PUBLIC LAW 106-398 —APPENDIX 114 STAT. 1654A-497 (D) consideration by the Congress of the legislative proposal submitted by the President; and (4) payments from that fund should commence not later than fiscal year 2002. Subtitle A—Establishment of Compensation Program and Compensation Fund SEC. 3611. ESTABLISHMENT OF ENERGY EMPLOYEES OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESS COMPENSATION PROGRAM. (a) PROGRAM ESTABLISHED.— T here is hereby established a program to be known as the "Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program" (in this title referred to as the "compensation program"). The President shall carry out the compensation program through one or more Federal agencies or officials, as designated by the President. (b) PURPOSE OF PROGRAM. —The purpose of the compensation program is to provide for timely, uniform, and adequate compensation of covered employees and, where applicable, survivors of such employees, suffering from illnesses incurred by such employees in the performance of duty for the Department of Energy and certain of its contractors and subcontractors. (c) ELIGIBILITY FOR COMPENSATION.— The eligibility of covered employees for compensation under the compensation program shall be determined in accordance with the provisions of subtitle B as may be modified by a law enacted after the date of the submittal of the proposal for legislation required by section 3613. SEC. 3612. ESTABLISHMENT OF ENERGY EMPLOYEES OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESS COMPENSATION FUND. (a) ESTABLISHMENT. —There is hereby established on the books of the Treasury a fund to be known as the "Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Fund" (in this title referred to as the "compensation fund"). (b) AMOUNTS IN COMPENSATION FUND. —The compensation fund shall consist of the following amounts: (1) Amounts appropriated to the compensation fund pursuant to the authorization of appropriations in section 3614(b). (2) Amounts transferred to the compensation fund under subsection (c). (c) FINANCING OF COMPENSATION FUND. —Upon the exhaustion of amounts in the compensation fund attributable to the authorization of appropriations in section 3614(b), the Secretary of the Treasury shall transfer directly to the compensation fund from the General Fund of the Treasury, without further appropriation, such amounts as are further necessary to carry out the compensation program. (d) USE OF COMPENSATION FUND. —Subject to subsection (e), amounts in the compensation fund shall be used to carry out the compensation program. (e) ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS NOT PAID FROM COMPENSATION FUND.—No cost incurred in carrying out the compensation program, or in administering the compensation fund, shall be paid from the compensation fund or set off against or otherwise deducted from any pa5anent to any individual under the compensation program.
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