---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 5737a"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "5737a"
heading: "Employees temporarily deployed in contingency operations"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/5737a"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart D — Pay and Allowances"
  - "Chapter 57 — Travel, Transportation, and Subsistence"
  - "Subchapter II — Travel and Transportation Expenses; New Appointees, Student Trainees, and Transferred Employees"
---

# §5737a. Employees temporarily deployed in contingency operations

- (a) **Definitions.—** For purposes of this section—
  - (1) the term “covered employee” means an individual who—
    - (A) is an [employee](/usc/5/5721.md?p=2) of an [Executive agency](/usc/5/3330d.md?p=a-2-A) or a military department, excluding a [Government](/usc/5/5721.md?p=4) controlled corporation; and
    - (B) is assigned on a [temporary change of station](#a-2) in support of a [contingency operation](#a-3);
  - (2) the term “temporary change of station”, as used with respect to an [employee](/usc/5/5721.md?p=2), means an assignment—
    - (A) from the [employee](/usc/5/5721.md?p=2)’s official duty station to a temporary duty station; and
    - (B) for which such [employee](/usc/5/5721.md?p=2) is eligible for expenses under [section 5737](/usc/5/5737.md); and
  - (3) the term “contingency operation” has the meaning given such term by [section 1482a(c) of title 10](/usc/10/1482a.md?p=c).
- (b) **Quarters and Rations.—** The head of an [agency](/usc/5/5721.md?p=1) may provide quarters and rations, without charge, to any [covered employee](#a-1) of such [agency](/usc/5/5721.md?p=1) during the period of such [employee](/usc/5/5721.md?p=2)’s temporary assignment (as described in [subsection (a)(1)(B)](#a-1-B)).
- (c) **Storage of Motor Vehicle.—** The head of an [agency](/usc/5/5721.md?p=1) may provide for the storage, without charge, or for the reimbursement of the cost of storage, of a motor vehicle that is owned or leased by a [covered employee](#a-1) of such [agency](/usc/5/5721.md?p=1) (or by a dependent of such an [employee](/usc/5/5721.md?p=2)) and that is for the personal use of the [covered employee](#a-1). This subsection shall apply—
  - (1) with respect to storage during the period of the [employee](/usc/5/5721.md?p=2)’s temporary assignment (as described in [subsection (a)(1)(B)](#a-1-B)); and
  - (2) in the case of a [covered employee](#a-1), with respect to not more than one motor vehicle as of any given time.
- (d) **Relationship to Other Benefits.—** Any benefits under this section shall be in addition to (and not in lieu of) any other benefits for which the [covered employee](#a-1) is otherwise eligible.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 110–181, div. A, title XI, § 1104(a), Jan. 28, 2008, 122 Stat. 346.)