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PUBLIC LAW 88-538-AUG. 31, 1964

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Public Law 88-537 AN ACT To provide for enforcement of rules and regulations for the protection, development, and administration of the national forests and national grasslands, and for other purposes.

August 31, 1964 [H. R. 7588]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Forest and United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act of grasslands. June 4, 1897, as amended (30 Stat. 11, 36; 16 U.S.C. 551), second full Protection. paragraph, page 35, and section 32(f), title III, of the BankheadJones Farm Tenant Act, as amended (50 Stat. 526; 7 U.S.C. 1011(f)), are further amended by addition of the following sentence in each case: "Any person charged with the violation of such rules and regulations may be tried and sentenced by any United States commissioner specially designated for that purpose by the court by which he was appointed, in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as provided for in title 18, United States Code, section 3401, subsections (b), (c), (d), and (e), as amended." 62 Stat. 830. Approved August 31, 1964. Public Law 88-538 AN ACT To provide authority for the payment of certain amounts to offset certain expenses of Federal employees assigned to duty on the California oflFshore islands, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, notwithstanding section 1765 of the Revised Statutes (5 U.S.C. 70), each employee of the United States who is assigned to duty, other than temporary duty, on one of the California offshore islands shall be paid, in addition to compensation otherwise due him, an allowance of not to exceed $10 per day: Provided, That such allowance shall be paid only in accordance with regulations prescribed by the President establishing the rates at which such allowance will be paid, and defining the areas and groups of positions to which such rates shall apply. SEC. 2. (a) Each employee or former employee of the Department of the Navy who was erroneously paid per diem in lieu of subsistence under section 3 of the Travel Expense Act of 1949 (5 U.S.C. 836), for the period he was assigned to one of the California offshore islands as his principal place of duty, is relieved of all liability to refund to the United States the amounts of per diem in lieu of subsistence so paid. (b) The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the employee, former employee, or other appropriate party concerned, in accordance with law, all amounts paid by or withheld from amounts otherwise due an employee or former employee of the Department of the Navy in complete or partial satisfaction of his liability to the United States for which relief has been granted by section 2 of this Act. SEC. 3. In accordance with regulations issued under the first section of this Act, the allowance authorized by such section may be made retroactively effective from the date erroneous payments of per diem in lieu of subsistence were discontinued as a result of the decision of the Comptroller General of the United States dated May 4, 1964 (B-153571). Approved August 31, 1964.

August 31, 1964 [H. R. 11211]

California offshore islands. Federal emplo5^ ees.

63 Stat. 166; 75 Stat. 339,340.

Appropriation.

Effective date.

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