---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 3672"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "3672"
heading: "Placement"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/3672"
units:
  - "Chapter 51 — Panama Canal"
  - "Subchapter I — Administration and Regulations"
  - "Part 2"
  - "Subpart iii — conditions of employment and placement"
---

# §3672. Placement

- (a) **Citizens separated from employment with Panama Canal Company or Canal Zone Government—** Any citizen of the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1)—
  - (1) who, on March 31, 1979, was an [employee](/usc/22/4341.md?p=1) of the Panama Canal Company or the Canal Zone Government;
  - (2) who separates or is scheduled to separate on or after such date for any reason other than misconduct or delinquency; and
  - (3) who is not placed in another appropriate position in the Government of the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) in the Republic of Panama;

  shall, upon the [employee](/usc/22/4341.md?p=1)’s request, be accorded appropriate assistance for placement in vacant positions in the Government of the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) in the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1).

- (b) **Citizens eliminated from employment with Executive agency or Canal Zone Government as a result of implementation of Panama Canal Treaty of 1977—** Any citizen of the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1)—
  - (1) who, on March 31, 1979, was employed in the Canal Zone as an [employee](/usc/22/4341.md?p=1) of an [Executive agency](/usc/22/3641.md?p=1) (other than the Panama Canal Company or the Canal Zone Government) or the Smithsonian Institution;
  - (2) whose position is eliminated as the result of the implementation of any provision of the Panama Canal Treaty of 1977 and related [agreements](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=7); and
  - (3) who is not appointed to another appropriate position in the Government of the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) in the Republic of Panama;

  shall, upon the [employee](/usc/22/4341.md?p=1)’s request, be accorded appropriate assistance for placement in vacant positions in the Government of the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1) in the [United States](/usc/22/1395.md?p=a-1).

- (c) **Establishment and administration of program by Office of Personnel Management—** The [Office](/usc/22/2214a.md?p=9) of Personnel Management shall establish and administer a Government-wide placement [program](/usc/22/3383.md?p=6) for all eligible [employees](/usc/22/4341.md?p=1) who request appointment to positions under this section.
- (d) **Effective date—** The provisions of this section shall take effect on September 27, 1979.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 96–70, title I, § 1232, Sept. 27, 1979, 93 Stat. 470.)