Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 79.djvu/945

 79 STAT. ]

PUBLIC LAW 89-234-OCT. 2, 1965

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(f) Each transferring officer who prior to January 1, 1957, was insurance insured pursuant to the Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance x^ct °^'"^^^of 1954, and who subsequently waived such insurance, shall be entitled 5^us*c*"2 ^o^f * to become insured under such Act upon his transfer to the Federal note. Water Pollution Control Administration regardless of age and insurability. (g) Any commissioned officer of the Public Health Service who, Compensation. pursuant to subsection (b) of this section, is transferred to a position in the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration which is subject to the Classification Act of 1949, as amended, shall receive a salary 5^us*c*'io7^i^' rate of the General Schedule grade of such position which is nearest to note. but not less than the sum of (1) basic pay, quarters and subsistence allowances, and, in the case of a medical officer, special pay, to which he was entitled as a commissioned officer of the Public Health Service on the day immediately preceding his transfer, and (2) an amount equal to the equalization factor (as defined in this subsection); but in no event shall the rate so established exceed the maximum rate of such grade. As used in this section, the term "equalization factor" means "Equalization an amount determined by the Secretary to be equal to the sum of (A) 61-^ per centum of such basic pay and (B) the amount of Federal income tax which the transferring officer, had he remained a commissioned officer, would have been required to pay on such allowances for quarters and subsistence for the taxable year then current if they had not been tax free. (h) A transferring officer who has had one or more years of com- ^^""^ leave. missioned service in the Public Health Service immediately prior to his transfer under subsection (b) shall, on the date of such transfer, be credited with thirteen days of sick leave. (i) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, any commis- special retire. sioned officer of the United States Public Health Service with twenty- ™^" provisions. five or more years of service who has held the temporary rank of Assistant Surgeon General in the Division of Water Supply and Pollution Control of the United States Public Health Service for three or more years and whose position and duties are affected by this Act, may, with the approval of the President, voluntarily retire from the United States Public Health Service with the same retirement benefits that would accrue to him if he had held the rank of Assist-ant Surgeon General for a period of four years or more if he so retires within ninety days of the date of the establishment of the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration. (j) Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to restrict or in any way limit the head of the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration in matters of organization or in otherwise carrying out his duties under section 2 of this Act as he deems appropriate to the discharge of the functions of such Administration. (k) The Surgeon General shall be consulted by the head of the Administration on the public health aspects relating to water pollution over which the head of such Administration has administrative responsibility. SEC. 3. Such Act is further amended by inserting after the section redesignated as section 5 a new section as follows: " G R A N T S FOR R E S E A R C H A N D DE^^5LOPMENT

"SEC. 6. (a) The Secretary is authorized to make grants to any combined sewer State, municipality, or intermunicipal or interstate agency for the t^^n^c'^ntro". purpose of assisting in the deA'^elopment of any project which will demonstrate a new or improved method of controlling the discharge into any waters of untreated or inadequately treated sewage or other waste from sewers which carry storm water or both storm water and 49-850 0-66—60

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