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 97 STAT. 728 PUBLIC LAW 98-104—SEPT. 30, 1983 Reduced amount, determination. 93 Stat. 881. Catastrophic or unordinary events. 39 Stat. 718. Report review by Federal Emergency Management Agency. a statement as to whether or not the determinations made by the enrolled actuary fairly present, in all material respects, the require- ments of subsection (a) of this section. " (3) With respect to each applicable fiscal year, the Comptroller General shall make a determmation, as provided for under subsec- tion (c)(1) of this section of the amount, if any, by which the authorization under section 144(a)(1) should be reduced. The results of such determination, together with such other data, information, and comments as the Comptroller General may deem necessary to enable the Congress, and the appropriate committees thereof, to carry out the provisions of subsection (c) of this section, shall be included as a part of his report under paragraph (1) of this subsection. "(c)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, with respect to the fiscal year commencing October 1, 1984, and each fiscal year thereafter through the fiscal year commencing October 1, 2004, the authorization under section 144(a)(1) for each such fiscal year shall be deemed, for purposes of such section, to be reduced in the amount hereafter provided, if the report, submitted by the Comptroller General pursuant to subsection (b) of this section in the calendar year in which such fiscal year commences, states that the disability retirement rate under subsection (a) of this section for the preceding calendar year is greater than eight-tenths of a per- centage point. The amount of such reduction shall be IVa per centum for each whole tenth of a percentage point by which the disability retirement rate is greater than eight-tenths of a percent- age point. "(2) There shall be no reduction pursuant to section 144(a)(1) and paragraph (1) of this subsection for any such fiscal year, if, in computing the disability retirement rate under subsection (a) of this section for the calendar year preceding the calendar year in which such fiscal year commences, the numerator is less than eight. "(3)(A) If the Board determines, on the basis of substantial facts, that unordinary circumstances or events of catastrophic magnitude, such as a fire or civil disorder, caused or significantly contributed to the number of disability retirements under subsection (g)(1) of sec- tion 12 of the Policemen and Firemen's Retirement and Disability Act during a calendar year covered by the report submitted by the Comptroller General pursuant to subsection (b) of this section, it shall submit a detailed statement on such circumstances and events to the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Comptrol- ler General. Such statement shall be submitted on or before July 1 of the calendar year next following the calendar year covered by such report of the Comptroller General. The statement shall con- tain, among other matters, data on the total number of disability retirements under subsections (f)(1) and (g)(1) of section 12 of such Act for the applicable calendar year, the number of such retire- ments under subsection (g)(1) of such Act which, in the opinion of the Board, were caused or significantly contributed to by such circumstances or events, and an explanation as to why the Board considers such events or circumstances to be unordinary and of a catastrophic magnitude. "(B) The Federal Emergency Management Agency shall review the Board's report and provide the Board its assessment within sixty days of receipt of the Board's report, of the scope, nature, involve- ment, and impact on District of Columbia police officers and fire- fighters of the events determined by the Board to be of unordinary

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