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[CITE: 16USC580j]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
      CHAPTER 3--FORESTS; FOREST SERVICE; REFORESTATION; MANAGEMENT
 
                    SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 580j. Injury benefits for temporary employees

    Appropriations of the Forest Service chargeable with salaries and 
wages shall be available for payment to temporary employees of the 
Forest Service for loss of time due to injury in official work at rates 
not in excess of those provided by subchapter I of chapter 81 of title 
5, when the injured person is in need of immediate financial assistance 
to avoid hardship: Provided, That such payment shall not be made for a 
period in excess of fifteen days and the Secretary of Labor shall be 
notified promptly of the amount so paid, which amount shall be deducted 
from the amount, if any, otherwise payable by the Secretary of Labor to 
the employee on account of the injury, the amount so deducted by the 
Secretary of Labor to be paid to the Forest Service for deposit to the 
credit of the Forest Service appropriation from which the expenditure 
was made: Provided further, That when any person assisting in the 
suppression of forest fires or in other emergency work under the 
direction of the Forest Service, without compensation from the United 
States, pursuant to the terms of a contract, agreement, or permit, is 
injured in such work, the Forest Service may furnish hospitalization and 
other medical care, subsistence, and lodging for a period of not to 
exceed fifteen days during such disability, the cost thereof to be 
payable from the appropriation applicable to the work upon which the 
injury occurred, except that this proviso shall not apply when such 
person is within the purview of a State or other compensation act: 
Provided further, That determination by the Forest Service that payment 
is allowable under this section shall be final as to payments made 
hereunder, but such determination or payments with respect to employees 
shall not prevent the Secretary of Labor from denying further payments 
should the Secretary of Labor determine that compensation is not 
properly allowable under the provisions of subchapter I of chapter 81 of 
title 5.

(Apr. 24, 1950, ch. 97, Sec. 16, 64 Stat. 86.)

                          Codification

    ``Subchapter I of chapter 81 of title 5'' substituted in text for 
references to the United States Employees' Compensation Act, on 
authority of Pub. L. 89-554, Sec. 7(b), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 631, the 
first section of which enacted Title 5, Government Organization and 
Employees.

                          Transfer of Functions

    References to Secretary of Labor substituted in text for references 
to the United States Employees' Compensation Commission. United States 
Employees' Compensation Commission, created by section 28 of act Sept. 
7, 1916, ch. 458, 39 Stat. 748, abolished and functions thereof 
transferred to Federal Security Agency to be performed in such manner 
and under such rules and regulations as Federal Security Administrator 
shall prescribe, by section 3 of Reorg. Plan No. 2 of 1946. These 
functions subsequently transferred to Department of Labor, to be 
administered under direction and supervision of Secretary of Labor, by 
section 1 of Reorg. Plan No. 19, of 1950.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 580k of this title.
