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 PUBLIC LAW 96-60—AUG. 15, 1979

93 STAT. 397

to take effect on December 17, 1978. Any payments made in implementation of this section shall be from funds previously authorized and appropriated for the fiscal year 1979. IMPROVEMENT IN FOREIGN NATIONAL PAY PLANS

SEC. 107. (a) It is the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of 22 USC 889 note. State should— (1) improve coordination between the Department of State and the Department of Defense and other departments and agencies of the United States operating outside the United States with respect to foreign national pay systems and wage schedules to the extent that— (A) joint wage surveys and compatible pay schedules are adopted in countries where two or more departments or agencies of the United States directly employ foreign nationals, and (B) Department of Defense wage rates are included in wage surveys of the Department of State where the Department of Defense operates under indirect-hire arrangements; (2) monitor the establishment of wage rates outside the United States more closely to insure that United States missions— (A) operate under salary schedules that reflect private sector average pay or average pay ranges, (B) include the cost of severance in making pay adjustments, and (C) survey jobs in the private sector which represent as closely as possible the work force of the mission; and (3) substitute, whenever possible, prevailing local retirement plans for civil service retirement with respect to the retirement of foreign nationals employed by the United States. (b) Section 444(b) of the Foreign Service Act of 1946 (22 U.S.C. 889) is amended by inserting before the period at the end thereof the following: "and such regulations as the Secretary may prescribe". UNITED STATES CONSULATES

SEC. 108. (a) The following United States consulates shall not be 22 USC 2656 closed or, if closed on the date of enactment of this Act, shall be note. reopened as soon as possible after such date: Salzburg, Austria; Bremen, Germany; Nice, France; Turin, Italy; Goteborg, Sweden; Adana, Turkey; Tangier, Morocco; Mandalay, Burma; Brisbane, Australia; and Surabaya, Indonesia. 03) Personnel assigned to the consulates described in subsection (a) shall not be counted toward any personnel ceiling for the Department of State established by the Director of the Office of Management and Budget. NONIMMIGRANT VISAS

SEC. 109. Section 21 of the Act entitled "An Act to provide certain basic authority for the Department of State", approved August 1, 1956 (22 U.S.C. 2691), is amended— (1) by inserting "(a)" immediately after "SEC. 21."; and (2) by adding at the end thereof the following: "(b) This section does not apply to representatives of purported labor organizations in countries where such organizations are in fact instruments of a totalitarian state.

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