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 97 STAT. 32 PUBLIC LAW 98-8 —MAR. 24, 1983 Report to Congress. this Act. It is the intent of the Congress that funds appropriated or otherwise made available under this title be obligated and disbursed as rapidly as possible so as to quickly assist the unemployed and the needy as well as minimize future year budgetary outlays. (d) Funds or authority to be made available for projects and activities in civil jurisdictions or States with high unemployment, labor surplus areas, or political units or pockets of poverty that are currently or should meet the criteria to be eligible under the Urban Development Action Grant program administered by the Depart- ment of Housing and Urban Development, or to State or sub-State jurisdictions, in accordance with this section, but which cannot be rapidly or efficiently utilized shall be identified in a report transmit- ted to Congress by the Office of Management and Budget not later than thirty days following enactment of this Act. Not later than ten days following transmittal of such report, such funds shall be reallo- cated on the basis of the provisions of law authorizing each such program. (e) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the head of each Federal agency to which appropriations are made under this title, with respect to project grants or project contracts in this section, shall expedite final approval of projects in areas of high unemploy- ment, labor surplus areas, or in political units or in pockets of poverty that are currently or should meet the criteria to be eligible under the Urban Development Action Grant program administered by the Department of Housing and Urban Development in order to allocate sums as required by this section. Nothing required by this section shall impede the rapid expenditure of funds under this section. (f) Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, smy agency rule- making proceeding conducted in order to implement the provisions of this title shall be conducted expeditiously, and in no case shall an agency hearing on the record be required. RAILROAD UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS SEC. 102. (a) The Railroad Unemplo5ment Insurance Act (45 U.S.C. 351 et seq.) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section: 45 USC 368. 45 USC 351. 45 USC 231. SUPPLEMENTAL BENEFITS "SEC. 17. (a) An employee as defined in section 1(d) of this Act shall be entitled to supplemental unemployment benefits in accord- ance with the provisions of this section for each day of unemploy- ment in excess of four during any registration period in such employee's period of eligibility if such employee— "(1) has less than ten years of service as defined in section 1(f) of the Railroad Retirement Act of 1974, did not voluntarily retire, and did not voluntarily leave work without good cause; "(2) has with respect to the benefit year beginning July 1, 1982, exhausted all rights to unemployment benefits under this Act other than supplemental unemployment benefits payable by reason of this section; "(3) has no rights to unemployment benefits under any State unemployment compensation law or any other Federal law; and

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