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112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3174 
To amend the provisions of title 5, United States Code, relating to the 
methodology for calculating the amount of any Postal surplus or supple-
mental liability under the Civil Service Retirement System, and for other 
purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 12, 2011 
Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi introduced the following bill; which was referred 
to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 
A BILL 
To amend the provisions of title 5, United States Code, 
relating to the methodology for calculating the amount 
of any Postal surplus or supplemental liability under 
the Civil Service Retirement System, and for other pur-
poses. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘United States Postal 
Service Pension Obligation Recalculation and Restoration 
Act of 2011’’. 
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SEC. 2. MODIFIED METHODOLOGY. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 8348(h) of title 5, United 
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(4)(A) To the extent that a determination under 
paragraph (1), relating to benefits attributable to civilian 
employment with the United States Postal Service, is 
based on any provision of law described in subparagraph 
(C), such determination shall be made in accordance with 
such provision and any otherwise applicable provisions of 
law, subject to the following: 
‘‘(i) The ‘average pay’ used in the case of any 
individual shall be a single amount, determined in 
accordance with section 8331(4), taking into account 
the rates of basic pay in effect for such individual 
during the periods of creditable service performed by 
such individual. Nothing in this subsection shall be 
considered to permit or require— 
‘‘(I) one determination of average pay with 
respect to service performed with the United 
States Postal Service; and 
‘‘(II) a separate determination of average 
pay with respect to service performed with its 
predecessor entity in function. 
‘‘(ii) In determining the portion of an annuity 
attributable to civilian employment with the United 
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States Postal Service, with respect to any period of 
employment with the United States Postal Service 
that follows any other period of employment cred-
itable under section 8332 (without regard to whether 
such employment was with an entity referred to in 
clause (i)(II)), the total service of an employee for 
purposes of any provision of law described in sub-
paragraph (C) shall be the sum of— 
‘‘(I) any period of employment with the 
United States Postal Service; and 
‘‘(II) any period of employment creditable 
under section 8332 that precedes the period de-
scribed in subclause (I). 
‘‘(B)(i) Not later than 6 months after the date of en-
actment of this paragraph, the Office shall determine (or, 
if applicable, redetermine) the amount of the Postal sur-
plus or supplemental liability as of the close of the fiscal 
year most recently ending before such date of enactment, 
in conformance with the methodology required under sub-
paragraph (A). 
‘‘(ii)(I) If the result of the determination or redeter-
mination under clause (i) is a surplus, the Office shall 
transfer the amount of such surplus to the Postal Service 
Retiree Health Benefits Fund not later than 15 days after 
the date of such determination or redetermination. 
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