50 USC § 3616 - Transportation of remains of certain employees

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identifier: "/us/usc/t50/s3616"
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title: "50 USC § 3616 - Transportation of remains of certain employees"
title_number: 50
title_name: "WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE"
section_number: "3616"
section_name: "Transportation of remains of certain employees"
chapter_number: 47
chapter_name: "NATIONAL SECURITY AGENCY"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-21"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 86–36, § 18, formerly § 17, as added Pub. L. 102–183, title IV, § 405, Dec. 4, 1991, 105 Stat. 1267; renumbered § 18, Pub. L. 102–496, title III, § 304(a), Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 3183.)"
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# § 3616. Transportation of remains of certain employees

**(a)** The Secretary of Defense may pay the expenses referred to in section 5742(b) of title 5 in the case of any employee of the National Security Agency who dies while on a rotational tour of duty within the United States or while in transit to or from such tour of duty.

**(b)** For the purposes of this section, the term “rotational tour of duty”, with respect to an employee, means a permanent change of station involving the transfer of the employee from the National Security Agency headquarters to another post of duty for a fixed period established by regulation to be followed at the end of such period by a permanent change of station involving a transfer of the employee back to such headquarters.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 86–36, § 18, formerly § 17, as added Pub. L. 102–183, title IV, § 405, Dec. 4, 1991, 105 Stat. 1267; renumbered § 18, Pub. L. 102–496, title III, § 304(a), Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 3183.)

## Editorial Notes

### Codification

Section was formerly classified in a note under  prior to editorial reclassification as this section.