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PUBLIC LAW 88-664-OCT. 13, 1964

[78 STAT.

tion the average yield on all marketable interest-bearing obligations of the United States of comparable maturities then forming a part of the public debt and shall be repaid to the Treasury over a reasonable period of time. " (2) The Administrator is authorized to set aside out of the revolving fund established under subsection (b) of this section such reserve amounts as may be required under accepted actuarial principles to meet all liabilities on insurance issued under subsection (b) of this section and any total disability income provision attached thereto. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to invest in and to sell and retire special interest-bearing obligations of the United States for the account of the revolving fund. Such obligations issued for this purpose shall have maturities fixed with due regard for the needs of the fund and shall bear interest at a rate equal to the average market yield (computed by the Secretary of the Treasury on the basis of market quotations as of the end of the calendar month next preceding the date of issue) on all marketable interest-bearing obligations of the United States then forming a part of the public debt which are not due or callable until after the expiration of four years from the end of such calendar month; except that where such average market yield is not a multiple of one-eighth of 1 per centum, the rate of interest of such obligation shall be the multiple of one-eighth of 1 per centum nearest such market yield. 38 us'c 782 ^" " (^) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 782 of this title, the Administrator shall, from time to time, determine the administrative costs to the Government which in his judgment are properly allocable to insurance issued under this section and any total disability income provision attached thereto, and shall transfer from the revolving fund, or the National Service Life Insurance appropriation, as appropriate, the amount of such cost allocable to the Veterans' Administration to the appropriation 'General Operating Expenses, Veterans' Administration', and the remainder of such cost to the general fund receipts in the Treasury. The initial administrative costs of issuing insurance under this section and any total disability income provision attached thereto shall be so transferred over such period of time as the Administrator determines to be reasonable and practicable. "(e) Notwithstanding^ the provisions of section 782 of this title, a medical examination (includm^ any supplemental examination or tests) when required of an applicant for issuance of insurance under this section or any total disability income provisions attached thereto shall be at the applicant's own expense by a duly licensed physician. " (f) No insurance shall be granted under this section to any person 72 Stat. n i l. referred to in section 107 of this title or to any person while on active duty or active duty for training under a call or order to such duty for a period of thirty-one days or more." Insurance plans. (b) Section 704 of title 38, United States Code, is amended (1) by inserting " (a) " immediately before "Insurance"; and (2) by adding at the end thereof the following: " (b) Under such regulations as the Administrator may promulgate a policy of participating insurance may be converted to or exchanged for insurance issued under this subsection on a modified life plan. Insurance issued under this subsection shall be on the same terms and conditions as the insurance which it replaces, except (1) the premium rates for such insurance shall be based on the 1958 Commissioners Standard Ordinary Basic Table of Mortality and interest at the rate of 3 per centum per annum; (2) all cash, loan, paid-up, and extended values shall be based on the 1958 Commissioners Standard Ordinary Basic Table of Mortality and interest at the rate of 3 per centum per annum; and (3) at the end of the day preceding the sixty-fifth birth-

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