Sec. 1.1901  Definitions.

    (a) The term 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.
    (b) The term agency means the Federal Communications Commission 
(Commission) or any other agency of the U.S. Government as defined by 
section 105 of title 5 U.S.C., the U.S. Postal Service, the U.S. Postal 
Rate Commission, a military department as defined by section 102 of 
title 5 U.S.C., an agency or court of the judicial branch, or and an 
agency of the legislative branch, including the U.S. Senate and the U.S. 
House of Representatives.
    (c) The term agency head means the Chairman of the Federal 
Communications Commission.
    (d) The terms appropriate agency official or designee means the 
Managing Director of the Commission or such other official as may be 
named by the Managing Director.
    (e) The terms claim and debt are deemed synonymous and 
interchangeable. They refer to an amount of money or property which has 
been determined by an appropriate agency official to be owed to the 
United States from any person, organization, or entity, except another 
federal agency. They include amounts owing to the United States on 
account of loans insured or guaranteed by the United States and all 
other amounts due the United States from fees, leases, rents, royalties, 
services, sales of real or personal property, overpayments, fines, 
penalties, damages, interest, taxes, and forfeitures (except those 
arising under the Uniform Code of Military Justice), and other similar 
sources.
    (f) The term creditor agency means the agency to which the debt is 
owed.
    (g) The term delinquent means a claim or debt which has not been 
paid by the date specified in the agency's written notification or 
applicable contractual agreement, unless other satisfactory payment 
arrangements have been made by that date, or, at any time thereafter, 
the debtor has failed to satisfy an obligation under a payment agreement 
with the agency.
    (h) The term 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

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authorized pay remaining after the deduction of any amount required by 
law to be withheld. Agencies must exclude deductions described in 5 CFR 
581.105 (b) through (f) to determine disposable pay subject to salary 
offset.
    (i) The term employee means a current employee of the Commission or 
of another agency, including a current member of the Armed Forces or a 
Reserve of the Armed Forces (Reserve).
    (j) The term FCCS means the Federal Claims Collection Standards 
jointly published by the Justice Department and the General Accounting 
Office at 4 CFR parts 101-105.
    (k) The term paying agency means the agency employing the individual 
and authorizing the payment of his or her current pay.
    (l) The term referral for litigation means referral to the 
Department of Justice for appropriate legal proceedings except where the 
Commission has the statutory authority to handle the litigation itself.
    (m) The term salary offset means an administrative offset to collect 
a debt under 5 U.S.C. 5514 by deduction(s) at one or more officially 
established pay intervals from the current pay account of an employee 
without his or her consent.
    (n) The term waiver means the cancellation, remission, forgiveness, 
or non-recovery of a debt allegedly owed by an employee to an agency as 
permitted or required by 5 U.S.C. 5584, 10 U.S.C. 2774, or 32 U.S.C 710, 
5 U.S.C. 8346(b), or any other law.