; and (ii) the reasonable and necessary costs incurred by any person in providing temporary care for any individual of a covered coral reef species pending the disposition of any civil or criminal proceeding alleging a violation of subsection (b). (B) Ineligibility of government officials Any officer or employee of the United States or any State or local government who furnishes information or renders service in the performance of their official duties is ineligible to receive a reward under this paragraph. (5) Executive branch enforcement (A) Searches and seizures (i) In general Any person authorized by the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of the Treasury, or the Secretary of the Department in which the Coast Guard is operating may search for and seize any individual of a covered coral reef species taken, imported, exported, possessed, sold, purchased, delivered, carried, transported, or received in violation of subsection (b), as authorized by law. (ii) Seized covered coral reef species Each individual of a covered coral reef species seized under clause (i) shall be held by any person so authorized pending disposition of civil or criminal proceedings, or the institution of an action in rem for forfeiture of each such individual pursuant to subparagraph (C), except that the appropriate Secretary may, in lieu of holding each such individual, allow the owner or consignee to post a bond or other surety satisfactory to the appropriate Secretary, but upon forfeiture of any such property to the United States, or the abandonment or waiver of any claim to any such property, it shall be disposed of (other than by sale to the general public) by the appropriate Secretary in such a manner, consistent with the purposes of this section, as the appropriate Secretary shall by regulation prescribe. (B) Citations If any officer authorized to enforce the provisions of this section finds that a person has violated subsection (b), such officer may, in accordance with regulations jointly issued by