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to federal civilian employees and to ex-servicemen pursuant to 5 U.S.C. s.8501 et seq.) other than extended benefits.

h. "Extended benefits" means benefits (including benefits payable to federal civilian employees and to ex-servicemen pursuant to 5 U.S.C. s.8501 et seq.) payable to an individual under the provisions of this act for weeks of unemployment in his eligibility period.

i. "Eligibility period" of an individual means the period consisting of the weeks in his benefit year which begin in an extended benefit period and, if his benefit year ends within the extended benefit period, any weeks thereafter which begin in the period.

j. "Exhaustee" means an individual who, with respect to any week of unemployment in his eligibility period:

(1) Has received prior to the week, all of the regular benefits that were available to him under the "unemployment compensation law" (R.S.43:21-1 et seq.) or any other State law (including dependents' allowances and benefits payable to federal civilian employees and ex- servicemen under 5 U.S.C. s.8501 et seq.) in his current benefit year that includes such week, provided, that for the purposes of this paragraph, an individual shall be deemed to have received all of the regular benefits that were available to him, although as a result of a pending appeal with respect to wages and/or employment that were not considered in the original monetary determination in his benefit year, he may subsequently be determined to be entitled to added regular benefits; or

(2) His benefit year having expired prior to such week, has no, or insufficient, wages and/or employment on the basis of which he could establish a new benefit year that would include such week; and

(3) (a) has no right to unemployment benefits or allowances, as the case may be, under the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act, the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, the Automotive Products Trade Act of 1965 and such other federal laws as are specified in regulations issued by the United States Secretary of Labor; and

(b) has not received and is not seeking unemployment benefits under the Unemployment Compensation Law of Canada; but if he is seeking these benefits and the appropriate agency finally determines that he is not entitled to benefits under that law he is considered an exhaustee if the other provisions of this definition are met.

k. "State law" means the unemployment insurance law of any state approved by the United States Secretary of Labor under section 3304 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, 26 U.S.C. s.3304.

l. "High unemployment period" means: