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deduction of a greater amount is necessary to effect collection within the period or anticipated period of active duty or employment. If such individual retires, resigns, or h,is employment or period of active duty is otherwise terminated before such adjustment has been completed, adjustment shall be made by decreasing subsequent payments, of whatever nature, due such person by the department, agency, or independent establishment concerned. Nothing in this section shall modify any existing law which provides for forfeiture of pay or allowances. SEC. 2. Each Secretary of a department, or head of an agency or independent establishment, as appropriate, shall prescribe regulations to carry out the purposes of this Act. Such regulations shall be approved by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget. Regulations prescribed by the Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force shall be uniform for the military services insofar as practicable. SEC. 3. (a) I n accordance with settlement procedures prescribed by the Comptroller General of the United States, the Secretary of the department concerned or the head of the agency or independent establishment concerned is authorized to charge the net amount of the unpaid and overpaid balances occurring in individual pay accounts against the appropriation for the fiscal year in which the balances occurred, and from which the amount was payable, and the net amount shall be credited to and paid from the corresponding appropriation for the next succeeding fiscal year. (b) The Act of February 9, 1946 (ch. 2, 60 Stat. 3) is repealed. SEC. 4. Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed as repealing, amending, or modifying in any way the provisions of the Act of May 22, 1928 (ch. 676, 45 Stat. 698). Approved July 15, 1954. Public Law 498
Unpaid and overpaid b a l a n c e s.
Repeal. 31 USC 634a.
10 USC 875a.
CHAPTER 510
AN ACT To amend section 12 of the Alaska Public Works Act, approved August 24, 1949 (63 Stat. 029).
Be it enacted by the Seriate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section 12 of the Alaska Public Works Act, approved August 24, 1949 (63 Stat. 629), is amended to read as follows: "SEC. 12, The authority of the Secretary under this Act to provide public works and to enter.into agreements with applicants in connection therewith shall terminate on June 30, 1959, or on the date he obligates for such purposes the total amount authorized 4;o be appropriated hereunder, whichever first occurs." Approved July 15, 1954. Public Law 499
Regulations.
July 15.1954 [H. R. 2683]
A l a s k a public works program. 48 USC 486J. Termination date.
CHAPTER 511
AN ACT To suspend for two years the duty on crude bauxite and on certain calcined bauxite and to remit the duty on certain bells to be imiwrted for addition to the carillon of The Citadel, Charleston, South Carolina.
July 15, 1954 [H. R. 2 2 2 ]
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, effective only f u^"** ^ • with respect to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for duty.'^""^^*"*°
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