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PUBLIC LAW 97-000—MMMM. DD, 1982

96 STAT. 1050

PUBLIC LAW 97-258—SEPT. 13, 1982

§9501. Purpose The purpose of this chapter is to protect the interests of the United States and of the participants and their beneficiaries in Government pension plans by requiring complete disclosure of the financial condition of those plans. §9502. Definitions In this chapter— (1) "Government pension plan"— (A) means a pension, annuity, retirement, or similar plan (except a plan covered under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (29 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.) or a plan or program financed by contributions required under chapter 21 or 22 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 (26 U.S.C. 3101 et seq., 3201 et seq.)) established or maintained by an agency, for any of its officers or employees, regardless of the number of participants covered by the plan; and (B) includes— (i) the Civil Service Retirement System. (ii) the Coast Guard Retirement System. (iii) the Commissioned Corps of the Public Health Service Retirement System. (iv) the Farm Credit District Retirement Plans. (v) the Federal Home Loan Bank Board Retirement Systems. (vi) the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation Plan. (vii) the Federal Reserve Employees Retirement Plans. (viii) the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability System. (ix) judicial plans. (x) the Military Retirement System. (xi) the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Retirement System. (xii) nonappropriated fund plans. (xiii) the Tennessee Valley Authority Retirement System. (2) "plan year" means the calendar, policy, or fiscal year chosen by the Government pension plan on which the records of the plan are kept. § 9503. Reports about Government pension plans (a) A Government pension plan is subject to section 103 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (29 U.S.C. 1023) in the same way that an employee pension benefit plan is subject to section 103. However, section 103 applies to a Government pension plan for officers or employees of the Central Intelligence Agency only if the President specifically approves application of the requirements of section 103 in writing. In applying section 103 to a Government pension plan— (1) the annual report shall be— (A) in the form and include information the President, in consultation with the Comptroller General, prescribes or, if the pension plan is referred to in section 9502(1)(B) (iv)-(vii) or (ix) of this title, the Comptroller General prescribes; and