---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 C.F.R. § 851.5"
title: "10"
number: "851.5"
heading: "Enforcement."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/10/851.5"
---

# §851.5. Enforcement.

- (a) **A contractor that is indemnified under section 170d.** of the AEA (or any subcontractor or supplier thereto) and that violates (or whose employee violates) any requirement of this part shall be subject to a civil penalty of up to $121,876 for each such violation. If any violation under this subsection is a continuing violation, each day of the violation shall constitute a separate violation for the purpose of computing the civil penalty.
- (b) A contractor that violates any requirement of this part may be subject to a reduction in fees or other payments under a contract with DOE, pursuant to the contract's Conditional Payment of Fee clause, or other contract clause providing for such reductions.
- (c) DOE may not penalize a contractor under both paragraphs [(a)](#a) and [(b)](#b) of this section for the same violation of a requirement of this part.
- (d) **For contractors listed in subsection d.** of [section 234A](/cfr/10/234A.md) of the AEA, [42 U.S.C. 2282a(d)](/usc/42/2282a.md?p=d), the total amount of civil penalties under [paragraph (a)](#a) and contract penalties under [paragraph (b)](#b) of this section may not exceed the total amount of fees paid by DOE to the contractor in that fiscal year.
- (e) DOE shall not penalize a contractor under both sections [234A](/cfr/10/234A.md) and [234C](/cfr/10/234C.md) of the AEA for the same violation.
- (f) DOE enforcement actions through civil penalties under [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section, start on February 9, 2007.

## Notes

### Amendments

[71 FR 6931, Feb. 9, 2006, as amended at 74 FR 66033, Dec. 14, 2009; 79 FR 20, Jan. 2, 2014; 81 FR 41795, June 28, 2016; 81 FR 96352, Dec. 30, 2016; 83 FR 1292, Jan. 11, 2018; 83 FR 66084, Dec. 26, 2018; 85 FR 831, Jan. 8, 2020; 86 FR 2956, Jan. 14, 2021; 87 FR 1064, Jan. 10, 2022; 88 FR 2194, Jan. 13, 2023; 89 FR 1029, Jan. 9, 2024; 89 FR 105407, Dec. 27, 2024]

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 2201(i)(3), (p); 42 U.S.C. 2282c; 42 U.S.C. 5801 et seq.; 42 U.S.C. 7101 et seq.; 50 U.S.C. 2401 et seq.; 28 U.S.C. 2461 note.

### Source

Source: 71 FR 6931, Feb. 9, 2006, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[71 FR 6931, Feb. 9, 2006, as amended at 74 FR 66033, Dec. 14, 2009; 79 FR 20, Jan. 2, 2014; 81 FR 41795, June 28, 2016; 81 FR 96352, Dec. 30, 2016; 83 FR 1292, Jan. 11, 2018; 83 FR 66084, Dec. 26, 2018; 85 FR 831, Jan. 8, 2020; 86 FR 2956, Jan. 14, 2021; 87 FR 1064, Jan. 10, 2022; 88 FR 2194, Jan. 13, 2023; 89 FR 1029, Jan. 9, 2024; 89 FR 105407, Dec. 27, 2024]