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31 USC § 3701 - Definitions and application
“administrative offset” means withholding funds payable by the United States (including funds payable by the United States on behalf of a State government) to, or held by the United States for, a person to satisfy a claim.
“calendar quarter” means a 3-month period beginning on January 1, April 1, July 1, or October 1.
“consumer reporting agency” means—
a consumer reporting agency as that term is defined in section 603(f) of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (15 U.S.C. 1681a
(f)); or
a person that, for money or on a cooperative basis, regularly—
gets information on consumers to give the information to a consumer reporting agency; or
serves as a marketing agent under an arrangement allowing a third party to get the information from a consumer reporting agency.
“executive, judicial, or legislative agency” means a department, agency, court, court administrative office, or instrumentality in the executive, judicial, or legislative branch of Government, including government corporations.
“military department” means the Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force.
“system of records” has the same meaning given that term in section 552a
“uniformed services” means the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Commissioned Corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and Commissioned Corps of the Public Health Service.
“nontax” means, with respect to any debt or claim, any debt or claim other than a debt or claim under the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
In subchapter II of this chapter and subsection (a)(8) of this section, the term “claim” or “debt” means any amount of funds or property that has been determined by an appropriate official of the Federal Government to be owed to the United States by a person, organization, or entity other than another Federal agency. A claim includes, without limitation—
funds owed on account of loans made, insured, or guaranteed by the Government, including any deficiency or any difference between the price obtained by the Government in the sale of a property and the amount owed to the Government on a mortgage on the property,
expenditures of nonappropriated funds, including actual and administrative costs related to shoplifting, theft detection, and theft prevention,
over-payments, including payments disallowed by audits performed by the Inspector General of the agency administering the program,
any amount the United States is authorized by statute to collect for the benefit of any person,
the unpaid share of any non-Federal partner in a program involving a Federal payment and a matching, or cost-sharing, payment by the non-Federal partner,
any fines or penalties assessed by an agency; [1]
other amounts of money or property owed to the Government.
For purposes of section 3716 of this title, each of the terms “claim” and “debt” includes an amount of funds or property owed by a person to a State (including any past-due support being enforced by the 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.
In sections 3716 and 3717 of this title, the term “person” does not include an agency of the United States Government.
Sections 3711
(e) and 3716–3719 of this title do not apply to a claim or debt under, or to an amount payable under—
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. 1 et seq.),
the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 301 et seq.), except to the extent provided under sections 204(f) and 1631(b)(4) of such Act and section 3716
the tariff laws of the United States.
In section 3716 of this title—
“creditor agency” means any agency owed a claim that seeks to collect that claim through administrative offset; and
“payment certifying agency” means any agency that has transmitted a voucher to a disbursing official for disbursement.
In section 3711 of this title, “private collection contractor” means private debt collectors under contract with an agency to collect a nontax debt or claim owed the United States. The term includes private debt collectors, collection agencies, and commercial attorneys.
(Pub. L. 97–258, Sept. 13, 1982, 96 Stat. 970; Pub. L. 97–452, § 1(13)(A),Jan. 12, 1983, 96 Stat. 2469; Pub. L. 99–514, § 2,Oct. 22, 1986, 100 Stat. 2095; Pub. L. 103–387, § 5(b),Oct. 22, 1994, 108 Stat. 4077; Pub. L. 104–134, title III, § 31001(c)(2), (d)(1), (3), (z)(1),Apr. 26, 1996, 110 Stat. 1321–359, 1321–361, 1321–378; Pub. L. 104–316, title I, § 115(g)(2)(A),Oct. 19, 1996, 110 Stat. 3835; Pub. L. 106–169, title II, § 203(b),Dec. 14, 1999, 113 Stat. 1832; Pub. L. 107–107, div. A, title III, § 335,Dec. 28, 2001, 115 Stat. 1060.)
Revised Section Source (U.S. Code) Source (Statutes at Large) 3701(1)
July 19, 1966, Pub. L. 89–508, § 2, 80 Stat. 308.
Aug. 31, 1964, Pub. L. 88–558, § 2(1), (2), (4), 78 Stat. 767; restated Sept. 15, 1965, Pub. L. 89–185, § 3(a), 79 Stat. 789.
Revised Section Source (U.S. Code) Source (Statutes at Large) 3701(a)(1)
July 19, 1966, Pub. L. 89–508, 80 Stat. 308, § 5(e); added Oct. 25, 1982, Pub. L. 97–365, § 10(2), 96 Stat. 1755.
July 19, 1966, Pub. L. 89–508, 80 Stat. 308, § 3(e)(1)(last sentence), (8); added Oct. 25, 1982, Pub. L. 97–365, § 11, 96 Stat. 1755, 1756.
July 19, 1966, Pub. L. 89–508, 80 Stat. 308, § 3(d)(4); added Oct. 25, 1982, Pub. L. 97–365, § 3, 96 Stat. 1750.
July 19, 1966, Pub. L. 89–508, 80 Stat. 308, § 3(g); added Oct. 25, 1982, Pub. L. 97–365, § 13(b), 96 Stat. 1758.
Oct. 25, 1982, Pub. L. 97–365, § 8(e)(related to §§ 3, 10(2)–12, 13(b)), 96 Stat. 1754.
In subsection (b), the words “all . . . from fees, duties, leases, rents, royalties, services, sales of real or personal property, overpayments, fines, penalties, damages, interest, taxes, forfeitures, and other sources” are omitted as surplus.
The Social Security Act, referred to in subsec. (d)(2), is act Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, 49 Stat. 620, as amended, which is classified generally to chapter 7 (§ 301 et seq.) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. Sections 204(f) and 1631(b)(4) of the Act are classified to sections 404
(f) and 1383
(b)(4), respectively, of Title 42. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see section 1305 of Title 42 and Tables.
2001—Subsec. (b)(1)(B). Pub. L. 107–107inserted “, including actual and administrative costs related to shoplifting, theft detection, and theft prevention” before comma at end.
1999—Subsec. (d)(2). Pub. L. 106–169substituted “sections 204(f) and 1631(b)(4)” for “section 204(f)”.
1996—Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 104–134, § 31001(z)(1)(A), amended par. (1) generally. Prior to amendment, par. (1) read as follows: “ ‘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 Government.”
Subsec. (a)(4). Pub. L. 104–134, § 31001(c)(2), amended par. (4) generally. Prior to amendment, par. (4) read as follows: “ ‘executive or legislative agency’ means a department, agency, or instrumentality in the executive or legislative branch of the Government.”
Subsec. (a)(8). Pub. L. 104–134, § 31001(d)(3), added par. (8).
Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 104–134, § 31001(z)(1)(B), amended subsec. (b) generally. Prior to amendment, subsec. (b) read as follows: “In subchapter II of this chapter, ‘claim’ includes amounts owing on account of loans insured or guaranteed by the Government and other amounts due the Government.”
Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 104–134, § 31001(d)(1), amended subsec. (c) generally. Prior to amendment, subsec. (c) read as follows: “In sections 3716 and 3717 of this title, ‘person’ does not include an agency of the United States Government, of a State government, or of a unit of general local government.”
Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 104–316substituted “Sections 3711
(f)” in introductory provisions.
Pub. L. 104–134, § 31001(z)(1)(D), amended subsec. (d) generally. Prior to amendment, subsec. (d) read as follows: “Sections 3711
(f) and 3716–3719 of this title do not apply to a claim or debt under, or to an amount payable under, the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. 1 et seq.), the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 301 et seq.), except to the extent provided under section 204(f) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 404
(f)),, or the tariff laws of the United States.”
Subsecs. (e), (f). Pub. L. 104–134, § 31001(z)(1)(C), added subsecs. (e) and (f).
1994—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 103–387inserted “, except to the extent provided under section 204(f) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 404
(f)),” after “the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 301 et seq.)”.
1983—Pub. L. 97–452designated existing provisions as subsec. (a), added pars. (1), (2), and (3), redesignated former par. (1) as (4) and substituted “Government” for “United States Government”, redesignated former par. (2) as (5), added par. (6), redesignated former par. (3) as (7) and struck out “the” before “Commissioned Corps” in two places, and added subsecs. (b) to (d).
Pub. L. 106–169, title II, § 203(d),Dec. 14, 1999, 113 Stat. 1832, provided that: “The amendments made by this section [amending this section and sections 404 and 1383 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare] shall apply to debt outstanding on or after the date of the enactment of this Act [Dec. 14, 1999].”
Section 5(c) ofPub. L. 103–387, as amended by Pub. L. 104–134, title III, § 31001(z)(2)(B),Apr. 26, 1996, 110 Stat. 1321–379, provided that: “The amendments made by this section [amending this section and section 404 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare] shall apply to collection activities begun on or after the date of the enactment of this Act [Oct. 22, 1994].”
Section 31001(a)(1) ofPub. L. 104–134provided that: “This section [enacting sections 3720B to 3720E of this title, amending this section, sections 3322, 3325, 3331, 3332, 3343, 3711, 3712, 3716 to 3719, 3720A, and 7701 of this title, section 5514 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, sections 6050P, 6103, and 6402 of Title 26, Internal Revenue Code, and sections 404 and 664 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, enacting provisions set out as notes under this section, sections 3322, 3711, 3716, and 3719 of this title, and section 2461 of Title 28, Judiciary and Judicial Procedure, amending provisions set out as notes under this section and section 2461 of Title 28, and repealing provisions set out as notes under section 3718 of this title] may be cited as the ‘Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996’.”
Pub. L. 99–562, § 1,Oct. 27, 1986, 100 Stat. 3153, provided that: “This Act [enacting sections 3732 and 3733 of this title and amending sections 3729 to 3731 of this title and section 287 of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal Procedure] may be cited as the ‘False Claims Amendments Act of 1986’.”
Section 31001(b) ofPub. L. 104–134provided that: “The purposes of this section [see Short Title of 1996 Amendment note above] are the following:
“(4) To ensure that the public is fully informed of the Federal Government’s debt collection policies and that debtors are cognizant of their financial obligations to repay amounts owed to the Federal Government.
Pub. L. 101–163, title I, § 11,Nov. 21, 1989, 103 Stat. 1046, provided that:
This is a list of parts within the Code of Federal Regulations for which this US Code section provides rulemaking authority.This list is taken from the Parallel Table of Authorities and Rules provided by GPO [Government Printing Office].It is not guaranteed to be accurate or up-to-date, though we do refresh the database weekly. More limitations on accuracy are described at the GPO site.5 CFR - Title 5—Administrative Personnel5 CFR Part 179 - CLAIMS COLLECTION STANDARDS
6 CFR - Title 6—Domestic Security6 CFR Part 11 - CLAIMS
7 CFR - Agriculture7 CFR 3 - DEBT MANAGEMENT
10 CFR - Title 10—Energy10 CFR Part 15 - DEBT COLLECTION PROCEDURES10 CFR Part 16 - SALARY OFFSET PROCEDURES FOR COLLECTING DEBTS OWED BY FEDERAL EMPLOYEES TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT10 CFR Part 1015 - COLLECTION OF CLAIMS OWED THE UNITED STATES
12 CFR - Banks and Banking12 CFR Part 313 - PROCEDURES FOR CORPORATE DEBT COLLECTION12 CFR Part 608 - COLLECTION OF CLAIMS OWED THE UNITED STATES12 CFR Part 1208 - DEBT COLLECTION12 CFR Part 1408 - COLLECTION OF CLAIMS OWED THE UNITED STATES
15 CFR - Title 15—Commerce and Foreign Trade15 CFR Part 19 - COMMERCE DEBT COLLECTION
18 CFR - Title 18—Conservation of Power and Water Resources18 CFR Part 385 - RULES OF PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
22 CFR - Foreign Relations22 CFR Part 34 - DEBT COLLECTION22 CFR Part 309 - DEBT COLLECTION22 CFR Part 512 - COLLECTION OF DEBTS UNDER THE DEBT COLLECTION ACT OF 1982
29 CFR - Title 29—Labor29 CFR Part 1450 - COLLECTIONS OF CLAIMS OWED THE UNITED STATES29 CFR Part 1650 - DEBT COLLECTION29 CFR Part 4903 - DEBT COLLECTION
31 CFR - Title 31—Money and Finance: Treasury31 CFR 5 - TREASURY DEBT COLLECTION31 CFR Part 285 - DEBT COLLECTION AUTHORITIES UNDER THE DEBT COLLECTION IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 199631 CFR Part 391 - WAIVER OF INTEREST, ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS, AND PENALTIES31 CFR Part 901 - STANDARDS FOR THE ADMINISTRATIVE COLLECTION OF CLAIMS
32 CFR - Title 32—National Defense32 CFR Part 842 - ADMINISTRATIVE CLAIMS
34 CFR - Title 34—Education34 CFR Part 36 - ADJUSTMENT OF CIVIL MONETARY PENALTIES FOR INFLATION34 CFR 19834 CFR 20434 CFR 298
40 CFR - Title 40—Protection of Environment40 CFR Part 19 - ADJUSTMENT OF CIVIL MONETARY PENALTIES FOR INFLATION40 CFR Part 27 - PROGRAM FRAUD CIVIL REMEDIES
44 CFR - Title 44—Emergency Management and Assistance44 CFR Part 11 - CLAIMS
49 CFR - Title 49—Transportation49 CFR Part 89 - IMPLEMENTATION OF THE FEDERAL CLAIMS COLLECTION ACT49 CFR Part 1018 - DEBT COLLECTION