[Code of Federal Regulations] [Title 10, Volume 1] [Revised as of January 1, 2001] From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access [CITE: 10CFR15.45] [Page 293] TITLE 10--ENERGY CHAPTER I--NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION PART 15--DEBT COLLECTION PROCEDURES--Table of Contents Subpart C--Compromise of a Claim Sec. 15.45 Restrictions on the compromise of a claim. (a) The NRC may not accept a percentage of a debtor's profits nor stock in a debtor corporation in compromise of a claim. In negotiating a compromise with a business concern, consideration is given to requiring a waiver of the tax-loss-carry-forward and tax-loss-carry-back rights of the debtor. (b) If two or more debtors are jointly and severally liable, collection action is not withheld against one debtor until the other or others pay their proportionate share. The amount of a compromise with one debtor is not considered a precedent or as morally binding in determining the amount which will be required from other debtors jointly and severally liable on the claim. [47 FR 7616, Feb. 22, 1982, as amended at 55 FR 32380, Aug. 9, 1990]