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 94 STAT. 96

PUBLIC LAW 96-209—MAR. 14, 1980 Public Law 96-209 96th Congress An Act

Mar. 14, 1980 [H.R. 4337]

U.S. Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, transfer to Justice Department. 22 USC 1622a. 22 USC 1622 note. 22 USC 1622b.

50 USC app. 2001 note. 22 USC 1621 note. Chairman and members. 22 USC 1622c.

Terms of office.

To provide for the transfer of the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States to the United States Department of Justice as a separate agency in that Department; to provide for the authority and responsibility of the Department of Justice to supply to the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission certain administrative support services without altering the adjudicatory independence of the Commission; to change the terms of office and method of appointment of the members of the Commission; and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the purposes of this Act are as follows: TITLE I SEC. 101. The Foreign Claims Settlement Commission of the United States, established under Reorganization Plan Numbered 1 of 1954, is hereby transferred to the Department of Justice as a separate agency within that Department. SEC. 102. All functions, powers, and duties of the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission established by Reorganization Plan Numbered 1 of 1954 are hereby transferred with the Commission, together with personnel, assets, liabilities, unexpended balances of appropriations, authorizations, allocations, and other funds held, used, available, or to be made available in connection with the statutory functions of the Commission. The Commission shall continue to perform its functions as provided by the War Claims Act of 1948, as amended, the International Claims Settlement Act of 1949, as amended, and Reorganization Plan Numbered 1 of 1954, SEC. 103. (a) The Commission shall be composed of a Chairman and two members. The Chairman shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to serve on a full-time basis for a term of three years, and compensated at the rate provided for level V of the Executive Schedule under section 5316 of title 5, United States Code. (b) The other members of the Commission shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and serve on a part-time basis, and be compensated on a per diem basis at a rate of compensation equivalent to the daily rate for level V of the Executive Schedule under section 5316 of title 5, United States Code, for each day that such member is employed in the actual performance of official business of the Commission as may be directed by the Chairman. Each member shall be reimbursed for travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by section 5703 of title 5 for persons in Government service employed intermittently. (c) The terms of Office of the Chairman and members of the Commission shall be for three years, except the Chairman and members first appointed after the enactment of this subsection shall be appointed to terms ending respectively September 30, 1982,

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