33 USC 574a – Training funds
(a) In general
The Secretary may include individuals not employed by the Department of the Army in training classes and courses offered by the Corps of Engineers in any case in which the Secretary determines that it is in the best interest of the Federal Government to include those individuals as participants.
(b) Expenses
(1) In general
An individual not employed by the Department of the Army attending a training class or course described in subsection (a) shall pay the full cost of the training provided to the individual.
(2) Payments
Payments made by an individual for training received under paragraph (1), up to the actual cost of the training—
(A) may be retained by the Secretary;
(B) shall be credited to an appropriations account used for paying training costs; and
(C) shall be available for use by the Secretary, without further appropriation, for training purposes.
(3) Excess amounts
Any payments received under paragraph (2) that are in excess of the actual cost of training provided shall be credited as miscellaneous receipts to the Treasury of the United States.
Terms Used In 33 USC 574a
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- individual: shall include every infant member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development. See 1 USC 8