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[CITE: 22USC3731]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
                        CHAPTER 51--PANAMA CANAL
 
              SUBCHAPTER I--ADMINISTRATION AND REGULATIONS
 
                       Part 3--Funds and Accounts
 
                    subpart iii--interagency accounts
 
Sec. 3731. Reimbursements


(a) Reimbursement of the Employees' Compensation Fund, Bureau of 
        Employees' Compensation, Department of Labor, and other 
        Government departments and agencies by Commission

    The Commission shall reimburse the Employees' Compensation Fund, 
Bureau of Employee's Compensation, Department of Labor, for the benefit 
payments to the Commission's employees, and shall also reimburse other 
Government departments and agencies for payments of a similar nature 
made on its behalf.

(b) Reimbursement of Commission by Department of Defense

    The Department of Defense shall reimburse the Commission for amounts 
expended by the Commission in maintaining defense facilities in standby 
condition for the Department of Defense.

(c) Designation of funds of Department of Defense or any other 
        department or agency of United States to carry out purposes of 
        this subsection

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds appropriated (for 
any fiscal year beginning after September 30, 1979) to or for the use of 
the Department of Defense, or to any other department or agency of the 
United States as may be designated by the President to carry out the 
purposes of this subsection, shall be available for--
        (1) conducting the educational and health care activities, 
    including kindergartens and college, carried out by the Canal Zone 
    Government and the Panama Canal Company before October 1, 1979, and
        (2) providing the services related thereto to the categories of 
    persons to which such services were provided before October 1, 1979.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Department of Defense, 
or any department or agency designated by the President to provide 
health care services to those categories of persons referred to in this 
subsection, shall provide such services to such categories of persons on 
a basis no less favorable than that applied to its own employees and 
their dependents.

(d) Reimbursement to departments or agencies furnishing services

    Amounts expended for furnishing services referred to in subsection 
(c) of this section to persons eligible to receive them, less amounts 
payable by such persons, shall be fully reimbursable to the department 
or agency furnishing the services, except to the extent that such 
expenditures are the responsibility of that department or agency. The 
funds of the Commission shall be available for such reimbursements on 
behalf of--
        (1) employees of the Commission, and
        (2) other persons authorized to receive such services who are 
    eligible to receive them pursuant to the Panama Canal Treaty of 1977 
    and related agreements.

The appropriations or funds of any other department or agency of the 
United States conducting operations in the Republic of Panama, including 
the Smithsonian Institution, shall be available for reimbursements on 
behalf of employees of such department or agency and their dependents.

(e) Repealed. Pub. L. 105-261, div. C, title XXXV, Sec. 3507(a), Oct. 
        17, 1998, 112 Stat. 2269

(f) Reimbursement of United States by Republic of Panama for salaries 
        and other employment costs

    For purposes of the reimbursement of the United States by the 
Republic of Panama for the salaries and other employment costs of 
employees of the Commission who are assigned to assist the Republic of 
Panama in the operation of activities which are transferred to that 
Government as a result of any provision of the Panama Canal Treaty of 
1977 and related agreements, which reimbursement is provided for in 
paragraph 8 of Article 10 of that Treaty, the Commission shall be deemed 
to be the United States of America.

(g) Operation of Canal Zone College

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the President, through 
the appropriate department or agency of the United States, shall, until 
January 1, 2000, operate the educational institution known as the 
``Canal Zone College''. Such institution shall continue to provide, 
insofar as practicable, the level of services which it offered 
immediately before October 1, 1979.

(h) Prohibition of funds for uses other than Commission activities

    Except as expressly provided in this chapter, funds available to the 
Panama Canal Commission may not be made available to any other agency as 
that term is defined in section 551 of title 5, nor may funds be 
authorized or appropriated for any function other than Panama Canal 
Commission activities.

(Pub. L. 96-70, title I, Sec. 1321, Sept. 27, 1979, 93 Stat. 480; Pub. 
L. 99-223, Sec. 5(c), Dec. 28, 1985, 99 Stat. 1739; Pub. L. 100-705, 
Sec. 8, Nov. 19, 1988, 102 Stat. 4686; Pub. L. 102-484, div. C, title 
XXXV, Sec. 3512, Oct. 23, 1992, 106 Stat. 2655; Pub. L. 103-337, div. C, 
title XXXVI, Sec. 3604, Oct. 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 3112; Pub. L. 104-106, 
div. C, title XXXV, Sec. 3529(3), Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 642; Pub. L. 
104-201, div. C, title XXXV, Sec. 3542, Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2867; 
Pub. L. 105-85, div. C, title XXXV, Secs. 3525(b), 3550(d)(2)(A), (B), 
Nov. 18, 1997, 111 Stat. 2066, 2074; Pub. L. 105-261, div. C, title 
XXXV, Sec. 3507(a), Oct. 17, 1998, 112 Stat. 2269.)

                       References in Text

    This chapter, referred to in subsec. (h), was in the original ``this 
Act'', meaning Pub. L. 96-70, Sept. 27, 1979, 93 Stat. 452, known as the 
Panama Canal Act of 1979, which is classified principally to this 
chapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short 
Title note set out under section 3601 of this title and Tables.


                               Amendments

    1998--Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 105-261 struck out subsec. (e) which 
provided that appropriations or funds of the Commission or of any other 
department or agency of the United States conducting operations in the 
Republic of Panama were available to defray the cost of certain health 
care services and educational services.
    1997--Subsec. (c)(1). Pub. L. 105-85, Sec. 3550(d)(2)(A), 
substituted ``October 1, 1979'' for ``the effective date of this Act''.
    Subsec. (c)(2). Pub. L. 105-85, Sec. 3550(d)(2)(B), substituted 
``October 1, 1979'' for ``such effective date''.
    Subsec. (e)(2). Pub. L. 105-85, Sec. 3525(b), substituted ``, to 
other Commission employees when determined by the Commission to be 
necessary for their recruitment or retention, and to other persons'' for 
``and persons''.
    1996--Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 104-106 struck out ``appropriations or'' 
before ``funds of the Commission'' in introductory provisions.
    Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 104-201 inserted concluding provisions 
``Notwithstanding the provisions relating to the availability of 
adequate schools contained in section 5924(4)(A) of title 5, the 
Commission shall by regulation determine the extent to which costs of 
educational services may be defrayed under this subsection.''
    1994--Subsec. (e)(2). Pub. L. 103-337 inserted ``or the United 
States'' after ``schools in the Republic of Panama''.
    1992--Subsec. (e)(1). Pub. L. 102-484 inserted ``provided by medical 
facilities licensed and approved by the Republic of Panama (and not 
operated by the United States)'' after ``health care services''.
    1988--Subsec. (h). Pub. L. 100-705 added subsec. (h).
    1985--Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 99-223 amended subsec. (e) generally, 
striking out ``, in accordance with subsection (d) of this section,'' 
after ``shall be available'' in provisions preceding par. (1) and 
inserting ``employees of the Commission who are citizens of the United 
States and'' in par. (2).


                    Effective Date of 1998 Amendment

    Pub. L. 105-261, div. C, title XXXV, Sec. 3507(a), Oct. 17, 1998, 
112 Stat. 2269, provided that the amendment made by section 3507(a) 
striking out subsec. (e) of this section is effective 11:59 p.m. 
(Eastern Standard Time), Dec. 30, 1999, and any right or condition of 
employment provided for in, or arising from, subsec. (e) of this section 
is terminated.


                    Effective Date of 1988 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 100-705 effective Oct. 1, 1988, see section 10 
of Pub. L. 100-705, set out as a note under section 3612 of this title.


                    Effective Date of 1985 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 99-223 effective Oct. 1, 1985, see section 8 of 
Pub. L. 99-223, set out as a note under section 3612 of this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 3751 of this title.
