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"(iii) which, in the production of commodities and in the provision of services during any fiscal year in which it receives financial assistance under this subsection, employs handicapped individuals for not less than 75 per centum of the man-hours required for the production or provision of the commodities or services; or " (B) to assist any handicapped individual in establishing, acquiring, or operating a small business concern. "(2) The Administration's share of any loan made under this subsection shall not exceed $350,000, nor may any such loan be made if the total amount outstanding and committed (by participation or otherwise) to the borrower from the business loan and investment fund established by section 4(c)(1)(B) of this Act would exceed $350,000. I n agreements to participate in loans on a deferred basis under this subsection, the Administration's participation may total 100 per centum of the balance of the loan at the time of disbursement. Any loan made under this subsection shall bear interest at the rate of 3 per centum per annum. The maximum term of any such loan, including extensions and renewals thereof, may not exceed fifteen years. All loans made under this subsection shall be of such sound value or so secured as reasonably to assure repayment: Provided, howecer^ That any reasonable doubt shall be resolved in favor of the applicant. "(3) For purposes of this subsection, the term 'handicapped individual' means a pereon who has a physical, mental, or emotional impairment, defect, ailment, disease, or disability of a permanent nature which in any way limits the selection of any type of employment for which the person would otherwise be qualified or qualifiable." Approved October 27, 1972.

Limitation.

80 Stat. 132. 15 USC 633.

' 'Handicapped individual."

Public Law 92-596 AN ACT To amend titles 10 and 37, United States Code, to authorize members of the armed forces who are in a missing status to accumulate leave without limitation, to amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize an additional Deputy Secretary of Defense, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 701 of title 10, United States Code, is amended— (1) by inserting "and subsection (g) " after "subsection (f) " in subsection (b); and (2) by adding the following new subsection: " (g) A member who is in a missing status, as defined in section 551(2) of title 37, accumulates leave without regard to the sixty-day limitation in subsection (b) and the ninety-day limitation in subsection (f). Notwithstanding the death of a member while in a missing status, he continues to earn leave through the date— " (1) the Secretary concerned receives evidence that the member is dead; or "(2) that his death is prescribed or determined under section 555 of title 37. Leave accumulated while in missing status shall be accounted for separately. I t may not be taken, but shall be paid for under section 501(h) of title 37. However, a member whose death is prescribed or determined under section 555 or 556 of title 37 may, in addition to

October 27, 1972 [H. R. 14911]

Armed Forces. Members in missing s t a t u s, leave accumulation. 76 Stat. 492; 81 Stat. 782. 80 Stat. 625.

80 Stat. 628.

P o s t, p. 1318.

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