22 U.S.C. § 2514 — Use of funds

(a) Administrative and other expenses. Money made available for this chapter may pay employees' compensation, allowances, and travel, including for Foreign Service employees whose work is mainly for this chapter. It may also pay for printing and binding without following other laws on those subjects. Outside the United States^*, it may pay for supplies, services, and other administrative and operating costs, except employee compensation, without following Government-fund obligation and spending laws and regulations when that is necessary to accomplish this chapter's purposes.

(b) Travel expenses abroad^*; transportation of personal effects, household goods and automobiles; storage. This money may pay employees' travel abroad and, when this chapter otherwise authorizes it, volunteers' travel, including dependents' travel and necessary stopover expenses. It may pay to transport personal effects, household goods, and automobiles when any part of the trip or transportation starts during a fiscal year under travel orders issued that year, even if the trip or transportation ends later. It may also pay to move employees' automobiles to and from storage and store them when the public interest or lower cost supports storage.

(c) Costs of training personnel employed or assigned overseas. Money under this chapter may pay to train employees employed or assigned under section 2506(a)(2), whether through an interchange or otherwise, at a State or local government unit, a public or private nonprofit institution, a trade, labor, agricultural, or scientific association or organization, or a business. Subchapter VI of title 5, chapter 33 may be used for this authority even if there is no personnel interchange and even if training is not at an institution listed in that subchapter. Payments or contributions related to the training may, as the authorizing agency head considers appropriate, be made by private or public sources and accepted by the trainee, or accepted by and credited to that agency's current appropriation. But a payment to an employee that is compensation replaces or reduces the compensation paid by the United States Government.

(d) Payment of expenses. Money under this chapter may pay—

(1) rent for buildings and space in the United States, and repairs, alterations, and improvements to leased property;
(2) attendance at meetings related to this chapter, including, despite 31 U.S.C. § 1346, meetings of people whose employment section 2512(a) authorizes;
(3) renting or hiring aircraft;
(4) buying or hiring passenger vehicles. Unless an appropriation or another Act says otherwise, vehicles for administrative use abroad may be bought only as replacements. They may be exchanged or sold and replaced by the same number of vehicles. Each replacement's cost, including the exchange allowance, may not exceed the applicable limit in section 2396(a)(5) for an automobile for a Peace Corps country representative appointed under section 2506(c). 31 U.S.C. § 1343 does not apply to buying vehicles used to transport, maintain, or directly support volunteers^* overseas. Vehicles for use in the United States may be bought only when an appropriation or another Act specifically provides for them;
(5) entertainment, up to $5,000 in a fiscal year unless an appropriation or another Act provides otherwise;
(6) exchanging currencies and losses from exchange;
(7) up to $20,000 in a fiscal year, unless an appropriation or another Act provides otherwise, for emergencies or contingencies in the Peace Corps that another law does not authorize. A certificate by the Peace Corps Director or the Director's designee stating only the amount and that the spending was needed for an unforeseen emergency or contingency is enough as a voucher;
(8) insurance for official motor vehicles acquired for use abroad;
(9) rent or leases abroad for up to five years for offices, health facilities, buildings, grounds, and living quarters, including advance payments; maintenance, furnishings, necessary repairs, improvements, and alterations for property owned or rented by the United States Government or made available for its use abroad; and fuel, water, and utility costs for that property;
(10) preparing and transporting to their former homes—and, for foreign participants in chapter activities, to their former homes or burial places—the remains of people or family members who die while away from home participating in chapter activities, and caring for and disposing of those remains;
(11) uses authorized by the Foreign Service Act of 1980 that are not otherwise provided for;
(12) ice and drinking water for use abroad; and
(13) transporting Peace Corps employees, volunteers, their dependents, and accompanying baggage by a foreign air carrier between two places outside the United States, without applying 49 U.S.C. § 40118.