Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 100 Part 1.djvu/607

 PUBLIC LAW 99-335—JUNE 6, 1986

100 STAT. 571

"(e)(1) Subject to paragraph (2), an administrative action or order affecting the rights or interests of an individual or of the United States under the provisions of this chapter administered by the Office may be appealed to the Merit Systems Protection Board under procedures prescribed by the Board. "(2) In the case of any individual found by the Office to be disabled in whole or in part on the basis of the individual's mental condition, and that finding was made pursuant to an application by an agency for purposes of disability retirement under section 8451, the procedures under section 7701 shall apply and the decision of the Board shall be subject to judicial review under section 7703. "(f) The Office shall fix the fees for examinations made under subchapter V of this chapter by physicians or surgeons who are not medical officers of the United States. The fees and reasonable traveling and other expenses incurred in connection with the examinations are paid from appropriations for the cost of administering the provisions of this chapter administered by the Office. "(g) The Office may prescribe regulations to carry out the provisions of this chapter administered by the Office. "(h)(1) Each Government agency shall furnish the Director with such information as the Director determines necessary in order to administer this chapter. "(2) The Director, in consultation with the officials from whom Regulations. such information is requested, shall establish (by regulation or otherwise) such safeguards as are necessary to ensure that information made available under this subsection is used only for the purpose authorized. "(i) In making a determination of 'actuarial equivalence' under this chapter, the economic assumptions used shall be the same as the economic assumptions most recently used by the Office (before the determination of actuarial equivalence involved) in determining the normal-cost percentage of the System. "(j)(l) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the Director of Central Intelligence shall, in a manner consistent with the administration of this chapter by the Office, and to the extent considered appropriate by the Director of Central Intelligence— "(A) determine entitlement to benefits under this chapter based on the service of employees of the Central Intelligence Agency; "(B) maintain records relating to the service of such Records. employees; "(C) compute benefits under this chapter based on the service of such employees; "(D) collect deposits to the Fund made by such employees, their spouses, their former spouses, and their survivors; "(E) authorize and direct disbursements from the Fund to the extent based on service of such employees; and "(F) perform such other functions under this chapter (other than under subchapters III and VII of this chapter) with respect to employees of the Central Intelligence Agency as the Director of Central Intelligence, in consultation with the Director of the Office of Personnel Management, determines to be appropriate. "(2) The Director of the Office of Personnel Management shall furnish such information and, on a reimbursable basis, such services to the Director of Central Intelligence as the Director of Central Intelligence requests to carry out paragraph (1).

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