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[CITE: 22USC4071h]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
                       CHAPTER 52--FOREIGN SERVICE
 
       SUBCHAPTER VIII--FOREIGN SERVICE RETIREMENT AND DISABILITY
 
                 Part II--Foreign Service Pension System
 
Sec. 4071h. General and administrative provisions


(a) Administration by Secretary of State; issuance of regulations

    The Secretary of State shall administer the Foreign Service Pension 
System except for matters relating to the Thrift Savings Plan provided 
in subchapters III and VII of chapter 84 of title 5. The Secretary of 
State shall, with respect to the Foreign Service Pension System, perform 
the functions and exercise the authority vested in the Office of 
Personnel Management or the Director of such Office by such chapter 84 
and may issue regulations for such purposes.

(b) Appeal of determinations

    Determinations of the Secretary of State under the Foreign Service 
Pension System which, if made by the Office of Personnel Management 
under chapter 84 of title 5 or the Director of such Office, would be 
appealable to the Merit Systems Protection Board shall, instead, be 
appealable to the Foreign Service Grievance Board, except that 
determinations of disability for participants shall be based upon the 
standards in section 4048 of this title (other than the exclusion for 
vicious habits, intemperance, or willful misconduct) and subject to 
review in the same manner as under that section.

(c) Periodic valuations by Secretary of the Treasury

    At least every 5 years, the Secretary of the Treasury shall prepare 
periodic valuations of the Foreign Service Pension System and shall 
advise the Secretary of State of (1) the normal cost of the System, (2) 
the supplemental liability of the System, and (3) the amounts necessary 
to finance the costs of the System.

(Pub. L. 96-465, title I, Sec. 859, as added Pub. L. 99-335, title IV, 
Sec. 415, June 6, 1986, 100 Stat. 619.)
