Compensation and expenses.

§ 254. Compensation and expenses. Members of the Council (other than members who are full-time officers or employees of the United States) shall, white serving on business of the Council, be entitled to receive a per diem allowance at rates not to exceed the daily equivalent of the rate authorized for grade (GS–18 of the General Schedule. Each member of the Council, while so serving away from his home or regular place of business, may be allowed actual travel expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence as authorized by section 5703 of title 5 of the United States Code for persons in the Government service employed intermittently.