P.L. 94–202, Approved January 2, 1976 (89 Stat. 1135)

Sec. 8. 

(e) [42 U.S.C. 401 note]  Any persons the Board of Trustees finds necessary to employ to assist it in performing its functions under section 201(g)(4) of the Social Security Act may be appointed without regard to the civil service or classification laws, shall be compensated, while so employed at rates fixed by the Board of Trustees, but not exceeding $100 per day, and, while away from their homes or regular places of business, they may be allowed traveling expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence, as authorized by law for persons in the Government service employed intermittently.

(f) [42 U.S.C. 401 note]  The Secretary shall not make any estimates pursuant to section 201(g)(1)(A)(ii) of the Social Security Act before the Board of Trustees prescribes the method of determining costs as provided in section 201(g)(4) of such Act. The determinations pursuant to section 201(g)(1)(B) of the Social Security Act with respect to the carrying out of the functions of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare specified in section 232 of such Act, which relate to the administration of provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (other than those referred to in clause (i) of the first sentence of section 201(g)(1)(A) of the Social Security Act), during fiscal years ending before the Board of Trustees prescribes the method of making such determinations, shall be made after the Board of Trustees has prescribed such method. The Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall certify to the Managing Trustee the amounts that should be transferred from the general fund in the Treasury to the Trust Funds (as referred to in section 201(g)(1)(A) of the Social Security Act) to insure that the general fund in the Treasury bears its proper share of the costs of carrying out such functions in such fiscal years. The Managing Trustee is authorized and directed to transfer any such amounts in accordance with any certification so made.