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 PUBLIC LAW 98-621—NOV. 8, 1984

98 STAT. 3379

annual leave balances for those employees assumed by the District under the system implementation plan. (2) There is authorized to be appropriated for payment by the Federal Government to the District an amount equal to the liability identified by such audit. (g) Nothing in this Act shall affect the authority of the District of Columbia under any other statute to collect costs billed by the District of Columbia for mental health services, except that payment for the same costs may not be collected from more than one party. (h) The Government of the United States shall be solely responsible for— (1) all claims and causes of action against Saint Elizabeths Hospital that accrue before October 1, 1987, regardless of the date on which legal proceedings asserting such claims were or may be filed, except that the United States shall, in the case of any tort claim, only be responsible for any such claim against the United States that accrues before October 1, 1987, and the United States shall not compromise or settle any claim resulting in District liability without the consent of the District, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld; and (2) all claims that result in a judgment or award against Saint Elizabeths Hospital before October 1, 1987.

Appropriation authorization.

Claims.

REPEALS AND CONFORMING AMENDMENTS

SEC. 10. (a) Chapter 4 of title LIX of the Revised Statutes of the United States (24 U.S.C. 161, 165, 170, 191, 211, 211a, 211b, and 221, and D.C. Code 32-405 and 32-406) is repealed. (b) The matter under the subheading "SAINT EUZABETHS HOSPITAL." under the heading "DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR." in the first section of an Act of June 5, 1920, chapter 235 of the laws of the second session of the 66th Congress, is amended by striking out the second sentence (24 U.S.C. 166). (c) The matter under the subheading "SAINT ELIZABETHS HOSPITAL." under the heading "DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR." in the first section of the Second Deficiency Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1920, is amended by striking out the second and third sentences (24 U.S.C. 168 and 176). (d)(1) An Act of August 4, 1947, chapter 478 of the laws of the first session of the 80th Congress (24 U.S.C. 168a, 169, 169a, 185, and 195a), is repealed. (2) The matter under the heading "Saint Elizabeths Hospital" in title II of the Departments of Labor, and Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriation Act, 1955, is amended by striking out all that follows "$110,000" before the period. (e) The matter under the subheading "GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE." under the heading "UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR." in the first section of an Act of August 24, 1912, chapter 355 of the laws of the second session of the 62d Congress, is amended by striking out the second sentence (24 U.S.C. 171). (f) The first sentence under the subheading "GOVERNMENT HOSPITAL FOR THE INSANE." under the heading "MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS." in the first section of an Act of August 7, 1882, chapter 433 of the laws of the first session of the 47th Congress, is amended by striking out—

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41 Stat. 513.

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