[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 45, Volume 3]

[Revised as of October 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 45CFR607.10]



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                        TITLE 45--PUBLIC WELFARE

 

                 CHAPTER VI--NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

 

PART 607_SALARY OFFSET--Table of Contents

 

Sec. 607.10  Statute of limitations.



    If a debt has been outstanding for more than 10 years after NSF's 

right to collect the debt first accrued, the agency may not collect by 

salary offset unless facts material to the Government's right to collect 

were not known and could not reasonably have been known by the official 

or officials who were charged with the responsibility for discovery and 

collection of such debts.