[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 10, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 10CFR15.2]

[Page 289-290]
 
                            TITLE 10--ENERGY
 
                CHAPTER I--NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
 
PART 15_DEBT COLLECTION PROCEDURES--Table of Contents
 
                   Subpart A_Application and Coverage
 
Sec. 15.2  Definitions.

    Administrative offset means withholding money payable by the United 
States Government to, or held by the Government for, a person to satisfy 
a debt the person owes the United States Government.
    Administrative wage garnishment is the process of withholding 
amounts from an employee's disposable pay and the paying of those 
amounts to a creditor in satisfaction of a withholding order.
    Claim and debt are used synonymously to refer to an amount of money, 
funds, or property that has been determined by an agency official to be 
owed to the United States from any person, organization, or entity, 
except another Federal agency. For the purposes of administrative offset 
under 31 U.S.C. 3716, the terms claim and debt include an amount of 
money, funds, or property owed by a person to a State (including past-
due support being enforced by a State), the District of Columbia, 
American Samoa, Guam, the United States Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth 
of the Northern Mariana Islands, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
    Cross-servicing means that the Treasury or another debt collection 
center is taking appropriate debt collection action on behalf of one or 
more Federal agencies or a unit or subagency thereof.
    Delinquent. A debt is considered delinquent if it has not been paid 
by the date specified in the initial written demand for payment or 
applicable contractual agreement with the NRC unless other satisfactory 
payment arrangements have been made by that date. If the debtor fails to 
satisfy obligations under a payment agreement with the NRC after other 
payment arrangements have been made, the debt becomes a delinquent debt.
    Federal agencies include agencies of the executive, legislative, and 
judicial branches of the Government, including Government corporations.
    License means any license, permit, or other approval issued by the 
Commission.
    Payment in full means payment of the total debt due the United 
States, including any interest, penalty, and administrative costs of 
collection assessed against the debtor.
    Recoupment is a special method for adjusting debts arising under the 
same transaction or occurrence. For example, obligations arising under 
the same

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contract generally are subject to recoupment.
    Salary offset means an administrative offset to collect a debt under 
5 U.S.C. 5514 by deduction(s) at one or more officially established pay 
intervals from the current pay account of an employee without his/her 
consent.
    Tax refund offset means withholding or reducing a tax refund payment 
by an amount necessary to satisfy a debt owed by the payee(s) of a tax 
refund payment.
    Treasury as used in 10 CFR part 15 means the Department of the 
Treasury.
    Withholding order means any order for withholding or garnishment of 
pay issued by an agency, or judicial or administrative body.

[55 FR 32377, Aug. 9, 1990, as amended at 56 FR 51830, Oct. 16, 1991; 67 
FR 30318, May 6, 2002]