An Act to provide authority for the payment of certain amounts to offset certain expenses of Federal employees assigned to duty on the California offshore islands, and for other purposes
PL 88-538 (H.R.11211), enacted 08/31/1964

78 STAT.] 
PUBLIC L
A
W 88-538-AUG. 31, 1964 
745 
Public Law 88-537 
AN ACT 
To provide for enforcement of rules and regulations for the protection, develop-
ment, and administration of the national forests and national grasslands, 
and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assemhled^ That the Act of 
June 4, 1897, as amended (30 Stat. 11, 36; 16 U.S.C. 551), second full 
paragraph, page 35, and section 32(f), title III, of the Bankhead-
Jones Farm Tenant Act, as amended (50 Stat. 526; 7 U.S.C. 1011(f)), 
are further amended by addition of the following sentence in each 
case: "Any person charged with the violation of such rules and regula-
tions may be tried and sentenced by any United States commissioner 
specially designated for that purpose by the court by which he was 
appointed, in the same manner and subject to the same conditions as 
provided for in title 18, United States Code, section 3401, subsections 
(b), (c), (d), and (e), as amended." 
Approved August 31, 1964. 
August 31, 1964 
[H. R. 7588] 
Forest and 
grasslands. 
Protection. 
62 Stat. 830. 
Public Law 88-538 
AN ACT 
To provide authority for the payment of certain amounts to offset certain 
expenses of Federal employees assigned to duty on the California oflFshore 
islands, and for other purposes. 
August 31, 1964 
[H. R. 11211] 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That, notwith-
standing section 1765 of the Revised Statutes (5 U.S.C. 70), each 
employee of the United States who is assigned to duty, other than 
temporary duty, on one of the California offshore islands shall be 
paid, in addition to compensation otherwise due him, an allowance 
of not to exceed $10 per day: Provided^ That such allowance shall be 
paid only in accordance with regulations prescribed by the President 
establishing the rates at which such allowance will be paid, and 
defining the areas and groups of positions to which such rates shall 
apply. 
SEC. 2. (a) Each employee or former employee of the Department of 
the Navy who was erroneously paid per diem in lieu of subsistence 
under section 3 of the Travel Expense Act of 1949 (5 U.S.C. 836), for 
the period he was assigned to one of the California offshore islands as 
his principal place of duty, is relieved of all liability to refund to the 
ITnited States the amounts of per diem in lieu of subsistence so paid. 
(b) The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, 
out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to the 
employee, former employee, or other appropriate party concerned, in 
accordance with law, all amounts paid by or withheld from amounts 
otherwise due an employee or former employee of the Department of 
the Navy in complete or partial satisfaction of his liability to the 
United States for which relief has been granted by section 2 of this 
Act. 
SEC. 3. In accordance with regulations issued under the first section 
of this Act, the allowance authorized by such section may be made 
retroactively effective from the date erroneous payments of per diem 
in lieu of subsistence were discontinued as a result of the decision of 
the Comptroller General of the United States dated May 4, 1964 
(B-153571). 
Approved August 31, 1964. 
California off-
shore islands. 
Federal emplo5^ 
ees. 
63 Stat. 166; 
75 Stat. 339,340. 
Appropriation. 
Effective date.