112 STAT. 2681-543 PUBLIC LAW 105-277—OCT. 21, 1998 SEC. 102, For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933, as amended (16 U.S.C. ch. 12A), including hire, maintenance, and operation of aircraft, and purchase and hire of passenger motor vehicles, $50,000,000 is hereby appropriated: Provided, That use of the ftinds provided herein is limited to the purposes for.which funds were provided under this heading in Public Law 105-62: Provided further, That of the amounts appropriated under this section, $7,000,000 shall be available for operation, maintenance, surveillance, and improvement of Land Between the Lakes. SEC. 103. REPURCHASE OF BONDS BY THE TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY, (a) REPURCHASE.— Notwithstanding any other provision of law or any term contained in any bond issued by the Tennessee Vsdley Authority to the Federal Financing Bank— (1) subject to subsection (b), the Tennessee Valley Authority shall have the right to repurchase all such bonds by payment of the principal amount of the bonds plus interest to the date of repurchase; (2) the Federal Financing Bank shall not require pa3anent from the Tennessee Valley Authority of any additional amount in connection with the repurchase; and (3) there is hereby appropriated to the Federal Financing Bank such amounts as may be necessary to pay the difference between (1) the amount that the Tennessee Valley Authority f)aid to the Federal Financing Bank to prepay its outstanding oans from the Federal Financing Bank under this section and (2) the amount that the Federal Financing Bank would have received otherwise. (b) No FURTHER FINANCING.— Notwithstanding any other law, after the date of repurchase of bonds under subsection (a), the Tennessee Valley Authority shall not be entitled or permitted to obtain financing from the Federal Financing Bank. (c) USE OF SAVINGS.— (1) IN GENERAL.— From non-appropriated ftinds, beginning on the date of repurchase of bonds and ending on the date on which the bonds would have matured but for this section, amounts that, as determined under paragraph (2), are equivalent to amounts that the Tennessee Valley Authority saves as a result of the repurchase of bonds shall be used to reduce debt of the Tennessee Valley Authority. (2) DETERMINATION OF AMOUNT OF SAVINGS.— On each date on which a payment of interest would have been made on a repurchased bond if the bond had not been repurchased, the Tennessee Valley Authority shall be considered to realize a saving in the amount of the difference between— (A) the amount of interest that would have been due at the rate of interest specified in the bond; and (B) the amount of interest that would have been due if the rate of interest specified in the bond had been the yield to maturity of a marketable public obligation of the United States with a maturity of 10 years as of September 30, 1997. SEC. 104. Section 312 of Public Law 105-245, the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1999, is repealed. SEC. 105. An additional amount of $35,000,000, to remain available until expended, for Department of Defense—Civil, Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers—Civil, "Construction, General",
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