42 U.S.C. § 12619 — Administrative provisions

(a) Supervision. The Chief Executive Officer monitors and supervises the Corps Program set up under section 12612. The Chief Executive Officer must: (1) approve guidelines — including ones the Board recommends — for designing, selecting members for, and running the Corps; (2) evaluate the Corps' progress toward the goals in section 12611; and (3) carry out any other activities the Board decides are appropriate. (b) Monitoring and coordination. The Chief Executive Officer must: (1) monitor how the Corps operates overall; (2) coordinate Corps activities with the Corporation's other youth service programs; and (3) carry out any other activities the Board decides are appropriate. (c) Staff. (1) Director. (A) Once the Program starts, the Chief Executive Officer appoints a Director, who may be a retired commissioned officer of the Armed Forces. (B) The Director must design, develop, and run the Corps programs; manage its day-to-day operations; and report to the Chief Executive Officer. (C) The Director may hire staff needed to run this division, and should, as much as practical, use staff detailed from other federal agencies — requesting and accepting such detailed staff when appropriate. (2) Permanent cadre. (A) The Chief Executive Officer must set up a permanent cadre including the Director and other appointed supervisors and trainers. (B) The Chief Executive Officer considers the Director's recommendations when appointing other cadre members. (C) In choosing cadre members, the Chief Executive Officer must: (i) consider retired, discharged, and other former Armed Forces members recommended under section 12622(b); (ii) consider former VISTA, Peace Corps, and youth-service-program staff; (iii) make sure the cadre includes men and women from diverse ethnic, economic, professional, and geographic backgrounds; (iv) consider retired and former law enforcement, fire, rescue, and emergency personnel, and others experienced in disaster response; and (v) consider applicants' experience in other youth service programs. (D) Serving as cadre counts as community service for purposes of section 4403 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993. (E) The Director must give cadre members training in youth development — including working with disadvantaged youth — and in service-learning. All cadre members must take part in this training. (3) Some civil service laws don't apply. The Director, cadre, and other staff are appointed without following title 5's competitive-service appointment rules. Their pay can be set without following certain title 5 pay-scale rules. If a cadre member recommended under section 12622(b)(1) already gets retired or retainer military pay, that pay won't be reduced because they're also being paid as cadre. (4) Volunteers. No matter what other laws say, the Director may accept volunteer help. While away from home on Corps business, volunteers may get travel expenses, including a daily allowance, on the same terms as people the federal government hires intermittently, under section 5703 of title 5.