§ 580j. — Injury benefits for temporary employees.
[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC580j]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 3--FORESTS; FOREST SERVICE; REFORESTATION; MANAGEMENT
SUBCHAPTER I--GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 580j. Injury benefits for temporary employees
Appropriations of the Forest Service chargeable with salaries and
wages shall be available for payment to temporary employees of the
Forest Service for loss of time due to injury in official work at rates
not in excess of those provided by subchapter I of chapter 81 of title
5, when the injured person is in need of immediate financial assistance
to avoid hardship: Provided, That such payment shall not be made for a
period in excess of fifteen days and the Secretary of Labor shall be
notified promptly of the amount so paid, which amount shall be deducted
from the amount, if any, otherwise payable by the Secretary of Labor to
the employee on account of the injury, the amount so deducted by the
Secretary of Labor to be paid to the Forest Service for deposit to the
credit of the Forest Service appropriation from which the expenditure
was made: Provided further, That when any person assisting in the
suppression of forest fires or in other emergency work under the
direction of the Forest Service, without compensation from the United
States, pursuant to the terms of a contract, agreement, or permit, is
injured in such work, the Forest Service may furnish hospitalization and
other medical care, subsistence, and lodging for a period of not to
exceed fifteen days during such disability, the cost thereof to be
payable from the appropriation applicable to the work upon which the
injury occurred, except that this proviso shall not apply when such
person is within the purview of a State or other compensation act:
Provided further, That determination by the Forest Service that payment
is allowable under this section shall be final as to payments made
hereunder, but such determination or payments with respect to employees
shall not prevent the Secretary of Labor from denying further payments
should the Secretary of Labor determine that compensation is not
properly allowable under the provisions of subchapter I of chapter 81 of
title 5.
(Apr. 24, 1950, ch. 97, Sec. 16, 64 Stat. 86.)
Codification
``Subchapter I of chapter 81 of title 5'' substituted in text for
references to the United States Employees' Compensation Act, on
authority of Pub. L. 89-554, Sec. 7(b), Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 631, the
first section of which enacted Title 5, Government Organization and
Employees.
Transfer of Functions
References to Secretary of Labor substituted in text for references
to the United States Employees' Compensation Commission. United States
Employees' Compensation Commission, created by section 28 of act Sept.
7, 1916, ch. 458, 39 Stat. 748, abolished and functions thereof
transferred to Federal Security Agency to be performed in such manner
and under such rules and regulations as Federal Security Administrator
shall prescribe, by section 3 of Reorg. Plan No. 2 of 1946. These
functions subsequently transferred to Department of Labor, to be
administered under direction and supervision of Secretary of Labor, by
section 1 of Reorg. Plan No. 19, of 1950.
Section Referred to in Other Sections
This section is referred to in section 580k of this title.
