[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: 10CFR16.3]

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                            TITLE 10--ENERGY
 
                CHAPTER I--NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
 
PART 16--SALARY OFFSET PROCEDURES FOR COLLECTING DEBTS OWED BY FEDERAL EMPLOYEES TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 16.3  Definitions.

    For the purposes of this part, the following definitions apply:
    Administrative charges are those amounts assessed by NRC to cover 
the costs of processing and handling delinquent debts due the 
Government.
    Administrative offset means withholding money payable by the United 
States Government to, or held by the

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Government for, a person to satisfy a debt the person owes the United 
States Government.
    Agency means an executive agency as is defined at 5 U.S.C. 105 
including the U.S. Postal Service, the U.S. Postal Rate Commission, a 
military department as defined at 5 U.S.C. 102, an agency or court in 
the judicial branch, an agency of the legislative branch including the 
U.S. Senate and House of Representatives and other independent 
establishments that are entities of the Federal Government.
    Creditor agency means the agency to which a debt is owed.
    Debt means an amount that has been determined by an appropriate NRC 
official or an appropriate official of another agency to be owed to the 
United States from sources which include loans insured or guaranteed by 
the United States and all other amounts due the United States from fees, 
leases, rents, royalties, services, sales of real or personal property, 
overpayments, penalties, damages, interests, fines, forfeitures (except 
those arising under the Uniform Code of Military Justice), and all other 
similar sources.
    Disposable pay means the amount that remains from an employee's 
current basic pay, special pay, incentive pay, retired pay, retainer 
pay, or in the case of an employee not entitled to basic pay, other 
authorized pay after required deductions for social security; Federal, 
state or local income taxes; health insurance premiums; retirement 
contributions; life insurance premiums; Federal employment taxes; and 
any other deductions that are required to be withheld by law. Deductions 
described in 5 CFR 581.105 (b) through (f) are excluded when determining 
disposable pay subject to salary offset.
    Employee means a current employee of an agency, including a current 
member of the Armed Forces or a Reserve of the Armed Forces (Reserves).
    FCCS means the Federal Claims Collection Standards jointly published 
by the Justice Department and the General Accounting Office at 4 CFR 
parts 101-105.
    Hearing official means an individual responsible for conducting any 
hearing with respect to the existence or amount of a debt claimed or the 
repayment schedule if not established by written agreement between the 
employee and the NRC, and who renders a decision on the basis of this 
hearing.
    Paying agency means the agency that employs the individual who owes 
the debt and authorizes the payment of his/her current pay.
    Salary offset means an administrative offset to collect a debt under 
5 U.S.C. 5514 by deduction(s) at one or more officially established pay 
intervals from the current pay account of an employee without his or her 
consent.
    Waiver means the cancellation, remission, forgiveness, or non-
recovery of a debt allegedly owed by an employee to an agency as 
permitted or required by 5 U.S.C. 5584, 10 U.S.C. 2774, 32 U.S.C. 716, 5 
U.S.C. 8346(b), or any other law.