§ 3731.
(c)
Designation of funds of Department of Defense or any other department or agency of United States to carry out purposes of this subsection
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds appropriated (for any fiscal year beginning after September 30, 1979) to or for the use of the Department of Defense, or to any other department or agency of the United States as may be designated by the President to carry out the purposes of this subsection, shall be available for—
(1)
conducting the educational and health care activities, including kindergartens and college, carried out by the Canal Zone Government and the Panama Canal Company before October 1, 1979, and
(2)
providing the services related thereto to the categories of persons to which such services were provided before October 1, 1979.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Department of Defense, or any department or agency designated by the President to provide health care services to those categories of persons referred to in this subsection, shall provide such services to such categories of persons on a basis no less favorable than that applied to its own employees and their dependents.
(d)
Reimbursement to departments or agencies furnishing services
Amounts expended for furnishing services referred to in subsection (c) of this section to persons eligible to receive them, less amounts payable by such persons, shall be fully reimbursable to the department or agency furnishing the services, except to the extent that such expenditures are the responsibility of that department or agency. The funds of the Commission shall be available for such reimbursements on behalf of—
(1)
employees of the Commission, and
(2)
other persons authorized to receive such services who are eligible to receive them pursuant to the Panama Canal Treaty of 1977 and related agreements.
The appropriations or funds of any other department or agency of the United States conducting operations in the Republic of Panama, including the Smithsonian Institution, shall be available for reimbursements on behalf of employees of such department or agency and their dependents.
(e)
Repealed. [Pub. L. 105–261, div. C, title XXXV, § 3507(a)], Oct. 17, 1998, [112 Stat. 2269]
([Pub. L. 96–70, title I, § 1321], Sept. 27, 1979, [93 Stat. 480]; [Pub. L. 99–223, § 5(c)], Dec. 28, 1985, [99 Stat. 1739]; [Pub. L. 100–705, § 8], Nov. 19, 1988, [102 Stat. 4686]; [Pub. L. 102–484, div. C, title XXXV, § 3512], Oct. 23, 1992, [106 Stat. 2655]; [Pub. L. 103–337, div. C, title XXXVI, § 3604], Oct. 5, 1994, [108 Stat. 3112]; [Pub. L. 104–106, div. C, title XXXV, § 3529(3)], Feb. 10, 1996, [110 Stat. 642]; [Pub. L. 104–201, div. C, title XXXV, § 3542], Sept. 23, 1996, [110 Stat. 2867]; [Pub. L. 105–85, div. C, title XXXV], §§ 3525(b), 3550(d)(2)(A), (B), Nov. 18, 1997, [111 Stat. 2066], 2074; [Pub. L. 105–261, div. C, title XXXV, § 3507(a)], Oct. 17, 1998, [112 Stat. 2269].)