[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 249 (Friday, December 28, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 67366]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-31893]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Fiscal Service


Renegotiation Board Interest Rate; Prompt Payment Interest Rate; 
Contract Disputes Act

AGENCY: Bureau of the Public Debt, Fiscal Service, Treasury.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: For the period beginning January 1, 2002 and ending on June 
30, 2002 the prompt payment interest rate is 5.500 per centum per 
annum.

ADDRESSES: Comments or inquiries may be mailed to Eleanor Farrar, Team 
Leader, Debt Accounting Branch, Office of Public Debt Accounting, 
Bureau of the Public Debt, Parkersburg, West Virginia 26106-1328. A 
copy of this Notice will be available to download from http://www.publicdebt.treas.gov.

DATES: This notice announces the applicable interest rate for the 
January 1, 2002 to June 30, 2002 period.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Frank Dunn, Manager, Debt Accounting 
Branch, Office of Public Debt Accounting, Bureau of the Public Debt, 
Parkersburg, West Virginia 26106-1328, (304) 480-5170; Eleanor Farrar, 
Team Leader, Borrowings Accounting Team, Office of Public Debt 
Accounting, Bureau of the Public Debt, (304) 480-5166; Edward C. 
Gronseth, Deputy Chief Counsel, Office of the Chief Counsel, Bureau of 
the Public Debt, (304) 480-8692; or Mary C. Schaffer, Attorney-Adviser, 
Office of the Chief Counsel, Bureau of the Public Debt, (304) 480-8685.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Although the Renegotiation Board is no 
longer in existence, other Federal Agencies are required to use 
interest rates computed under the criteria established by the 
Renegotiation Act of 1971, section 2, Pub. L. 92-41, 85 Stat. 97. For 
example, the Contract Disputes Act of 1978, section 12, Pub. L. 95-563, 
92 Stat. 2389 and indirectly, the Prompt Payment Act of 1982, 31 U.S.C. 
3902(a), provide for the calculation of interest due on claims at a 
rate established by the Secretary of the Treasury for the Renegotiation 
Board under Pub. L. 92-41.
    Therefore, notice is given that the Secretary of the Treasury has 
determined that the rate of interest applicable, for the period 
beginning January 1, 2002 and ending on June 30, 2002, is 5.500 per 
centum per annum. This rate is determined pursuant to the above-
mentioned sections for the purpose of said sections.

    Dated: December 20, 2001.
Donald V. Hammond,
Fiscal Assistant Secretary.
[FR Doc. 01-31893 Filed 12-27-01; 8:45 am]
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