5 U.S.C. § 5304a - U.S. Code - Unannotated Title 5. Government Organization and Employees § 5304a. Authority to fix an alternative level of comparability payments

(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.