Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 95.djvu/1226

 95 STAT. 1200

PUBLIC LAW 97-92—DEC. 15, 1981

SEC. 136. Notwithstanding any other provision of this joint resolution, subject only to the absence of qualified applicants, and within the limits of funds and authority available, the head of each department and agency for which authority to enter into commitments to guarantee or insure is provided for in this joint resolution or H.R. 4034 shall enter into commitments to guarantee or insure in the full amounts provided for in this joint resolution or other applicable law. SEC. 137, Notwithstanding any other provision of law or of this joint resolution, of the fiscal year 1982 Highway Trust Funds available for emergency relief, $17,000,000 shall be made available for damaged highways or for the prevention of damage to highways in the area affected by eruptions of the Mount Saint Helens volcano. SEC. 138. Notwithstanding any other provision of title 23, United States Code, or of this joint resolution, the Secretary of Transportation shall approve, upon the request of the State of Indiana, the construction of an interchange to appropriate standards at 1-94 and County Line Road at the Porter-La Porte County Line near Michigan City, Indiana, with the Federal share of such construction to be financed out of funds apportioned to the State of Indiana under section 104(b)(5)(A) of title 23, United States Code. SEC. 139. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, or of this joint resolution, any proposal for deferral of budget authority under section 1013 of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (31 U.S.C. 1403) with respect to budget authority for expenses related to the Northeast Corridor Improvement Project authorized under title VII of the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976 (Public 45 USC 851. Law 94-210) shall, upon transmittal to the Congress, be referred to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations and any amount of budget authority proposed to be deferred therein shall be made available for obligation unless, within a 45-day period which begins on the date of transmittal and which is equivalent to that described in section 1011(3) and (5) of the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (31 U.S.C. 1401 (3) and (5)), the Congress has completed action on a bill approving all or part of the proposed deferral. 28 USC 461 note. SEC. 140. Notwithstanding any other provision of law or of this joint resolution, none of the funds appropriated by this joint resolution or by any other Act shall be obligated or expended to increase, after the date of enactment of this joint resolution, any salary of any Federal judge or Justice of the Supreme Court, except as may be specifically authorized by Act of Congress hereafter enacted: Provided, That nothing in this limitation shall be construed to reduce any salary which may be in effect at the time of enactment of this joint resolution nor shall this limitation be construed in any manner to reduce the salary of any Federal judge or of any Justice of the Supreme Court. 5 USC 5318 note. SEC. 141. (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 305 of H.R. 4120 made applicable by section 101(g) of this joint resolution, but subject to subsection (b) of this section, nothing in section 101(g) shall (or shall be construed to) require that the rate of salary or basic pay, payable to any individual for or on account of services performed after December 31, 1981, be limited to or reduced to an amount which is less than— (1) $59,500, if such individual has an office or position the salary or pay for which corresponds to the rate of basic pay for level III of the Executive Schedule under section 5314 of title 5, United States Code; (2) $58,500, if such individual has an office or position the salary or pay for which corresponds to the rate of basic pay for

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