5 U.S.C. § 5304a : US Code - Section 5304A: Authority to fix an alternative level of comparability payments

Search 5 U.S.C. § 5304a : US Code - Section 5304A: Authority to fix an alternative level of comparability payments

(a) If, because of national emergency or serious economic
conditions affecting the general welfare, the President should
consider the level of comparability payments which would otherwise
be payable under section 5304 in any year to be inappropriate, the
President shall - 
(1) prepare and transmit to Congress, at least 1 month before
those comparability payments (disregarding this section) would
otherwise become payable, a report describing the alternative
level of payments which the President instead intends to provide,
including the reasons why such alternative level is considered
necessary; and
(2) implement the alternative level of payments beginning on
the same date as would otherwise apply, for the year involved,
under section 5304.
(b) The requirements set forth in paragraphs (2) and (3),
respectively, of section 5303(b) shall apply with respect to any
decision to exercise any authority to fix an alternative level of
comparability payments under this section.