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 89 STAT. 1026

Present Postal employees.

PUBLIC LAW 94-172—DEC. 23, 1975 liquidation by lump-sum payment only if a claim therefor is filed within 3 years immediately following the date of enactment of this Act with the Postal Service. Payment shall be by the Postal Service at the salary rate in effect on the date the lump-sum payment provisions of section 5551 of title 5, United States Code, or comparable provisions of regulations of the Postal Service, as appropriate, last became applicable to the former emploj^ee. (b) With respect to a present employee of the Postal Service who had prior Federal civilian service with the Post Office Department or other Federal agency, annual leave which was accrued before July 1, 1971, but was not credited under section 5596 of title 5, United States Code, because it was in an amount that would have caused the amount of leave to the employee's credit to exceed the maximum amount of the leave authorized for the employee by law or regulation, is subject to credit and liquidation by lump-sum payment only if a claim therefor is filed with the Postal Service within three years immediately following the date of the enactment of this Act. Payment shall be by the Postal Service at the salary rate in effect on the date of the enactment of this Act. Approved December 23, 1975.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: HOUSE REPORT No. 94-447 (Comm. on Post Office and Civil Service). SENATE REPORT No. 94-536 (Comm. on Post Office and Civil Service). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 121 (1975): Oct. 6, considered and passed House. Dec. 15, considered and passed Senate.

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