special limitations

special limitations Sec. 404. (a) The Director shall prescribe regulations and shall carry out the provisions of this Act so as to assure that the service of volunteers assigned, referred, or serving pursuant to grants, contracts, or agreements made under this Act is limited to activities which would not otherwise be performed by employed workers and which will not supplant the hiring of or result in the displacement of employed workers, or impair existing contracts for service. (b) All support, including transportation provided to volunteers under this Act, shall be furnished at the lowest possible costs consistent with the effective operation of volunteer programs. (c) No agency or organization to which volunteers are assigned hereunder, or which operates or supervises any volunteer program hereunder, shall request or receive any compensation for services of volunteers supervised by such agency or organization. (d) No funds authorized to be appropriated herein shall be directly or indirectly utilized to finance labor or antilabor organization or related activity. (e) Persons serving as volunteers under this Act shall provide such information concerning their qualifications, including their ability to perform their assigned tasks, and their integrity, as the Director shall prescribe and shall be subject to such procedures for selection and approval as the Director determines are necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act. The Director may establish such special procedures for the recruitment, selection, training, and assignment of low-income residents of the area to be served by a program under this Act who wish to become volunteers as he determines will further the purposes of this Act. 87 Stat. 409 (f) Not withstanding any other provision of law and except as provided in the second sentence of this subsection, the Director shall assign or delegate any substantial responsibility for carrying out programs under this Act only to persons appointed or employed pursuant to clauses (1) and (2) of section 402, and persons assigned or delegated such substantial responsibilities on the effective date of this Act and who are receiving compensation in accordance with provisions of law other than the applicable provisions of title 5, United States Code, on such date shall, by operation of law on such date, be assigned a grade level pursuant to such Utter provisions so as to fix the compensation of such persons under such authority at no less than their compensation rate on the day preceding such date. The Director may personally make exceptions to the requirement set forth in the first sentence of this subsection for persons he finds will be assigned to carrying out functions under the Peace Corps Act (22 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.) within six months after the effective date of this Act. (g) Notwithstanding any other provision of law except as may be provided expressly in limitation of this subsection, payments to volunteers under this Act shall not in any way reduce or eliminate the. level of or eligibility for assistance or services any such volunteers may be receiving under any governmental program.