An Act to amend section 1035 of title 10, United States Code, and other laws, to authorize members of the uniformed services who are on duty outside the United States or its possessions to deposit their savings with a uniformed service, and for other purposes
PL 89-538 (H.R.14875), enacted 08/14/1966

80 STAT. ] 
PUBLIC LAW 89-538-AUG. 14, 1966 
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Public Law 89-538 
AN ACT 
August 14, 1966 
To amend section 1035 of title 10, United States Code, and other laws, to author- 
[H. R. 14875] 
ize members of the uniformed services who are on duty outside the United 
States or its possessions to deposit their savings with a uniformed service, 
and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled., That chapter 53 of . uniformed serv. 
title 10, United States Code, is amended as follows: 
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(a,) Under ]omt regulations prescribed by the Secretaries con-
cerned, a member of the armed force w^ho is on a permanent duty 
assignment outside the United States or its possessions may deposit 
during that tour of duty not more than his unallotted current pay and 
allowances in amounts of $5 or more, w^ith any branch, office, or officer 
of a uniformed service. Amounts so deposited shall be deposited in 
the Treasury and kept as a separate fund, and shall be accounted for in 
the same manner as public funds. 
"(b) Interest at a rate prescribed by the President, not to exceed 
10 per centum a year, will accrue on amounts deposited under this 
section. However, the maximum amount upon which interest may be 
paid under this Act to any member is $10,000. Interest under this 
subsection shall terminate ninety days after the member's return to 
the United States or its possessions. 
"(c) Except as provided in joint regulations prescribed by the 
Secreta,ries concerned, payments of deposits, and interest thereon, may 
not be made to the member w^hile he is on duty outside the United States 
or its possessions. 
"(d) An amount deposited under this section, with interest thereon, 
is exempt from liability for the member's debts, including any indebt-
edness to the United States or any instrumentality thereof, and is not 
subject to forfeiture by sentence of a court-martial." 
(2) By amending the item in the analysis relating to section 1035 
to read as follows: 
"1035. Deposits of savinss." 
SEC. 2. (a) Notwithstanding the first section of this Act, an amount 
on deposit under section 1035 of title 10, United States Code, on the 
date of enactment of this Act, shall accrue interest at the rate and 
under the conditions in effect on the day before the date of enactment of 
this Act, until the member's current enlistment terminates or earlier, 
as may be jointly prescribed by the Secretaries concerned. However, 
a member who is on a permanent duty assignment outside the United 
States or its possessions on the date of enactment of this Act, or who 
reports for that duty on or after that date but before the termination 
of his current enlistment, will be entitled to interest on such deposit, 
on and after that date, at the rate and under the conditions prescribed 
pursuant to section 1. Payments of deposits, and interest thereon, 
may be made to the member's heirs or legal representative. 
(b) Any amounts deposited between May 4, 1966, and the date of 
enactment of this Act w^hile a member was assigned to permanent duty 
within the United States and its possessions, and any amounts 
deposited between May 4,1966, and the date of enactment of this Act 
by a member on permanent duty assignment outside the United States 
and its possessions which are in excess of his unallotted pay and al-
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lowances for that period, shall accrue interest at the rate in effect before 
enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 3. (a) Section 3(a) of the Act of August 10,1956, as amended 
(33 U.S.C 857a(a)), is amended by adding the following new clause: 
"(12) Section 1035, Deposits of Savings." 
(b) Section 221(a) of the Public Health Service Act, as amended 
(42 U.S.C 213a(a)), is amended by adding the following new clause: 
"(11) Section 1035, Deposits of Savings." 
(c) Regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce and the 
Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under subsections (a) 
and (b) shall be prescribed jointly with regulations prescribed by the 
Secretaries concerned under section 1035 of title 10, United States 
Code. 
Approved August 14, 1966, 11:50 a.m. 
August 19, 19 66 
[H. R. 13772] 
Public Law 89-539 
AN ACT 
To authorize the disposal of metallurgical grade manganese ore from the national 
stockpile and the supplemental stockpile. 
Metallurgical 
grade manganese. 
Disposal. 
60 Stat. 596. 
73 Stat. 607. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Adminis-
trator of General Services is hereby authorized to dispose of, by 
negotiation or otherwise, approximately one million nine hundred 
thousand short dry tons of metallurgical grade manganese ore now 
held in the national stockpile established pursuant to the Strategic and 
Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98-98h) and the supple-
mental stockpile established pursuant to section 104(b) of the Agri-
cultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954, as amended 
(7 U.S.C. 1704(b)). 
Such disposition may be made without regard to 
the provisions of section 3 of the Strategic and Critical Materials 
Stock Piling Act: Provided., That the time and method of disposition 
shall be fixed with due regard to the protection of the United States 
against avoidable loss and the protection of producers, processors, and 
consumers against avoidable disruption of their usual markets. 
Approved August 19, 1966. 
August 19, 19 66 
[H. R. 15485] 
Public Law 89-540 
AN ACT 
To authorize the exchange of certain fluorspar and ferromanganese held in the 
national and supplemental stockpiles. 
Fluorspar and 
ferromanganese. 
Disposal. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress asseinbled, That the Adminis-
trator of General Services may from time to time release to the Colo-
rado Fuel and Iron Corporation (in one or more portions, as he deems 
appropriate) the materials stored at the Pueblo, Colorado, plant of 
such corporation and described in section 2 in exchange for new mate-
rials. 
Such new materials shall be of at least the same quantity and 
quality as the materials in the portion released, and shall be provided 
by such corporation, and placed in storage at a new location at such 
plant, before the release of such portion. 
Such new location shall be 
subject to the approval of, and shall be prepared for the storage of the 
new materials in a manner satisfactory to, the Administrator of Gen-
eral Services. 
Such exchange, including the preparation of the new 
storage location and the placing of such new materials in storage.