36 U.S.C. § 90104 — Officers and employees

(a) Appointment of Officers and Employees. The board of directors appoints, removes, and replaces the foundation's officers and employees. (b) Status and Compensation of Employees. (1) In general. The foundation's officers and employees: (A) are not federal government employees, except as this chapter otherwise provides; (B) are appointed and removed without following title 5's competitive-service appointment rules; and (C) can be paid without following chapter 51 and part of chapter 53 of title 5 (the general federal pay-scale rules). (2) Availability of federal employee rates for travel. When the General Services Administration sets travel rates for federal employees on official business, the foundation's officers and employees are treated as federal employees for those rates, while traveling to do their job under this chapter.