107 STAT. 1254 PUBLIC LAW 103-123—OCT. 28, 1993 District of Columbia. Maryland. (b) For the purpose of this section, the term "statutory pay system" has the meaning given such term by section 5302(1) of title 5, United States Code. SEC. 518. None of the funds made available to the Postal Service by this Act shall be used to transfer mail processing capabilities from the Las Cruces, New Mexico postal facility, and that every effort will be made by the Postal Service to recognize the rapid rate of population growth in Las Cruces and to automate the Las Cruces, New Mexico postal facility in order that mail processing can be expedited and handled in Las Cruces. SEC. 519. None of the funds in this Act may be used to reduce the rank or rate of pay of a career appointee in the SES upon reassignment or transfer. SEC. 520. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall be available to pay the salary for any person filling a position, other than a temporary position, formerly held by an employee who has left to enter the Armed Forces of the United States and has satisfactorily completed his period of active military or naval service and has within ninety days after his release from such service or from hospitalization continuing after discharge for a period of not more than one year made application for restoration to his former position and has been certified by the Office of Personnel Management as still qualified to perform the duties of his former position and has not been restored thereto. SEC. 521. None of the funds made available to the United States Customs Service may be used to collect or impose any land border processing fee at ports of entry along the United States- Mexico border. SEC. 522. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this Act may, with respect to an individual employed by the Bureau of the Public Debt in the Washington Metropolitan Region on April 10, 1991, be used to separate, reduce the grade or pay of, or carry out any other adverse personnel action against such individual for declining to accept a directed reassignment to a position outside such region, pursuant to a transfer of any such Bureau's operations or functions to Parkersburg, West Virginia. (b) Subsection (a) shall not apply with respect to any individual who, on or after the date of enactment of this Act, declines an offer of another position in the Department of the Treasury which is of at least equal pay and which is within the Washington Metropolitan Region. SEC. 523. In consideration of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) modifying its requirement for acquisition of General Services Administration (GSA) property at the Suitland Federal Center in Suitleuid, Maryland, GSA shall transfer to WMATA, at no cost, approximately sixteen (16) acres of GSA property to allow WMATA to construct its proposed Suitland Metrorail Station and related surface facilities. GSA will bear no additional costs, as a result of this transaction. The property to be transferred is located at the northeast auadrant of the intersection of Suitland Parkway at Silver Hill Roaa and is the southeastern most portion of the Suitland Federal Center Complex. It is bounded by Silver Hill Road on the southeast, Suitland Parkway property owned by the National Park Service on the southwest, the existing stream valley between Suitland Parkway and the historic Suitland House on the northwest and on the northeast a line just south
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