Title 42 — The Public Health and Welfare
Part A · Chapter 84 — Department of Energy
§ 7384e. Establishment of Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Fund
Statutory text
Establishment
There is hereby established on the books of the Treasury a fund to be known as the “Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Fund” (in this subchapter referred to as the “compensation fund”).
Amounts in compensation fund
The compensation fund shall consist of the following amounts:
Amounts appropriated to the compensation fund pursuant to the authorization of appropriations in section 7384g(b) of this title.
Amounts transferred to the compensation fund under subsection (c).
Financing of compensation fund
Upon the exhaustion of amounts in the compensation fund attributable to the authorization of appropriations in section 7384g(b) of this title, the Secretary of the Treasury shall transfer directly to the compensation fund from the General Fund of the Treasury, without further appropriation, such amounts as are further necessary to carry out the compensation program.
Use of compensation fund
Subject to subsection (e), amounts in the compensation fund shall be used to carry out the compensation program.
Administrative costs not paid from compensation fund
No cost incurred in carrying out the compensation program, or in administering the compensation fund, shall be paid from the compensation fund or set off against or otherwise deducted from any payment to any individual under the compensation program.
Investment of amounts in compensation fund
Amounts in the compensation fund shall be invested in accordance with section 9702 of title 31, and any interest on, and proceeds from, any such investment shall be credited to and become a part of the compensation fund.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 106–398 § 1(dC)(tXXXVI)(s3612) · 114 Stat. 1654
Enacted · 42 U.S.C. § 7384e
(Pub. L. 106–398, § 1 [div. C, title XXXVI, § 3612], Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A–497.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 106–398, § 1 [div. C, title XXXVI, § 3612], Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A–497.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
SECTION 1. ENACTMENT OF FISCAL YEAR 2001 NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT. The provisions of H.R. 5408 of the 106th Congress, as introduced on October 6, 2000, are hereby enacted into law.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Credits
(Pub. L. 106–398, § 1 [div. C, title XXXVI, § 3612], , 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A–497.)