Ill STAT. 666 PUBLIC LAW 105-33—AUG. 5, 1997 Control Act of 1985) for the amount of such recoveries for fiscal year 1998 by at least $25,000,000, the Secretary shall promptly certify to the Secretary of the Treasury the amount of the shortfall (as estimated by the Secretary) that is in excess of $25,000,000. Upon receipt of such a certification, the Secretary of the Treasury shall, not later than 30 days after receiving the certification, deposit in the fund, from any unobligated amounts in the Treasury, an amount equed to the amount certified by the Secretary. "(B) If for fisc£d year 1998 a deposit is made under subparagraph (A) and the Secretary subsequently determines that the actual amount recovered for that fiscal year under the provisions of law specified in subsection (b) is greater than the amount estimated by the Secretary that was used for purposes of the certification by the Secretary under subparagraph (A), the Secretary shall pay into the general fund of the Treasury, from amounts available for medical care, an amount equal to the difference between the amount actually recovered and the amount so estimated (but not in excess of the amount of the deposit under subparagraph (A) pursuant to such certification). "(C) If for fiscal year 1998 a deposit is made under subparagraph (A) and the Secretary subsequently determines that the actual amount recovered for that fiscal year under the provisions of law specified in subsection (b) is less than the amount estimated by the Secretary that was used for purposes of the certification by the Secretary under subparagraph (A), the Secretary shall promptly certify to the Secretary of the Treasury the amount of the shortfall. Upon receipt of such a certification, the Secretary of the Treasury shall, not later than 30 days after receiving the certification, deposit in the fund, from any unobligated amounts in the Treasury, an amount equal to the amount certified by the Secretary. "(d)(1) Of the total amount recovered or collected by the Department during a fiscal year under the provisions of law referred to in subsection (b) and made available from the fund, the Secretary shall make available to each designated health care region of the Department an amount that bears the same ratio to the total amount so made available as the amount recovered or collected by such region during that fiscal year under such provisions of law bears to such totaJ amount recovered or collected during that fiscal year. The Secretary shall make available to each region the entirety of the amount specified to be made available to such region by the preceding sentence. "(2) In this subsection, the term 'designated health care regions of the Department' means the geographic areas designated by the Secretary for purposes of the management of, and allocation of resources for, health care services provided by the Department. Reports. "(e)(1) The Secretary shall submit to the Committees on Veterans' Affairs of the Senate and House of Representatives quarterly reports on the operation of this section for fiscal years 1998, 1999, and 2000 and for the first quarter of fiscal year 2001. Each such report shall specify the amount collected under each of the provisions specified in subsection (b) during the preceding quarter and the amount originally estimated to be collected under each such provision during such quarter. "(2) A report under paragraph (1) for a quarter shall be submitted not later than 45 days after the end of that quarter.
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