[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 44, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 44CFR11.36]

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              TITLE 44--EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND ASSISTANCE
 
             CHAPTER I--FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY
 
PART 11--CLAIMS--Table of Contents
 
    Subpart C--Collection of Debts by the Government Under the Debt 
                         Collection Act of 1982
 
Sec. 11.36  Debt collection files.

    Each DCO is responsible for obtaining current credit data about each 
person against whom a debt is pending in his office. The files shall be 
kept up-to-date by the ACO for claims referred to his/her office for 
collection. Such credit data may take the form of:
    (a) A commercial credit report, showing the debtor's assets and 
liabilities and his income and expenses,
    (b) The individual debtor's own financial statement, executed under 
penalty for false claim, reflecting his assets and liabilities and his 
income and expenses, or
    (c) An audited balance sheet of a corporate debtor.

The file should also contain a checklist or brief summary of action 
taken to collect or compromise a debt. All debts files relating to debts 
owed by individuals are to be safeguarded in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 
552a, popularly known as the ``Privacy Act of 1974''; 31 U.S.C. 3711 et 
seq., popularly known at the ``Debt Collection Act of 1982''; 44 CFR 
part 6 and this subpart. Each DCO is responsible for maintaining files 
on debtors with information sufficient to enable the Government to 
effectuate administrative or judicial collection.

(Approved by the Office of Management and Budget under control number 
3067-0122)

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