[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR3.22]

[Page 264]
 
                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
PART 3_DEBT MANAGEMENT--Table of Contents
 
                        Subpart B_Debt Collection
 
Sec. 3.22  Definitions.

    In this subpart:
    (a) Debt management officer means an agency employee responsible for 
collection by administrative offset of debts owed the United States.
    (b) Contracting officer has the same meaning as in 41 U.S.C. 601.
    (c) Creditor agency means a Federal agency to whom a debtor owes a 
monetary debt. It need not be the same agency that effects the offset.
    (d) Offsetting agency means an agency that withholds from its 
payment to a debtor an amount owed by the debtor to a creditor agency, 
and assures that the funds are paid to the creditor agency to be applied 
to the debt.
    (e) Reviewing officer means an agency employee responsible for 
conducting a hearing or providing documentary review on the existence of 
the debt and the propriety of administrative offset.

[50 FR 7722, Feb. 26, 1985, as amended at 55 FR 38662, Sept. 20, 1990]