Assignment of circuit judges

Each circuit judge of the former ninth circuit who is in regular active service and whose official duty station on the day before the effective date of this Act— (1) is in California, Guam, Hawaii, or the Northern Mariana Islands shall be a circuit judge of the new ninth circuit as of that effective date; and (2) is in Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, or Washington shall be a circuit judge of the twelfth circuit as of that effective date.