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1986	Benefits Administration Letter

Number: 96-105	Date: August 9, 1996

SUBJECT	Regulations and Guidance Implementing Public Law 104-106, The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996

This letter is to inform you about the publication of regulations and a Benefits Administration Letter providing guidance on the implementation of Public Law 104-106, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996, approved February 10, 1996, affecting certain employees Government-wide who have performed service with a nonappropriated fund instrumentality (NAFI). [See BAL 96-102 for specific information about the provisions of Public Law 104-106.]

Regulations were published in Part 5 of the Federal Register on August 9, 1996. Those regulations will be posted on OPM Mainstreet in the Retirement and Insurance forum. A Benefits Administration Letter detailing the rights and responsibilities of employees and the responsibilities and procedures to be followed by agencies in implementing the law will be published in a few days. Due to length of the BAL, it will not be faxed. The BAL will be posted on OPM Mainstreet and a notice of its publications will be faxed to agency benefits officers. In addition, printed copies of the BAL will be available at the August 21, 1996, Benefits Officers IAG meeting. We will mail copies of the BAL to those agency benefits officers who are unable to attend the meeting.

Mary M. Sugar, Chief

Agency Services Division