[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 49, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 49CFR92.1]

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                        TITLE 49--TRANSPORTATION
 
          Subtitle A--Office of the Secretary of Transportation
 
PART 92_RECOVERING DEBTS TO THE UNITED STATES BY SALARY OFFSET--Table of Contents
 
Sec.  92.1  Purpose.

    This part implements 5 U.S.C. 5514 (Installment Deduction for 
Indebtedness to the United States), as amended by the Debt Collection 
Act of 1982 (Pub. L. 97-365, 96 Stat. 1749, 1751). It supplements 5 CFR 
part 550, subpart K, and the Federal Claims Collections Standards (4 CFR 
parts 101-105) issued jointly by the Comptroller General of the United 
States and the Attorney General of the United States under 31 U.S.C. 
3711(e)(2). It sets forth the procedures by which the Department of 
Transportation (DOT), including its operating elements (see 49 CFR 1.3):
    (a) Collects debts owed to the United States by current and former 
DOT employees;
    (b) Determines and collects interest and other charges on that 
indebtedness.
    (c) Offsets the salary of DOT employees to collect debts owed to the 
United States by those employees; and,
    (d) Obtains salary offset to collect debts owed to the United States 
by employees of other agencies under programs administered by DOT.