[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 41, Volume 3]
[Revised as of July 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 41CFR105-55.001]

[Page 393]
 
           TITLE 41--PUBLIC CONTRACTS AND PROPERTY MANAGEMENT
 
              CHAPTER 105--GENERAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION
 
PART 105-55--COLLECTION OF CLAIMS OWED THE UNITED STATES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 105-55.001  Background.

    The Department of Justice and the General Accounting Office have 
jointly issued amended Federal Claims Collection Standards (4 CFR parts 
101-105) which reflect changes to the Federal Claims Collection Act of 
1966 (31 U.S.C. 3701-3719) made by the passage of the Debt Collection 
Act of 1982 (Pub. L. 97-365, 96 Stat. 1754). The preamble to the amended 
Federal Claims Collection Standards instructs individual agencies to 
adopt their own regulations as to detailed procedures in furtherance of 
the Federal Claims Collection Standards. Additionally, the Debt 
Collection Act of 1982 directs, as reflected in the Federal Claims 
Collection Standards, that each agency must prescribe regulations on 
collecting by administrative offset and that each agency may prescribe 
regulations identifying circumstances appropriate to waive collection of 
interest and charges in conformity with the Federal Claims Collection 
Standards.