22 U.S.C. § 6104 — Mansfield Fellows on detail from Government service

(a)(1) An agency head may detail an agency employee who received a Mansfield Fellowship to the Center for no more than 2 years. (2) Before receiving the fellowship, the fellow must agree in writing to remain with the agency for at least 2 years afterward unless involuntarily separated, and to repay the United States Information Agency’s additional fellowship expenses if voluntarily separated before that period ends. (3) Repayment cannot be required when the fellow moves to another United States Government agency unless the authorizing agency head notified the employee before the move that repayment would be required. (b) For preserving allowances, privileges, rights, seniority, and other benefits, the detailed fellow remains an employee of the sending agency and receives pay, allowances, and benefits from that agency’s funds. Paying those allowances and benefits is treated as complying with title 5, section 5536. (c) The Center need not reimburse the United States for a detail. (d) The Center may pay the fellow the allowances and benefits listed in section 6102(4)(B).