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PUBLIC LAW 97-000—MMMM. DD, 1981

PUBLIC LAW 97-127—DEC. 29, 1981

95 STAT. 1679

(2) within six months after the Commission has completed the certification of awards pursuant to sections 5(b) and 6(b) of this Act, no vaHd application for payment is made by or on behalf of any person entitled to receive payment under this section on account of an award certified by the Commission pursuant to either such section, the Secretary shall give notice by publication in the Federal Register and in such other publications as the Secretary may determine that, unless valid application for payment is made within sixty days after the date of such publication, that person's award under title IV of the International Claims Settlement Act of 1949 or this Act, as the case 22 USC 1642. may be, and that person's right to receive payment on account of such award, shall lapse. Upon the expiration of such sixty-day period that person's award and right to receive payment shall lapse, and the amounts payable to that person shall be paid pro rata by the Secretary on account of all other awards under title IV of the International Claims Settlement Act of 1949 or this Act, as the case may be. INVESTMENT OF FUNDS

SEC. 9. The Secretary shall invest and hold in separate accounts the 22 USC note amounts held respectively in the accounts established by section 4 of ^^^^- ^^"^^ this Act. Such investment shall be in public debt securities with maturities suitable for the needs of the separate accounts and bearing interest at rates determined by the Secretary, taking into consideration the average market yield on outstanding marketable obligations of the United States of comparable maturities. The interest earned on the amounts in each account established by section 4 of this Act shall be used to make payments, in accordance with section 8(e) of this Act, on awards payable from that account. IMPLEMENTATION OF AGREEMENT

SEC. 10. (a) If, within sixty days after the date of the enactment of 22 USC note this Act—

prec. 1642.

(1) the Government of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic does not make the payments to the United States Government described in article 6(2) of the Agreement, or (2) the Czechoslovak Government does not receive the gold provided in article 6(1) of the Agreement, the provisions of this Act shall cease to be effective, and the provisions of the Agreement may not be implemented unless the Congress approves the Agreement after the end of that sixty-day period. (b) The sixty-day period for implementation of the Agreement implementation required by subsection (a) shall be extended by an additional period of P^""'^';, thirty calendar days if, before the expiration of that sixty-day period, extension. the Secretary of State certifies in writing that such extension is consistent with the purposes of this Act and reports that certification to the Speaker of the House of Representatives and to the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, together with a detailed statement of the reasons for the extension. If at the end of that additional thirty-day period the events set forth in paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection (a) have not occurred, the provisions of this Act shall cease to be effective and the provisions of the Agreement may not be implemented unless the Congress approves the Agreement after the end of that thirty-day period or unless the Congress, before the expiration of that thirty-day period, authorizes by joint resolution a further extension of time for implementation of the