[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: 49CFR92.23]

[Page 728]
 
                        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.  92.23  Collection.

    (a) A debt shall be collected in a lump sum or by installment 
deductions at officially established pay intervals from an employee's 
current pay account, unless the employee and the DOT operating element 
agree to alternative arrangements for payment (see Sec.  92.11(b)(9) 
describing such voluntary repayment arrangements). The alternative 
arrangement shall be in writing, signed by both the employee and the 
chief of the appropriate accounting or finance office, and shall be 
documented in the DOT operating element's files.
    (b) Under 31 U.S.C. 3716 and 4 CFR 102.3(b)(3), agencies may not 
initiate offset to collect a debt more than 10 years after the 
Government's right to collect the debt accrued, unless facts material to 
the Government's rights to collect the debt were not known by the DOT 
operating element's official or officials charged with the 
responsibility to discover and collect the debt.