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[CITE: 5USC4512]

 
             TITLE 5--GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
 
                           PART III--EMPLOYEES
 
                     Subpart C--Employee Performance
 
                      CHAPTER 45--INCENTIVE AWARDS
 
           SUBCHAPTER II--AWARDS FOR COST SAVINGS DISCLOSURES
 
Sec. 4512. Agency awards for cost savings disclosures

    (a) The Inspector General of an agency, or any other agency employee 
designated under subsection (b), may pay a cash award to any employee of 
such agency whose disclosure of fraud, waste, or mismanagement to the 
Inspector General of the agency, or to such other designated agency 
employee, has resulted in cost savings for the agency. The amount of an 
award under this section may not exceed the lesser of--
        (1) $10,000; or
        (2) an amount equal to 1 percent of the agency's cost savings 
    which the Inspector General, or other employee designated under 
    subsection (b), determines to be the total savings attributable to 
    the employee's disclosure.

For purposes of paragraph (2), the Inspector General or other designated 
employee may take into account agency cost savings projected for 
subsequent fiscal years which will be attributable to such disclosure.
    (b) In the case of an agency for which there is no Inspector 
General, the head of the agency shall designate an agency employee who 
shall have the authority to make the determinations and grant the awards 
permitted under this section.

(Added Pub. L. 97-35, title XVII, Sec. 1703(a), Aug. 13, 1981, 95 Stat. 
755; amended Pub. L. 99-145, title XII, Sec. 1225(b)(2), Nov. 8, 1985, 
99 Stat. 730.)


                               Amendments

    1985--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 99-145 struck out subsec. (c) which 
provided that the Inspector General, or other employee designated under 
subsection (b), shall submit to the Comptroller General documentation 
substantiating any award made under this section and that the 
Comptroller General shall, from time to time, review awards made under 
this section and procedures used in making such awards to verify the 
cost savings for which the awards were made.
