PUBLIC LAW 97-424—JAN. 6, 1983 except that no high unemployment period shall last for a period of less than 4 weeks unless such State enters a higher unemployment period or a period described in subparagraph (B)(ii). "(E) For purposes of subparagraph (B), the term 'intermediate unemployment period' means with respect to any State, the period— "(i) which begins with the third week after the first week in which the rate of insured unemployment in the State for the period consisting of such week and the immediately preceding 12 weeks equals or exceeds 3.5 percent but is less than 4.5 percent, and "(ii) which ends with the third week after the first week in which the rate of insured unemployment in the State for the period consisting of such week and the immediately preceding 12 weeks is less than 3.5 percent or equals or exeeds 4.5 percent; except that no intermediate unemployment period shall last for a period of less that 4 weeks unless such State enters a high unemployment period, a higher unemployment period, or a period described in subparagraph (B) (ii) or (iii). "(F) For purposes of this subsection, the rate of insured unemployment for any period shall be determined in the same manner as determined for purposes of section 203 of the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970. "(3) The amount of Federal supplemental compensation payable to an eligible individual shall not exceed the amount in such individual's account established under this subsection." (b) The amendments made by subsection (a) shall apply to Federal supplemental compensation payable for weeks beginning on or after the date of the enactment of this Act. In the case of any eligible individual to whom any Federal supplemental compensation was payable for any week beginning prior to such date of enactment and who exhausted his rights to such compensation (by reason of the payment of all the amount in his Federal supplemental compensation account) prior to the first week beginning on or after such date of enactment, such individual's eligibility for additional weeks of compensation by reason of the amendments made by this section shall not be limited or terminated by reason of any event, or failure to meet any requirement of law relating to eligibility for unemployment compensation, occurring after the date of such exhaustion of rights and prior to the date of the enactment of this Act (and such weeks shall not be counted for purposes of determining the expiration of the two years following the end of his benefit year for purposes of section 602(b) of the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982). (c) The Secretary of Labor shall, at the earliest practicable date after the date of the enactment of this Act, propose to each State with which he has in effect an agreement under section 602 of the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 1982 a modification of such agreement designed to provide for the payment of Federal supplemental compensation under such Act in accordance with the amendments made by this Act. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if any State fails or refuses, within the three-week period beginning on the date the Secretary of Labor proposes such a modification to such State, to enter into such a modification of such agreement, the Secretary of Labor shall terminate such agreement
96 STAT. 2197
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