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111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5746 
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. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 15, 2010 
Mr. LYNCH 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. 
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’s CSRS Obligation Modification Act of 2010’’. 
SEC. 2. MODIFIED METHODOLOGY. 
Section 8348(h) of title 5, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
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‘‘(4)(A) To the extent that a determination under 
paragraph (1)(A), relating to future benefits attributable 
to civilian employment with the United States Postal Serv-
ice, is based on the first sentence of section 8339(a), such 
determination shall be made in accordance with such sen-
tence and 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) To determine the portion of an annuity at-
tributable to civilian employment with the United 
States Postal Service, the appropriate percentage to 
apply under the provisions of section 8339(a) with 
respect to such employment is, in the case of— 
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‘‘(iii) For purposes of clause (ii), the term ‘Postal 
Service Retiree Health Benefits Fund’ refers to the fund 
described in section 8909a.’’. 
SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—This Act and the amendment 
made by this Act shall take effect on the date of enactment 
of this Act. 
(b) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this Act 
shall be considered to require a redetermination with re-
spect to any fiscal year preceding the fiscal year referred 
to in section 8348(h)(4)(B)(i) of title 5, United States 
Code, as amended by this Act. 
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