Volume 79 · 124
Public Law 89–34
To validate certain payments made to employees of the Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture.
Approved June 5, 1965
Statutory text
AN ACT
To validate certain payments made to employees of the Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That overpayments made by the Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture, during the forest fire seasons, 1961, 1962, and 1963 to employee-members of southwestern firefighter crews from New Mexico and Arizona, whose services were used in fighting forest fires in Idaho, Nevada, California, Colorado, and Wyoming, and payments for traveltime in excess of eight hours a day and for traveltime prior to actual start of travel, are hereby validated.
Sec. 2.
The Comptroller General of the United States, or his designee, shall relieve authorized certifying and disbursing officers of the Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture, from accountability or responsibility for any payments described in section 1 of this Act, and shall allow credits in the settlement of the accounts of those officers for payments which are found to be free from fraud and collusion.
Approved June 5, 1965.