[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 40, Volume 1]
[Revised as of July 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 40CFR13.2]

[Page 197]
 
                   TITLE 40--PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENT
 
               CHAPTER I--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
 
PART 13_CLAIMS COLLECTION STANDARDS--Table of Contents
 
                            Subpart A_General
 
Sec. 13.2  Definitions.

    (a) Debt means an amount owed to the United States from sources 
which include loans insured or guaranteed by the United States and all 
other amounts due the United States from fees, grants, contracts, 
leases, rents, royalties, services, sales of real or personal property, 
overpayments, fines, penalties, damages, interest, forfeitures (except 
those arising under the Uniform Code of Military Justice), and all other 
similar sources. As used in this regulation, the terms debt and claim 
are synonymous.
    (b) Delinquent debt means any debt which has not been paid by the 
date specified by the Government for payment or which has not been 
satisfied in accordance with a repayment agreement.
    (c) Debtor means an individual, organization, association, 
corporation, or a State or local government indebted to the United 
States or a person or entity with legal responsibility for assuming the 
debtor's obligation.
    (d) Agency means the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
    (e) Administrator means the Administrator of EPA or an EPA employee 
or official designated to act on the Administrator's behalf.
    (f) Administrative offset means the withholding of money payable by 
the United States to, or held by the United States for, a person to 
satisfy a debt the person owes the Government.
    (g) Creditor agency means the Federal agency to which the debt is 
owed.
    (h) Disposable pay means that part of current basic pay, special 
pay, incentive pay, retired pay, retainer pay, or in the case of an 
employee not entitled to basic pay, other authorized pay remaining after 
the deduction of any amount described in 5 CFR 581.105 (b) through (f). 
These deductions include, but are not limited to: Social security 
withholdings; Federal, State and local tax withholdings; health 
insurance premiums; retirement contributions; and life insurance 
premiums.
    (i) Employee means a current employee of the Federal Government 
including a current member of the Armed Forces.
    (j) Person means an individual, firm, partnership, corporation, 
association and, except for purposes of administrative offsets under 
subpart C and interest, penalty and administrative costs under subpart B 
of this regulation, includes State and local governments and Indian 
tribes and components of tribal governments.
    (k) Employee salary offset means the administrative collection of a 
debt by deductions at one or more officially established pay intervals 
from the current pay account of an employee without the employee's 
consent.
    (l) Waiver means the cancellation, remission, forgiveness or non-
recovery of a debt or debt-related charge as permitted or required by 
law.