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‘‘(1) knowingly makes any false statement, false 
representation, or false report as to the character, 
quality, quantity, or cost of the material used or to 
be used, or the quantity or quality of the work per-
formed or to be performed, or the costs thereof in 
connection with the submission of plans, maps, spec-
ifications, contracts, or costs of construction of any 
highway or related project submitted for approval to 
the Secretary of Transportation; 
‘‘(2) knowingly makes any false statement, false 
representation, false report, or false claim with re-
spect to the character, quality, quantity, or cost of 
any work performed or to be performed, or materials 
furnished or to be furnished, in connection with the 
construction of any highway or related project ap-
proved by the Secretary of Transportation; or 
‘‘(3) knowingly makes any false statement or 
false representation as to a material fact in any 
statement, certificate, or report submitted pursuant 
to the Federal-Aid Road Act approved July 11, 1916 
(39 Stat. 355), as amended and supplemented; 
shall be imprisoned not more than five years. 
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‘‘§ 782. False statements and concealment of facts in 
relation to documents required by the 
Employee Retirement Income Security 
Act of 1974 
‘‘Whoever, in any document required by title I of the 
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to be 
published, or kept as part of the records of any employee 
welfare benefit plan or employee pension benefit plan, or 
certified to the administrator of any such plan, makes any 
false statement or representation of fact, knowing it to 
be false, or knowingly conceals, covers up, or fails to dis-
close any fact the disclosure of which is required by such 
title or is necessary to verify, explain, clarify or check for 
accuracy and completeness any report required by such 
title to be published or any information required by such 
title to be certified, shall be imprisoned not more than five 
years. 
‘‘§ 783. Fraud and related activity in connection with 
identification documents, authentication 
features, and information 
‘‘(a) OFFENSE.—Whoever, as made applicable by 
subsection (c)— 
‘‘(1) knowingly and without lawful authority 
produces an identification document, authentication 
feature, or a false identification document; 
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‘‘(2) knowingly transfers an identification docu-
ment, authentication feature, or a false identification 
document knowing that such document or feature 
was stolen or produced without lawful authority; 
‘‘(3) knowingly possesses with intent to use un-
lawfully or transfer unlawfully five or more identi-
fication documents (other than those issued lawfully 
for the use of the possessor), authentication fea-
tures, or false identification documents; 
‘‘(4) knowingly possesses an identification docu-
ment (other than one issued lawfully for the use of 
the possessor), authentication feature, or a false 
identification document, with the intent such docu-
ment or feature be used to defraud the United 
States; 
‘‘(5) knowingly produces, transfers, or possesses 
a document-making implement or authentication fea-
ture with the intent such document-making imple-
ment or authentication feature will be used in the 
production of a false identification document or an-
other document-making implement or authentication 
feature which will be so used; 
‘‘(6) knowingly possesses an identification docu-
ment or authentication feature that is or appears to 
be an identification document or authentication fea-
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ture of the United States or a sponsoring entity of 
an event designated as a special event of national 
significance which is stolen or produced without law-
ful authority knowing that such document or feature 
was stolen or produced without such authority; 
‘‘(7) knowingly transfers, possesses, or uses, 
without lawful authority, a means of identification of 
another person with the intent to commit, or to aid 
or abet, or in connection with, any unlawful activity 
that constitutes a violation of Federal law, or that 
constitutes a felony under any applicable State or 
local law; or 
‘‘(8) knowingly traffics in false or actual au-
thentication features for use in false identification 
documents, document-making implements, or means 
of identification; 
shall be punished as provided in subsection (b). 
‘‘(b) PUNISHMENT.—The punishment for an offense 
under subsection (a) of this section is— 
‘‘(1) except as provided in paragraphs (3) and 
(4), a fine under this title or imprisonment for not 
more than 15 years, or both, if the offense is— 
‘‘(A) the production or transfer of an iden-
tification document, authentication feature, or 
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false identification document that is or appears 
to be— 
‘‘(i) an identification document or au-
thentication feature issued by or under the 
authority of the United States; or 
‘‘(ii) a birth certificate, or a driver’s 
license or personal identification card; 
‘‘(B) the production or transfer of more 
than five identification documents, authentica-
tion features, or false identification documents; 
‘‘(C) an offense under paragraph (5) of 
such subsection; or 
‘‘(D) an offense under paragraph (7) of 
such subsection that involves the transfer, pos-
session, or use of 1 or more means of identifica-
tion if, as a result of the offense, any individual 
committing the offense obtains anything of 
value aggregating $1,000 or more during any 1- 
year period; 
‘‘(2) except as provided in paragraphs (3) and 
(4), a fine under this title or imprisonment for not 
more than 5 years, or both, if the offense is— 
‘‘(A) any other production, transfer, or use 
of a means of identification, an identification 
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document, authentication feature, or a false 
identification document; or 
‘‘(B) an offense under paragraph (3) or 
(7) of such subsection; 
‘‘(3) a fine under this title or imprisonment for 
not more than 20 years, or both, if the offense is 
committed— 
‘‘(A) to facilitate a drug trafficking crime 
(as defined in section 592(a)(2)); 
‘‘(B) in connection with a crime of violence 
(as defined in section 584(c)(3)); or 
‘‘(C) after a prior conviction under this 
section becomes final; 
‘‘(4) a fine under this title or imprisonment for 
not more than 30 years, or both, if the offense is 
committed to facilitate an act of domestic terrorism 
(as defined under section 283) or an act of inter-
national terrorism (as defined in section 283(1)); 
and 
‘‘(5) a fine under this title or imprisonment for 
not more than one year, or both, in any other case. 
‘‘(c) APPLICABILITY.—Subsection (a) applies if— 
‘‘(1) the identification document, authentication 
feature, or false identification document is or ap-
pears to be issued by or under the authority of the 
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United States or a sponsoring entity of an event des-
ignated as a special event of national significance or 
the document-making implement is designed or suit-
ed for making such an identification document, au-
thentication feature, or false identification docu-
ment; 
‘‘(2) the offense is an offense under subsection 
(a)(4) of this section; or 
‘‘(3) either— 
‘‘(A) the production, transfer, possession, 
or use prohibited by this section is in or affects 
interstate or foreign commerce, including the 
transfer of a document by electronic means; or 
‘‘(B) the means of identification, identifica-
tion document, false identification document, or 
document-making implement is transported in 
the mail in the course of the production, trans-
fer, possession, or use prohibited by this sec-
tion. 
‘‘(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section and section 
784— 
‘‘(1) the term ‘authentication feature’ means 
any hologram, watermark, certification, symbol, 
code, image, sequence of numbers or letters, or other 
feature that either individually or in combination 
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with another feature is used by the issuing authority 
on an identification document, document-making im-
plement, or means of identification to determine if 
the document is counterfeit, altered, or otherwise 
falsified; 
‘‘(2) the term ‘document-making implement’ 
means any implement, impression, template, com-
puter file, computer disc, electronic device, or com-
puter hardware or software, that is specifically con-
figured or primarily used for making an identifica-
tion document, a false identification document, or 
another document-making implement; 
‘‘(3) the term ‘identification document’ means a 
document made or issued by or under the authority 
of the United States Government, a State, political 
subdivision of a State, or a sponsoring entity of an 
event designated as a special event of national sig-
nificance, a foreign government, political subdivision 
of a foreign government, an international govern-
mental or an international quasi-governmental orga-
nization which, when completed with information 
concerning a particular individual, is of a type in-
tended or commonly accepted for the purpose of 
identification of individuals; 
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‘‘(B) has moved in, is part of, or con-
stitutes interstate or foreign commerce; and 
‘‘(C) has been obtained with a counterfeit, 
fictitious, altered, forged, lost, stolen, or fraud-
ulently obtained credit card; 
‘‘(5) knowingly receives, conceals, uses, sells, or 
transports in interstate or foreign commerce one or 
more tickets for interstate or foreign transportation, 
which— 
‘‘(A) within any one-year period have a 
value aggregating $500 or more, and 
‘‘(B) have been purchased or obtained with 
one or more counterfeit, fictitious, altered, 
forged, lost, stolen, or fraudulently obtained 
credit cards; or 
‘‘(6) in a transaction affecting interstate or for-
eign commerce furnishes money, property, services, 
or anything else of value, which within any one-year 
period has a value aggregating $1,000 or more, 
through the use of any counterfeit, fictitious, al-
tered, forged, lost, stolen, or fraudulently obtained 
credit card knowing the same to be counterfeit, ficti-
tious, altered, forged, lost, stolen, or fraudulently ob-
tained; 
shall be imprisoned not more than ten years. 
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