effect.
(b) Strategic Restructuring Plan.--Before the Attorney
General or the Secretary obligates any resources for voluntary
separation incentive payments under this section, such official
shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a
strategic restructuring plan, which shall include--
(1) an organizational chart depicting the covered
entities after their restructuring pursuant to this
Act;
(2) a summary description of how the authority
under this section will be used to help carry out that
restructuring; and
(3) the information specified in section 663(b)(2)
of Public Law 104-208 (5 U.S.C. 5597 note).
As used in the preceding sentence, the ``appropriate committees
of Congress'' are the Committees on Appropriations, Government
Reform, and the Judiciary of the House of Representatives, and
the Committees on Appropriations, Governmental Affairs, and the
Judiciary of the Senate.
(c) Authority.--The Attorney General and the Secretary may,
to the extent necessary to help carry out their respective
strategic restructuring plan described in subsection (b), make
voluntary separation incentive payments to employees. Any such
payment--
(1) shall be paid to the employee, in a lump sum,
after the employee has separated from service;
(2) shall be paid from appropriations or funds
available for the payment of basic pay of the employee;
(3) shall be equal to the lesser of--
(A) the amount the employee would be
entitled to receive under section 5595(c) of
title 5, United States Code; or
(B) an amount not to exceed $25,000, as
determined by the Attorney General or the
Secretary;
(4) may not be made except in the case of any
qualifying employee who voluntarily separates (whether
by retirement or resignation) before the end of--
(A) the 3-month period beginning on the
date on which such payment is offered or made
available to such employee; or
(B) the 3-year period beginning on the date
of the enactment of this Act,
whichever occurs first;
(5) shall not be a basis for payment, and shall not
be included in the computation, of any other type of