[Title 28 CFR 0.161]
[Code of Federal Regulations (annual edition) - July 1, 2009 Edition]
[Title 28 - JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION]
[Chapter I - DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE]
[Part 0 - ORGANIZATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE]
[Subpart Y - Authority To Compromise and Close Civil Claims and]
[Sec. 0.161 - Acceptance of certain offers by the Deputy Attorney General]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office]


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Sec. 0.161  Acceptance of certain offers by the Deputy Attorney General
or Associate Attorney General, as appropriate.

    (a) In all cases in which the acceptance of a proposed offer in 
compromise would exceed the authority delegated by Sec. 0.160, the 
Assistant Attorney General concerned shall, when he is of the opinion 
that the proposed offer should be accepted, transmit his recommendation 
to that effect to the Deputy Attorney General or the Associate Attorney 
General, as appropriate.
    (b) The Deputy Attorney General or the Associate Attorney General, 
as appropriate, is authorized to exercise the settlement authority of 
the Attorney General as to all claims asserted by or against the United 
States.

[Order No. 1958-95, 60 FR 15675, Mar. 27, 1995]

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