Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 100 Part 1.djvu/554

 100 STAT. 518

42 USC 401. 26 USC 3101 et seq-

PUBLIC LAW 99-335—JUNE 6, 1986 "(6) the term 'Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund' or 'Fund' means the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund under section 8348; "(7) the term 'court' means any court of any State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, or the Virgin Islands, and any Indian court; "(8) the term 'Director' means the Director of the Office of Personnel Management; "(9) the term 'dynamic assumptions' means economic assumptions that are used in determining actuarial costs and liabilities of a retirement system and in anticipating the effects of longterm future— "(A) investment yields; "(B) increases in rates of basic pay; and "(C) rates of price inflation; "(10) the term 'earnings', when used with respect to the Thrift Savings Fund, means the amount of the gain realized or yield received from the investment of sums in such Fund; "(11) the term 'employee' means— "(A) an individual referred to in subparagraph (A), (E), (F), (H), (I), or (J) of section 8331(1) of this title; and "(B) a Congressional employee as defined in section 2107 of this title, including a temporary Congressional employee and an employee of the Congressional Budget Office; any of whose civilian service after December 31, 1983, is employment for the purposes of title II of the Social Security Act and chapter 21 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, except that such term does not include— "(i) any individual referred to in— "(I) clause (i), (v), (vi), or (ix) of paragraph (1) of section 8331; "(II) clause (ii) of such paragraph (other than an employee of the United States Park Police, or the United States Secret Service, any of whose civilian service after December 31, 1983, is such employment); or "(III) the undesignated material after the last clause of such paragraph; or "(ii) any individual excluded under section 8402(c) of this title; "(12) the term 'former spouse' means a former spouse of an individual— "(A) if such individual performed at least 18 months of civilian service creditable under section 8411 as an employee or Member; and "(B) if the former spouse was married to such individual for at least 9 months; "(13) the term 'Executive Director' means the Executive Director appointed under section 8474(a); "(14) the term 'firefighter' means— "(A) an employee, the duties of whose position— "(i) are primarily to perform work directly connected with the control and extinguishment of fires; and "(ii) are sufficiently rigorous that employment opportunities are required to be limited to young and physically vigorous individuals, as determined by the

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