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PUBLIC LAW 93-618-JAN. 3, 1975

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(b) All money paid a State under this section shall be used solely for the purposes for which it is paid; and money so paid which is not used for such purposes shall be returned, at the time specified in the agreement under this subchapter, to the Secretary of the Treasury and credited to Adjustment Assistance Trust Fund. ^ Surety bond to ^(.^ ^j^y agreement under this subchapter may require any officer or employee of the State certifying payments or disbursing funds under the agreement or otherwise participating in the performance of the agreement, to give a surety bond to the United States in such amount as the Secretary may deem necessary, and may provide for the payment of the cost of such bond from funds for carrying out the purposes of this chapter. 19 USC 2314. SEC. 242. LIABILITIES OF CERTIFYING AND DISBURSING OFFICERS. (a) No person designated by the Secretary, or designated pursuant to an agreement under this subchapter, as a certifving officer, shall, in the absence of gross negligence or intent to defraud the United States, be lia;ble with respect to any payment certified by him under this chapter. (b) No disbursing officer shall, in the absence of gross negligence or intent to defraud the United States, be liable with respect to any payment by him under this chapter if it was based upon a voucher signed by a certifying officer designated as provided in subsection (a). 19 USC 2315. SEC. 243. RECOVERY OF OVERPAYMENTS. (a) If a cooperating State agency or the Secretary, or a court of competent jurisdiction finds that any person— (1) has made or has caused to be made by another, a false statement or representation of a material fact knowing it to be false, or has knowingly failed or caused another to fail to disclose a material fact; and (2) as a result of such action has received any payment under this chapter to which he was not entitled, such person shall be liable to repay such amount to the State agency or the Secretary as the case may be, or either may recover such amount by deductions from any sums payable to such person under this chapter. Any such finding by a State agency or the Secretary may be made only after an opportunity for a fair hearing. (b) Any amount repaid to a State agency under this section shall be deposited into the fund from which payment was made. Any amount repaid to the Secretary under this section shall be returned to the Secretary of the Treasury and credited to the Adjustment Assistance Trust Fund. 19 USC 2316. SEC. 244. PENALTIES. Whoever makes a false statement of a material fact knowing it to be false, or knowingly fails to disclose a material fact, for the purpose of obtaining or increasing for himself or for any other person any payment authorized to be furnished under this chapter or pursuant to an agreement under section 239 shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned for not more than one year, or both. 19 USC 2317. SEC. 245. CREATION OF TRUST FUND; AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS OUT OF CUSTOMS RECEIPTS. siftl^ceTmsf ^ (^) There is hereby established on the books of the Treasury of Fund. the United States a trust fund to be known as the "Adjustment AssistEstablishment. QJT^^ Trust F u n d " (referred to in this section as the "Trust F u n d ").

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