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title: "22 U.S.C. § 4082"
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# 22 U.S.C. § 4082 - Loan of household effects

## Text

The Secretary may, as a means of eliminating transportation costs, provide members of the Service with basic household furnishing and equipment for use on a loan basis in personally owned or leased residences.

(Pub. L. 96–465, title I, § 902, Oct. 17, 1980, 94 Stat. 2127.)