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PUBLIC LAW 89-749-NOV. 3, 1966

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708. under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Act of 1959, so long 73uStat. 3001 note. 5 se as the Department continues to collect the employee's contribution from the officer or employee involved and to transmit for timely deposit into the funds created under such Acts the amount of the employee's contributions and the Government's contribution from appropriations of the Department; and " (iv)(I) in the case of commissioned officers of the Service, to have their service during their assignment treated as provided in section 214(d) for such officers on leave without pay, or ( II) in ^^ f ' ' ^^o^^ the case of other officers and employees in the Department, to credit the period of their assignment under the arrangement under this subsection toward periodic or longevity step increases and for retention and leave accrual purposes, and, upon payment into the civil service retirement and disability fund of the percentage of their State salary, and of their supplemental salary payments, if any, which would have been deducted from a like Federal salary for the period of such assignment and payment by the Secretary into such fund of the amount which would have been payable by him during the period of such assignment with respect to a like Federal salary, to treat (notwithstanding the provisions of the Independent Offices Appropriation Act, 1959, under the head 'Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund') their service cTrf^^ooi?^"*". I

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during such period as service withm the meaning oi the Civil Service Retirement Act; except that no officer or employee or his beneficiary may receive any benefits under the Civil Service Retirement Act, the Federal Employees Health Benefits Act of 1959, or the Federal Employees' 68 Stat. 736. Group Life Insurance Act of 1954, based on service during an assign- 5 USC 2091 note. ment hereunder for which the officer or employee or (if he dies without making such election) his beneficiary elects to receive benefits, under any State retirement or insurance law or program, which the Civil Service Commission determines to be similar. The Department shall deposit currently in the funds created under the Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance Act of 1954, the Federal Employees Health Benefits Act of 1959, and the civil service retirement and disability fund, respectively, the amount of the Government's contribution under these Acts on account of service with respect to which employee contributions are collected as provided in subparagraph (iii) and the amount of the Government's contribution under the Civil Service Retirement Act on account of service with respect to which payments (of the amount which would have been deducted under that Act) referred to in subparagraph (iv) are made to such civil service retirement and disability fund. " (D) Any such officer or employee on leave without pay (other than a commissioned officer of the Service) who suffers disability or death as a result of personal injury sustained while in the performance of his duty during an assignment hereunder, shall be treated, for the purposes of the Federal Employees' Compensation Act, as though he 63^stft.^'854!^' were an employee, as defined in such Act, who had sustained such suse 751 note, injury in the performance of duty. When such person (or his dependents, in case of death) entitled by reason of injury or death to benefits under that Act is also entitled to benefits from a State for the same injury or death, he (or his dependents in case of death) shall elect which benefits he will receive. Such election shall be made within one year after the injury or death, or such further time as the Secretary of Labor may for good cause allow, and when made shall be irrevocable unless otherwise provided by law. "(4) Assignment of any officer or employee in the Department to a State under this subsection may be made with or without reimburse-

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