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 PUBLIC LAW 96-330—AUG. 26, 1980

94 STAT. 1031

would be paid under this section to such dentist if such dentist were employed on a full-time basis, calculated on the basis of the proportion which the part-time employment of such dentist in the Department of Medicine and Surgery bears to full-time employment)". (2) Notwithstanding subsection (a)(2)(C) of section 4118 of title 38, United States Code, special pay may be paid under such section to a physician or dentist employed by the Department of Medicine and Surgery of the Veterans' Administration who is a reemployed annuitant if such physician or dentist was automatically separated before September 30, 1978, under section 8335(a) of title 5, United States Code, as in effect before such date, for having become 70 years of age. (b) Subsection (b) of such section is amended by striking out "$5,000" both places it appears and inserting in lieu thereof "$7,000". (c) Subsections (c) and (d) of such section are amended to read as follows: "(c)(1) In the case of eligible full-time physicians appointed under this chapter, the Administrator shall provide, in addition to the primary special pay provided for in subsection (b)(2) of this section and in accordance with regulations prescribed to carry out this section, incentive special pay of not more than $15,500 to any eligible physician. In prescribing such regulations to carry out this paragraph, the Administrator shall take into account only the following factors and may pay no more than the following per annum amounts of incentive special pay to any full-time physician eligible therefor: "(A)(i) For full-time status, $6,000. "(ii) For tenure of service within the Department of Medicine and Surgery— "(I) of two years but less than five years, $1,000; "(II) of five years but less than eight years, $2,000; and "(III) of eight years or more, $3,000. "(iii) For service in a medical specialty with respect to which the Chief Medical Director has determined, pursuant to such regulations, that there are extraordinary difficulties in the recruitment or retention of qualified physicians, an amount (to be determined by the Chief Medical Director pursuant to such regulations) of not less than $4,000 nor more than $15,500. "(B) For service— "(i) as a Service Chief (or in a comparable position as determined by the Chief Medical Director), $9,900; "(ii) as a Chief of Staff or in an Executive Grade, $12,600; "(iii) as a Deputy Service Director or in a Director Grade, $13,000; "(iv) as a Service Director, $13,500; "(v) as a Deputy Assistant Chief Medical Director, $14,440; or "(vi) as an Associate Deputy Chief Medical Director or Assistant Chief Medical Director, $15,300. "(C) For— "(i) specialty or first board certification, $2,000; or "(ii) subspecialty or secondary board certification, $2,500. "(D) For service (i) in a specific geographic location with respect to which the Chief Medical Director has determined, pursuant to such regulations, that there are extraordinary difficulties in the recruitment or retention of qualified physicians in the specific category of physicians, or (ii) in the Central Office of the Department of Medicine and Surgery, an amount (to

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