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 PUBLIC LAW 99-576—OCT. 28, 1986

100 STAT. 3289

shall be established without regard to any amount of new budget authority in such account (determined under section 251(a)(6) of such Act) for any of the programs listed in subsection (a) of this 2 USC 901. section. "ie) If a final order issued by the President pursuant to a law Reports, proyiding for the cancellation of loan guarantee commitments imposes a limitation on the total amount of loans that may be guaranteed under chapter 37 of this title in any fiscal year, the 38 USC 1801 et Administrator shall submit to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs seq. of the Senate and the House of Representatives a monthly report (not later than the 10th day of each month during the remainder of such fiscal year following the issuance of such final order) providing the following information: "(1) The total amount of the loans for which commitments of guarantees were made under such chapter during the preceding month. "(2) The total amount of the loans for which commitments were made during the fiscal year through the end of such preceding month. "(3) The Administrator's estimates as to the total amounts of the loans for which commitments would, in the absence of any limits on such commitments or guarantees, be made during (A) the month in which the report is required to be submitted, and (B) the succeeding months of the fiscal year. "(f) This section applies without regard to any other provision of law (whether enacted before, on, or after the date of the enactment of this section) unless such Act expressly provides that it is enacted as a limitation to this section. "(g) For the purposes of this section: "(1) The term 'sequestration' means a reduction in spending authority and loan guarantee commitments generally throughout the Government under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 901 et seq.) or any other law. "(2) The term 'sequestration law' means a law enacted with respect to a sequestration under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 901 et seq.) or any other law (under the procedures specified in that Act or otherwise). "(3) The term 'sequestration order' means an order of the President issued under part C of such Act.". (2) The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter is amended by adding at the end the following new item: "113. Treatment of certain programs under sequestration procedures.". (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—Section 113 of title 38, United States Code

(as added by subsection (a)), shall apply with respect to a sequestration order issued, or a sequestration law enacted, for a fiscal year after fiscal year 1986. TITLE VII—TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS SEC. 701. ELIMINATION OF GENDER-BASED LANGUAGE DISTINCTIONS IN TITLE 38.

Title 38 is amended as follows: (1)(A) Section 102 is amended— (i) by striking out subsection (b);

38 USC 113 note,

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