### Question
What does significant mean?


### Answer
**Significant** has the following meaning in *31 U.S.C. § 3352*:

> that, in the preceding fiscal year, the sum of a program or activity's improper payments and payments whose propriety cannot be determined by the executive agency due to lacking or insufficient documentation may have exceeded—


(i) $10,000,000 of all reported program or activity payments of the executive agency made during that fiscal year and 1.5 percent of program outlays

#### Citation:
  - *31 U.S.C. § 3352*
  - Heading: **SUBTITLE III-FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT > CHAPTER 33-DEPOSITING, KEEPING, AND PAYING MONEY > SUBCHAPTER IV-IMPROPER PAYMENTS**

