[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 22, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 22CFR3.5]

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                       TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS
 
                     CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF STATE
 
PART 3--GIFTS AND DECORATIONS FROM FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 3.5  Designation of officials and offices responsible for administration of foreign gifts and decorations.

    (a) The Act effects a significant degree of decentralization of 
administration relative to the disposal of foreign gifts and decorations 
which become U.S. Government property. Each agency is now responsible 
for receiving from its employees deposits of foreign gifts of more than 
minimal value, as well as of foreign decorations not meeting the 
statutory criteria for retention by the recipient. The agency is also 
responsible for disposing of this property by return to the donor, for 
retaining it in the agency if official use of it is approved, for 
reporting to the General Services Administration within 30 calendar days 
after deposit items neither disposed of nor retained, and for assuming 
custody, proper care and handling of such property pending removal from 
that custody pursuant to disposal arrangements by the General Services 
Administration. The Secretary of State, however, is made responsible for 
providing guidance to other executive agencies in the development of 
their own regulations to implement the Act, as well as for the annual 
publication of lists of all gifts of more than minimal value deposited 
by Federal employees during the preceding year. [See Sec. 3.5(c).] 
Authority for the discharge of the Secretary's responsibilities is 
delegated by these regulations to the Chief of Protocol.
    (b) The Office of the Chief of Protocol retains primary 
responsibility for administration of the Act within the Department of 
State. That Office will, however, serve as the depository only for those 
foreign gifts and decorations

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which are turned in by State Department employees. The Director of 
Personnel Services of the USICA will have responsibility for 
administration of the Act within that agency and will serve as the 
depository of foreign gifts and decorations. Employees of the other 
foreign affairs agencies must deposit with their respective agencies any 
gifts or decorations deposit of which is required by law.
    (c) Any questions concerning the implementation of these regulations 
or interpretation of the law should be directed to the following:
    (1) For the Department of State, to the Office of Protocol or to the 
Office of the Assistant Legal Adviser for Management, as appropriate;
    (2) For IDCA, to the Office of the General Counsel;
    (3) For AID, to the Assistant General Counsel for Employee and 
Public Affairs; and
    (4) For USICA, to the General Counsel.