---
kind: "section"
citation: "6 U.S.C. § 795"
title: "6"
title_heading: "Domestic Security"
number: "795"
heading: "Fraud, waste, and abuse controls"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/6/795"
units:
  - "Chapter 2 — National Emergency Management"
  - "Subchapter II — Comprehensive Preparedness System"
  - "Part D — Prevention of Fraud, Waste, and Abuse"
---

# §795. Fraud, waste, and abuse controls

- (a) **In general—** The [Administrator](/usc/6/821.md?p=1) shall ensure that—
  - (1) all programs within the [Agency](/usc/6/671.md?p=1) administering Federal disaster relief assistance develop and maintain proper internal management controls to prevent and detect fraud, waste, and abuse;
  - (2) application databases used by the [Agency](/usc/6/671.md?p=1) to collect information on eligible recipients must record disbursements;
  - (3) such tracking is designed to highlight and identify ineligible applications; and
  - (4) the databases used to collect information from applications for such assistance must be integrated with disbursements and payment records.
- (b) **Audits and reviews required—** The [Administrator](/usc/6/821.md?p=1) shall ensure that any database or similar application processing system for Federal disaster relief assistance programs administered by the [Agency](/usc/6/671.md?p=1) undergoes a review by the Inspector General of the [Agency](/usc/6/671.md?p=1) to determine the existence and implementation of such internal controls required under this section and the amendments made by this section.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–295, title VI, § 696, Oct. 4, 2006, 120 Stat. 1460.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

For the amendments made by this section, referred to in subsec. (b), see Codification note below.

### Codification

Section is comprised of section 696 of Pub. L. 109–295. Subsec. (c) of section 696 of Pub. L. 109–295 amended section 5174 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare.