[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: 10CFR16.3]

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                            TITLE 10--ENERGY
 
                CHAPTER I--NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
 
PART 16_SALARY OFFSET PROCEDURES FOR COLLECTING DEBTS OWED BY FEDERAL 
EMPLOYEES TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 16.3  Definitions.

    For the purposes of this part, the following definitions apply:
    Administrative charges are those amounts assessed by NRC to cover 
the costs of processing and handling delinquent debts due the 
Government.
    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.
    Agency means any agency of the executive, legislative, and judicial 
branches of the Federal Government, including Government corporations.
    Centralized salary offset computer matching describes the 
computerized process used to match delinquent debt records with Federal 
salary payment records when the purpose of the match

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is to identify Federal employees who owe debt to the Federal Government.
    Creditor agency means the agency to which the debt is owed, 
including a debt collection center when acting in behalf of a creditor 
agency in matters pertaining to the collection of a debt.
    Debt and claim 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 debt and claim 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.
    Debt collection center means the Department of the Treasury or other 
Government agency or division designated by the Secretary of the 
Treasury with authority to collect debts on behalf of creditor agencies.
    Delinquent debt record refers to the information about a debt that 
an agency submits to Treasury when the agency refers the debt for 
collection by offset in accordance with the provision of 31 U.S.C. 3716.
    Disbursing official means an official who has authority to disburse 
Federal salary payments pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 3321 or another law.
    Disposable pay means that part of current basic pay, special pay, 
incentive pay, retired pay, retainer pay, or in the case of an employee 
not entitled to basic pay, other authorized pay remaining after the 
deduction of:
    (1) Any amount required by law to be withheld;
    (2) Amounts properly withheld for Federal, state or local income tax 
purposes;
    (3) Amounts deducted as health insurance premiums;
    (4) Amounts deducted as normal retirement contributions, not 
including amounts deducted for supplementary coverage; and
    (5) Amounts deducted as normal life insurance premiums not including 
amounts deducted for supplementary coverage.
    Employee is any individual employed by any agency of the executive, 
legislative, and judicial branches of the Federal Government, including 
Government corporations.
    FCCS means the Federal Claims Collection Standards jointly published 
by the Department of the Treasury and the Department of Justice at 31 
CFR Chapter IX, Parts 900 through 904.
    Hearing official means an individual responsible for conducting any 
hearing with respect to the existence or amount of a debt claimed or the 
repayment schedule if not established by written agreement between the 
employee and the NRC, and who renders a decision on the basis of this 
hearing.
    Paying agency means the agency that employs the individual who owes 
the debt and authorizes the payment of his/her current pay.
    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 or her 
consent.
    Treasury as used in 10 CFR part 16 means the Department of the 
Treasury.
    Waiver means the cancellation, remission, forgiveness, or non-
recovery of a debt allegedly owed by an employee to an agency as 
permitted or required by 5 U.S.C. 5584, 10 U.S.C. 2774, 32 U.S.C. 716, 5 
U.S.C. 8346(b), or any other law.

[56 FR 51830, Oct. 16, 1991, as amended at 67 FR 57507, Sept. 11, 2002]