{"identifier":"/us/usc/t42/s7384e","title":42,"num":"\u00a7\u202f7384e.","heading":"Establishment of Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Fund","text":"\u00a7\u202f7384e.\nEstablishment of Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Fund\n(a)\nEstablishment\nThere is hereby established on the books of the Treasury a fund to be known as the \u201cEnergy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Fund\u201d (in this subchapter referred to as the \u201ccompensation fund\u201d).\n(b)\nAmounts in compensation fund\nThe compensation fund shall consist of the following amounts:\n(1) Amounts appropriated to the compensation fund pursuant to the authorization of appropriations in\nsection 7384g(b) of this title\n(2) Amounts transferred to the compensation fund under subsection (c).\n(c)\nFinancing of compensation fund\nUpon the exhaustion of amounts in the compensation fund attributable to the authorization of appropriations in\nsection 7384g(b) of this title\n(d)\nUse of compensation fund\nSubject to subsection (e), amounts in the compensation fund shall be used to carry out the compensation program.\n(e)\nAdministrative costs not paid from compensation fund\nNo cost incurred in carrying out the compensation program, or in administering the compensation fund, shall be paid from the compensation fund or set off against or otherwise deducted from any payment to any individual under the compensation program.\n(f)\nInvestment of amounts in compensation fund\nAmounts in the compensation fund shall be invested in accordance with\nsection 9702 of title 31","url":"https://projectusc.org/usc/t42/s7384e.html","content":[{"t":"sec","id":"/us/usc/t42/s7384e","children":[{"t":"num","text":"\u00a7\u202f7384e."},{"t":"heading","text":"Establishment of Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Fund"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t42/s7384e/a","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(a)"},{"t":"heading","text":"Establishment"},{"t":"content","children":[{"t":"p","text":"There is hereby established on the books of the Treasury a fund to be known as the \u201cEnergy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Fund\u201d (in this subchapter referred to as the \u201ccompensation fund\u201d).","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t42/s7384e/b","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(b)"},{"t":"heading","text":"Amounts in compensation fund"},{"t":"chapeau","text":"The compensation fund shall consist of the following amounts:"},{"t":"para","id":"/us/usc/t42/s7384e/b/1","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(1)"},{"t":"content","text":" Amounts appropriated to the compensation fund pursuant to the authorization of appropriations in ","children":[{"t":"ref","text":"section 7384g(b) of this 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program."}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t42/s7384e/d","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(d)"},{"t":"heading","text":"Use of compensation fund"},{"t":"content","children":[{"t":"p","text":"Subject to subsection (e), amounts in the compensation fund shall be used to carry out the compensation program.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t42/s7384e/e","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(e)"},{"t":"heading","text":"Administrative costs not paid from compensation fund"},{"t":"content","children":[{"t":"p","text":"No cost incurred in carrying out the compensation program, or in administering the compensation fund, shall be paid from the compensation fund or set off against or otherwise deducted from any payment to any individual under the compensation program.","tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"subsec","id":"/us/usc/t42/s7384e/f","children":[{"t":"num","text":"(f)"},{"t":"heading","text":"Investment of amounts in compensation fund"},{"t":"content","children":[{"t":"p","text":"Amounts in the compensation fund shall be invested in accordance with ","children":[{"t":"ref","text":"section 9702 of title 31","href":"/us/usc/t31/s9702","tail":", and any interest on, and proceeds from, any such investment shall be credited to and become a part of the compensation fund."}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"}],"tail":"\n"},{"t":"text","text":"\n"}]}]}