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[CITE: 41USC256a]

 
                       TITLE 41--PUBLIC CONTRACTS
 
                    CHAPTER 4--PROCUREMENT PROCEDURES
 
                  SUBCHAPTER IV--PROCUREMENT PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 256a. Waiver of liquidated damages

    Whenever any contract made on behalf of the Government by the head 
of any Federal Agency, or by officers authorized by him so to do, 
includes a provision for liquidated damages for delay, the Secretary of 
the Treasury upon recommendation of such head is authorized and 
empowered to remit the whole or any part of such damages as in his 
discretion may be just and equitable.

(Sept. 5, 1950, ch. 849, Sec. 10(a), 64 Stat. 591; Pub. L. 104-316, 
title II, Sec. 202(u), Oct. 19, 1996, 110 Stat. 3845.)

                          Codification

    Section was not enacted as part of title III of act June 30, 1949, 
ch. 288, 63 Stat. 393, which comprises this subchapter.


                               Amendments

    1996--Pub. L. 104-316 substituted ``Secretary of the Treasury'' for 
``Comptroller General''.


                            Cross References

    Armed services contracts, remission of liquidated damages, see 
section 2312 of Title 10, Armed Forces.
