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PUBLIC LAW 95-000—MMMM. DD, 1978

PUBLIC LAW 95-339—AUG. 8, 1978

92 STAT. 465

(B) $1,325,000,000 reduced by the sum of (i) the principal amount of city indebtedness guaranteed under paragraphs (2)(A), (3), and (4) and outstanding on the date on which the guarantees are made under this paragraph, and (ii) the sum of the amounts, if any, covered by resolutions agreed to by the Senate or the House of Representatives pursuant to paragraphs (3) and (4), shall be available for the guarantee of city indebtedness maturing more than one year after its date of issuance. (b) The Secretary may guaraintee the payment of principal or interest, or both, on city indebtedness issued prior to January 1, 1979, and maturing prior to July 1, 1979, but only to the extent that the Secretary determines, after taking into account any commitments the employee pension funds of the city have made with respect to the purchase of city indebtedness maturing more than one year from its issuance, that the employee pension funds of the city are not able to provide sufficient amounts of seasonal financing as required under section 103(4) of this title without being considered to have failed to meet the requirements of section 401(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (as such requirements apply to such pension funds) or being 26 USC 401. considered to have engaged in a prohibited transaction described in section 503(b) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954. 26 USC 503. REMEDIES

SEC. 105. (a) The Secretary shall take such action as may be 31 USC 1525. appropriate to enforce any right accruing to the United States or any officer or agency thereof as a result of the issuance of guarantees under this title. Any sums recovered pursuant to this section shall be paid into the general fund of the Treasury. (b) The Secretary shall be entitled to recover from the boirower, or any other person liable therefor, the amount of any payment made pursuant to any guarantee agreement entered into under this title, and upon making any such payment, the Secretary shall be subrogated to all the rights of the recipient thereof. (c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary shall provide for the withholding of any payment from the United States to the city or State which may be or may become due pursuant to any law and offset the amount of such withheld payment against any claim the Secretary may have against the city or Stat« pursuant to this title. (d) The remedies prescribed in this title shall be cumulative and not in limitation of or substitution for any other remedies available to the Secretary or the United States. (e) With respect to any debt of the United States arising under this "Person." title, for the purposes of section 3466 of the Revised Statutes (31 U.S.C. 191), the term "person" includes the city and any financing agent. Notwithstanding the provisions of such section, the Secretary Waiver, is authorized to waive, wholly or partially, the priority for the United States established thereunder with respect to any indebtedness of the city or the financing agent issued after the effective date of this title (other than any indebtedness the proceeds of which are applied to the repayment prior to the stated maturity thereof of indebtedness outstanding on or before the effective date of this title owed to the lender of such proceeds) if, in his judgment such waiver is necessary to facilitate the ability of the city to meet its financing needs. No waiver under the preceding sentence shall by its terms subordinate the claims of the