---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 9507"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "9507"
heading: "Streamlined demonstration project authority"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/9507"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart I — Miscellaneous"
  - "Chapter 95 — Personnel Flexibilities Relating to the Internal Revenue Service"
---

# §9507. Streamlined demonstration project authority

- (a) The exercise of any of the flexibilities under [sections 9502 through 9510](/usc/5/9502..9510.md) shall not affect the [authority](/usc/5/7103.md?p=a-6) of the Secretary of the Treasury to implement for the Internal Revenue [Service](/usc/5/8331.md?p=12) a demonstration project subject to [chapter 47](/usc/5/chptIII-sptC-ch47.md), as provided in [subsection (b)](#b).
- (b) In applying [section 4703](/usc/5/4703.md) to a demonstration project described in [section 4701(a)(4)](/usc/5/4701.md?p=a-4) which involves the Internal Revenue [Service](/usc/5/8331.md?p=12)—
  - (1) [section 4703(b)(1)](/usc/5/4703.md?p=b-1) shall be deemed to read as follows:
  - “(1) develop a plan for such project which describes its purpose, the [employees](/usc/5/5361.md?p=1) to be covered, the project itself, its anticipated outcomes, and the method of evaluating the project;”;
  - (2) [section 4703(b)(3)](/usc/5/4703.md?p=b-3) shall not apply;
  - (3) the 180-day notification period in [section 4703(b)(4)](/usc/5/4703.md?p=b-4) shall be deemed to be a notification period of 30 days;
  - (4) [section 4703(b)(6)](/usc/5/4703.md?p=b-6) shall be deemed to read as follows:
  - “(6) provides each House of Congress with the final version of the plan.”;
  - (5) [section 4703(c)(1)](/usc/5/4703.md?p=c-1) shall be deemed to read as follows:
  - “(1) subchapter V of [chapter 63](/usc/5/chptIII-sptE-ch63.md) or subpart G of part III of this title;”;
  - (6) the requirements of paragraphs [(1)(A)](/usc/5/4703.md?p=d-1-A) and [(2)](/usc/5/4703.md?p=d-2) of section 4703(d) shall not apply; and
  - (7) notwithstanding [section 4703(d)(1)(B)](/usc/5/4703.md?p=d-1-B), based on an evaluation as provided in [section 4703(h)](/usc/5/4703.md?p=h), the Office of Personnel Management and the Secretary of the Treasury, except as otherwise provided by this subsection, may waive the termination date of a demonstration project under [section 4703(d)](/usc/5/4703.md?p=d).
- (c) At least 90 days before waiving the termination date under [subsection (b)(7)](#b-7), the Office of Personnel Management shall publish in the Federal Register a notice of its intention to waive the termination date and shall inform in writing both Houses of Congress of its intention.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 105–206, title I, § 1201(a), July 22, 1998, 112 Stat. 715.)