PROGRAM FRAUD CIVIL REMEDIES ACT OF 1986 (PFCRA): MODEL REGULATIONS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90G00167R001101050017-8
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 31, 2012
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: December 23, 1986
• Content Type: MEMO

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PRESIDENT'S COUNCIL on INTEGRITY & EFFICIENCY
December 23, 1986
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES
FROM: Joseph R. Wright, Jr.
Chairman, President's Count
Integrity and Efficient
SUBJECT: Program Fraud Civil Remed 's Act of 1986 (PFCRA):
As you know, the Congress enacted PFCRA on October 21, 1986,
which established an administrative remedy to Federal authorities
for fraudulent claims and statements. The statute requires each
affected Federal authority to promulgate final regulations by
April 21, 1987. The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, which
sponsored the legislation, intended.that such "regulations would
be substantially uniform throughout government." S. Rep. No. 99-
212, 99th Cong., 1st Sess. 12 (1986).
On December 1, 1986, Vice Chairman Richard P. Kusserow
distributed copies of draft model regulations to the membership
of the President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency (PCIE) for
their consideration and comment. After comments are received,
final model regulations will be distributed in January.
Except in compelling circumstances necessitated by an agency's
organizational or programmatic uniqueness, I strongly urge all
PCIE members to adopt the final model regulations in their
entirety. There are several reasons why uniform Federal
regulations would be appropriate. Since the statute has
Government-wide application, uniform regulations would encourage
consistency in agency enforcement and judicial interpretation.
It would permit administrative law judges to preside in cases
initiated by any Federal agency. It would encourage inter-agency
cooperation in developing uniform enforcement standards and
tables of penalties. Finally, the time in which to promulgate
regulations is extremely short, the final model regulations will
include all meritorious comments and will reflect the three
years' experience of HHS with their own civil monetary penalties
statute.
Again, I wish to endorse the concept of uniform regulations for
this new legislation. Since it comports with the intent of
Congress, I urge all of you to.adopt the final model regulations,
when they are distributed in January.
COPT
EAR
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