UNUSED LEAVE BALANCES.

SEC. 3502. UNUSED LEAVE BALANCES. The Maritime Administrator may, subject to the availability of appropriations, make a lump-sum payment for the accumulated balance of unused annual leave, at a rate of pay that existed on the date of termination or on the day before conversion to the Civil Service, to any former employee of a United States Merchant Marine Academy nonappropriated fund instrumentality who 123 STAT. 2719 was terminated from such employment in the period September 2008 through March 2009 under authority granted by section 3506 of the Duncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2009 (Public Law 110–417; 122 Stat. 4356).