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 100 STAT. 3286

PUBLIC LAW 99-576—OCT. 28, 1986

SEC. 502. COLLOCATION OF REGIONAL OFFICES AND MEDICAL CENTERS.

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(a) IN GENERAL.—(1) Not later than March 1, 1987, the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs shall submit to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs of the Senate and House of Representatives a plan, including a schedule, for collocating at least seven regional offices of the Veterans' Administration described in paragraph (3) with Veterans' Administration medical centers on the grounds of such medical centers. The plan and schedule shall provide for the collocations to be commenced and completed as soon as practicable. (2) The plan required by paragraph (1) shall include— (A) an analysis of the estimated costs and savings which would result from the collocations; (B) the advantages and costs of furnishing personnel, supply, administration, and finance services and other supporting services jointly to regional offices of the Veterans' Administration and Veterans' Administration medical centers; and (C) any other advantages and any disadvantages of such collocations relating to costs and the provision of benefits and services to veterans. (3) The regional offices referred to in paragraphs (1) and (2) are regional offices of the Veterans' Administration which are not located at Veterans' Administration medical centers on the date of the enactment of this Act. (b) LIMITATION.—The plan submitted pursuant to subsection (a) shall provide for the collocation of only a regional office and a medical center which are located, on the date of the enactment of this Act, in the same metropolitan area. SEC. 503. EFFECTIVE DATE OF DISCONTINUANCE OF CERTAIN BENEFITS PAID TO INCOMPETENT INDIVIDUALS.

38 USC 3012.

Section 3012 is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: "(c) The effective date of a discontinuance under section 3203(b)(1)(A) of this title of pension, compensation, or emergency officers' retirement pay by reason of hospital treatment or institutional or domiciliary care shall be the last day of the first month of such treatment or care during which the value of the veteran's estate, as determined under such section, equals or exceeds $1,500.". SEC. 504. ADMINISTRATIVE DEBT COLLECTION BY OFFSET OF BENEFITS.

Section 3101 is amended— (1) by redesignating subsections (c) and (d) as subsections (d) and (e), respectively; and esil (2) by inserting after subsection (b) the following new subsection (c): "(c)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, the Administrator may, after receiving a request under paragraph (2) of this subsection relating to a veteran, collect by offset of any compensation or pension payable to the veteran under laws administered by the Veterans' Administration the uncollected portion of the amount of any indebtedness associated with the veteran's participation in a plan prescribed in subchapter I or II of chapter 73 of title 10 USC 1431 et

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"(2) If the Secretary concerned (as defined in section 101(5) of title 37) has tried under section 3711(a) of title 31 to collect an amount described in paragraph (1) of this subsection in the case of any vetersm, has been unable to collect such amount, and has deter-

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