An Act to amend section 12 of the Alaska Public Weeks Act, approved August 24, 1949 (63 Stat. 629)
PL 83-498 (H.R.2683), enacted 07/15/1954

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PUBLIC LAW 499-JULY 15, 1954 
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deduction of a greater amount is necessary to effect collection within 
the period or anticipated period of active duty or employment. 
If 
such individual retires, resigns, or h,is employment or period of active 
duty is otherwise terminated before such adjustment has been com-
pleted, adjustment shall be made by decreasing subsequent payments, 
of whatever nature, due such person by the department, agency, or 
independent establishment concerned. Nothing in this section shall 
modify any existing law which provides for forfeiture of pay or 
allowances. 
SEC. 2. Each Secretary of a department, or head of an agency or 
independent establishment, as appropriate, shall prescribe regula-
tions to carry out the purposes of this Act. Such regulations shall be 
approved by the Director of the Bureau of the Budget. 
Regulations 
prescribed by the Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force shall 
be uniform for the military services insofar as practicable. 
SEC. 3. (a) In accordance with settlement procedures prescribed by 
the Comptroller General of the United States, the Secretary of the 
department concerned or the head of the agency or independent 
establishment concerned is authorized to charge the net amount of 
the unpaid and overpaid balances occurring in individual pay accounts 
against the appropriation for the fiscal year in which the balances 
occurred, and from which the amount was payable, and the net amount 
shall be credited to and paid from the corresponding appropriation 
for the next succeeding fiscal year. 
(b) The Act of February 9,1946 (ch. 2, 60 Stat. 3) is repealed. 
SEC. 4. Nothing contained in this Act shall be construed as repeal-
ing, amending, or modifying in any way the provisions of the Act of 
May 22, 1928 (ch. 676, 45 Stat. 698). 
Approved July 15, 1954. 
Regulations. 
Unpaid and over-
paid balances. 
Repeal. 
31 u s e 634a. 
10 u s e 875a. 
Public Law 498 
CHAPTER 510 
AN ACT 
July 15.1954 
To amend section 12 of the Alaska Public Works Act, approved August 24, 1949 
[H. R. 2683] 
(63 Stat. 029). 
Be it enacted hy the Seriate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United 
States 
of America 
in Congress assembled, 
That section 
12 of the Alaska Public Works Act, approved August 24, 1949 (63 
Stat. 629), is amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 12, The authority of the Secretary under this Act to provide 
public works and to enter .into agreements with applicants in connec-
tion therewith shall terminate on June 30, 1959, or on the date he 
obligates for such purposes the total amount authorized 4;o be appro-
priated hereunder, whichever first occurs." 
Approved July 15, 1954. 
A l a s k a public 
works program. 
48 u s e 486J. 
T e r m i n a t i o n 
date. 
Public Law 499 
CHAPTER 511 
AN ACT 
To suspend for two years the duty on crude bauxite and on certain calcined 
bauxite and to remit the duty on certain bells to be imiwrted for addition to 
the carillon of The Citadel, Charleston, South Carolina. 
July 15,1954 
[H. R.222] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled, That, effective only 
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with respect to articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for duty.'^""^^*"*°