Ronald Joseph Favors, Jr. federal prisoner # 09800-035, appeals the district court’s denial of a motion for a downward departure or evidentiary hearing pertaining to his 1998 sentence for drug possession with intent to distribute. Favors based his claims on 18 U.S.C. § 3553(e), Fed.R.Cbim.P. 35, U.S.S.G. §§ 5K1.1 & 5K2.0, and Wade v. United States, 504 U.S. 181, 186, 112 S.Ct. 1840, 118 L.Ed.2d 524 (1992), and he contended that he was entitled to a sentence reduction because he rendered substantial assistance to the Government.

The statutes and Guidelines cited by Favors do not apply. Some require a government motion that is lacking in this case. See § 3553(e); Rule 35(b); § 5K1.1. Another does not pertain to a downward departure for substantial assistance. See § 5K2.0.

Wade likewise provides no legal basis for Favors’s claim. The Government has “a power, not a duty, to file a motion when a defendant has substantially assisted.” Wade, 504 U.S. at 185, 112 S.Ct. 1840. Moreover, “a claim that a defendant merely provided substantial assistance will not entitle a defendant to a remedy or even to *801 discovery or an evidentiary hearing. Nor would additional but generalized allegations of improper motive.” Id. at 186, 112 S.Ct. 1840. The district court’s judgment is AFFIRMED.