration official or to the head of another federal agency, and may allow that authority to be passed down again further. (2) The Administrator may not delegate: the authority to write policy regulations that apply to executive agencies; the authority to transfer functions and their funding between components of the General Services Administration (described in subsection (e)); or any other authority this subtitle says can't be delegated. (3) If a department or agency is delegated authority to operate, maintain, or repair a building, it gets to keep the part of the rental payment the Administrator decides is available for that purpose, must spend that money directly on operating, maintaining, or repairing the building, and can keep using that money until it's spent. (e) Assignment of Functions by the Administrator. (1) The Administrator can carry out a function assigned under this subtitle in several ways: having the General Services Administration itself perform it; creating or naming a component of the Administration to perform it; transferring the function from one Administration component to another; directing an executive agency to perform the function for itself (with that agency's consent, or on the President's order); directing one executive agency to perform the function for another (with both agencies' consent, or on the President's order); or combining any of these approaches. (2) If the Administrator moves a function between components within the General Services Administration, the Administrator may also move the related funding, and must report that transfer to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget. If the Administrator moves a function between different executive agencies (including into or out of the Administration itself), the Administrator may also transfer the related staff, records, property, and funding — but that kind of transfer needs the OMB Director's approval. (f) Advisory Committees. The Administrator may create advisory committees to get advice on any of the Administrator's functions under this subtitle. Members serve without pay, but can get their transportation covered and up to $25 a day instead of other expense reimbursement under section 5703 of title 5. (g) Consultation With Federal Agencies. The Administrator must advise and consult with interested federal agencies, and ask for their advice and help, to carry out this subtitle's purposes. (h) Administering Oaths. When doing investigative work, a General Services Administration officer or employee — if the Administrator authorizes it — may administer an oath to a person.