[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 45, Volume 2]
[Revised as of October 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 45CFR305.66]

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                        TITLE 45--PUBLIC WELFARE
 
    CHAPTER III--OFFICE OF CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT (CHILD SUPPORT 
 
PART 305_PROGRAM PERFORMANCE MEASURES, STANDARDS, FINANCIAL INCENTIVES, 
AND PENALTIES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 305.66  Notice, corrective action year, and imposition of penalty.

    (a) If a State is found by the Secretary to be subject to a penalty 
as described in Sec. 305.61 of this part, the OCSE will notify the 
State in writing of such finding.
    (b) The notice will:
    (1) Explain the deficiency or deficiencies which result in the State 
being subject to a penalty, indicate the amount of the potential 
penalty, and give reasons for the finding; and
    (2) Specify that the penalty will be assessed in accordance with the 
provisions of 45 CFR 262.1(b) through (e) and 262.7 if the State is 
found to have failed to correct the deficiency or deficiencies cited in 
the notice during the automatic corrective action year (i.e., the 
succeeding fiscal year following the year with respect to which the 
deficiency occurred.)
    (c) The penalty under Sec. 305.61 of this part will be assessed if 
the Secretary determines that the State has not corrected the deficiency 
or deficiencies cited in the notice by the end of the corrective action 
year.
    (d) Only one corrective action period is provided to a State with 
respect to a given deficiency where consecutive findings of 
noncompliance are made with respect to that deficiency. In the case of a 
State against which the penalty is assessed and which failed to correct 
the deficiency or deficiencies cited in the notice by the end of the 
corrective action year, the penalty will be effective for any quarter 
after the end of the corrective action year and ends for the first full 
quarter throughout which the State IV-D program is determined to have 
corrected the deficiency or deficiencies cited in the notice.
    (e) A consecutive finding occurs only when the State does not meet 
the same criterion or criteria cited in the notice in paragraph (a) of 
this section.

                           PART 306 [RESERVED]