[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 28, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 28CFR11.6]

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                    TITLE 28--JUDICIAL ADMINISTRATION
 
                    CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
 
PART 11_DEBT COLLECTION--Table of Contents
 
               Subpart B_Administration of Debt Collection
 
Sec. 11.6  Definitions.

    Except where the context clearly indicates otherwise or where the 
term is otherwise defined elsewhere in this subpart, the following 
definitions shall apply to this subpart.
    (a) Agency means:
    (1) An executive agency as defined by 5 U.S.C. 105;
    (2) A military department as defined by 5 U.S.C. 102;
    (3) The United States Postal Service and the Postal Rate Commission;
    (4) An agency of the judicial branch, including a court as defined 
by 28 U.S.C. 610, the District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands, 
and the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation;
    (5) An agency of the legislative branch, including the U.S. Senate 
and the U.S. House of Representatives; and
    (6) Other entities that are establishments of the federal 
government.
    (b) Bureau means the Bureau of Prisons, the Drug Enforcement 
Administration, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Bureau of 
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), Federal Prison 
Industries, the

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Immigration and Naturalization Service, the Office of Justice Programs, 
and the United States Marshals Service (USMS).
    (c) Certification means a written statement received by a paying 
agency from a creditor agency that requests the paying agency to offset 
the salary of an employee and specifies that appropriate procedural 
protections have been afforded the employee.
    (d) Components means the bureaus, offices, boards, and divisions of 
the Department.
    (e) Compromise means the forgiveness of a debt in accordance with 31 
U.S.C. 3711(a)(2) and DOJ Order No. 2120.4E. (Copies of this order are 
available in accordance with 28 CFR part 16, subpart A.)
    (f) Creditor agency means an agency of the federal government to 
which the debt is owed.
    (g) Department or Justice Department means the Department of Justice 
and its components.
    (h) Disposable pay means that part of current basic pay, special 
pay, incentive pay, retired pay, retainer pay, and, in the case of an 
employee not entitled to basic pay, other authorized pay, remaining 
after the deduction of any amount required by law to be withheld. The 
Department shall allow the following deductions in determining the 
amount of disposable pay that is subject to salary offset:
    (1) Amounts withheld from benefits payable under title II of the 
Social Security Act where the withholding is required the law;
    (2) Federal employment taxes;
    (3) Amounts mandatorily withheld for the United States Soldiers' and 
Airmen's Home;
    (4) Fines and forfeiture ordered by a court-martial or by a 
commanding officer;
    (5) Amounts deducted for Medicare;
    (6) Federal, state, or local income taxes to the extent authorized 
or required by law, but no greater than would be the case if the 
employee claimed all dependents to which he or she is entitled and such 
additional amounts for which the employee presents evidence of a tax 
obligation supporting the additional withholding;
    (7) Health insurance premiums;
    (8) Normal retirement contributions (e.g., Civil Service Retirement 
deductions, Survivor Benefit Plan payments, or Retired Servicemen's 
Family Protection Plan payments), not including amounts deducted for 
supplementary coverage; and
    (9) Normal life insurance premiums (e.g., Serviceman's Group Life 
Insurance and ``Basic Life'' Federal Employee's Group Life Insurance 
premiums), not including amounts deducted for supplementary coverage.
    (i) Employee means a current employee of the Justice Department or 
other agency, including a current member of the Armed Forces or a 
Reserve of the Armed Forces of the United States.
    (j) Federal Claims Collection Standards (FCCS) means standards 
jointly published by the Department and the General Accounting Office in 
4 CFR chapter II.
    (k) Hearing official means an individual responsible for conducting 
any hearing with respect to the existence or amount of a debt claimed 
and for rendering a decision on the basis of such hearing. A hearing 
official may not be under the supervision or control of the Attorney 
General when the Department is the creditor agency but may be an 
administrative law judge.
    (l) Notice of Intent to Offset or Notice of Intent means a written 
notice from a creditor agency to an employee, organization, or entity 
stating that the debtor is indebted to the creditor agency and apprising 
the debtor of certain procedural rights.
    (m) Notice of Salary Offset means a written notice from the paying 
agency to an employee after a certification has been issued by a 
creditor agency, informing the employee that salary offset will begin at 
the next officially established pay interval.
    (n) Organization means the bureaus individually and the offices, 
boards, and divisions collectively.
    (o) Organization head means any Director, Administrator, or 
Commissioner of the respective Department bureaus, the Director of the 
United States Trustee System, the Director of the Executive Office for 
United States Attorneys, and the Assistant Attorney General for 
Administration, who shall

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serve as the organization head for the offices, boards, and divisions.
    (p) Paying agency means the agency of the federal government that 
employs the individual who owes a debt to an agency of the federal 
government. In some cases, the Department may be both the creditor 
agency and the paying agency.
    (q)(1) Payroll office means the payroll office in the paying agency 
that is primarily responsible for the payroll records and the 
coordination of pay matters with the appropriate personnel office with 
respect to an employee.
    (2) Applicable payroll office means the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation voucher and Payroll Section with respect to FBI employees 
and the Justice Employee Data Service for all other employees of the 
Department.
    (r) Salary offset coordination officer means an official designated 
by an organization head who is responsible for coordinating the debt 
collection activities of that organization.

[Order No. 1625-92, 57 FR 44107, Sept. 24, 1992, as amended by Order No. 
2650-2003, 68 FR 4928, Jan. 31, 2003]