[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 6 (Monday, January 11, 2021)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 1740-1745]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-27955]


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FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION

12 CFR Part 313

RIN 3064-AF25


Collection of Civil Money Penalty Debt

AGENCY: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

ACTION: Final rule.

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SUMMARY: The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is amending 
the FDIC's Procedures for Corporate Debt Collection to include 
delinquent civil money penalties within the debt covered by those 
procedures.

DATES: The final rule is effective on February 10, 2021.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 
    Graham N. Rehrig, Senior Attorney (202) 898-3829, [email protected];
    Gabrielle A.J. Beam, Counsel (Team Leader) (816) 234-8503, 
[email protected]; or Michael P. Farrell, Counsel (202) 898-3853, 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Policy Objectives

    The Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996 (DCIA) requires Federal 
agencies to collect debts owed to the United States in accordance with 
regulations that either adopt, or at least are consistent with, 
standards prescribed by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Department 
of the Treasury (Treasury).\1\ Treasury has issued regulations 
applicable to collection under the DCIA, and these regulations, known 
as the Federal Claims Collection Standards (FCCS), became effective on 
December 22, 2000. The purpose of the DCIA is to enhance the efficiency 
and effectiveness of the Federal Government's efforts to collect debt 
owed to the United States. A principal feature of the DCIA was the 
creation of the Treasury Offset Program (TOP), a Government-wide 
database of delinquent debtors that offsets (reduces) Federal payments 
to recipients who also owe delinquent debt to the United States and 
that remits the offset amount to the creditor agency.
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    \1\ See Public Law 104-134, 110 Stat. 1321-358 (codified at 31 
U.S.C. 3701 et seq.).
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    The FDIC is amending its regulations, in accordance with the DCIA, 
to add the collection of civil money penalty (CMP) debt to the FDIC's 
existing debt-collection regulations found in 12 CFR part 313. Part 313 
does not currently provide for collection of CMP debt. The amendments 
would allow the FDIC to refer debts arising from its enforcement-
related activities to Treasury for collection, thereby improving the 
effectiveness of the FDIC's debt-collection efforts.

II. Background

    In 2002, the FDIC, in compliance with the DCIA, promulgated 12 CFR 
part 313

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governing the collection of certain debts owed to the FDIC in its 
corporate capacity by Federal employees, including FDIC employees, and 
certain third parties.\2\ The FDIC amended part 313 in 2006 to include 
criminal restitution debt.\3\ Part 313, in its present form, applies 
only to debts owed to and payments made by the FDIC acting in its 
corporate capacity, and criminal restitution debt owed to the FDIC in 
either its corporate capacity or its receivership capacity.\4\
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    \2\ See 67 FR 48525 (July 25, 2002).
    \3\ 71 FR 75659 (Dec. 18, 2006).
    \4\ 12 CFR 313.1(c)(1)-(2).
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    The DCIA authorizes the FDIC to collect delinquent CMP debts that 
arise from its supervision and enforcement functions,\5\ but the 
current part 313 does not apply--aside from criminal restitution debt 
noted above--to ``debts owed to or payments made by the FDIC in 
connection with the FDIC's liquidation, supervision, enforcement, or 
insurance responsibilities.'' \6\
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    \5\ The FDIC assesses CMPs under the Federal Deposit Insurance 
Act, 12 U.S.C. 1818(i), and a variety of other statutes. See, e.g., 
12 U.S.C. 1972(2)(F) (authorizing the FDIC to impose CMPs for 
violations of the Bank Holding Company Act of 1970 related to 
prohibited tying arrangements); 15 U.S.C. 78u-2 (authorizing the 
FDIC to impose CMPs for violations of certain provisions of the 
Securities Exchange Act of 1934); and 42 U.S.C. 4012a(f) 
(authorizing the FDIC to impose CMPs for pattern or practice 
violations of the Flood Disaster Protection Act).
    \6\ 12 CFR 313.1(c)(3).
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III. Discussion of the Amendments to Part 313

    The rule amends FDIC regulations to provide for the collection of 
CMP debt. It will do so by adopting existing Treasury regulations 
concerning debt-collection procedures as to the collection of CMP debt. 
It will improve the effectiveness of the FDIC's debt-collection 
efforts, primarily by allowing the FDIC to refer debts arising from its 
enforcement-related activities to Treasury for collection. The rule 
will not affect the FDIC's existing authority under part 313 to collect 
other forms of debt, including debt owed to the FDIC in its corporate 
capacity or for the collection of criminal restitution debt.
    The legal authority for the amendments is found, in part, in the 
DCIA itself. The DCIA's definition of ``debt'' includes ``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.'' \7\ The 
FDIC is amending part 313 in accordance with the FDIC's authority under 
12 U.S.C. 1819(a) to prescribe rules and regulations governing its 
operations.
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    \7\ 37 U.S.C. 3701(b)(1).
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    Accordingly, the FDIC is amending part 313 as follows:
    Section 313.1 (Scope) is revised to include CMP debt in part 313. 
This section also notes that subparts B through G of part 313 do not 
apply to the collection of CMP debt.
    Section 313.3 (Definitions) is amended to include CMP debtors among 
the list of debtors, under paragraph (u), to whom a creditor agency 
(the FDIC) may send a written notice that, among other statements, 
claims a debt and informs the debtor that the creditor agency intends 
to collect the debt by administrative offset. The rule makes a 
technical revision to paragraph (d) to substitute ``the Bureau of the 
Fiscal Service'' as the successor Treasury entity to ``FMS'' 
(Treasury's former Financial Management Service) and to note that the 
FDIC has the statutory authority, under 12 U.S.C. 1818(i)(2)(F), to 
compromise, modify, or remit any CMP that the FDIC may assess or has 
already assessed under 12 U.S.C. 1818(i)(2)(A)-(C). Section 313.3 is 
also revised at paragraphs (j), (m), (n), and (q) to include three 
divisions of the FDIC, as well as the directors of those divisions (or 
their designees), since the enforcement and supervisory activities of 
those divisions may result in the assessment of CMPs.
    Section 313.4 (Delegations of authority) contains technical 
amendments to clarify the following delegations: (1) Authority to 
collect debt, other than criminal restitution debt and CMP debt, on 
behalf of the FDIC in its corporate capacity is delegated to the 
Director of the Division of Administration or Director of the Division 
of Finance, as applicable, or to the applicable Director's designee; 
and (2) authority to collect criminal restitution debt on behalf of the 
FDIC in either its receivership or corporate capacity is delegated to 
the Director of the Division of Resolutions and Receiverships, or to 
her or his designee.
    The rule creates a new part 313, subpart H, which concerns the 
collection of CMP debt. Section 313.181 (Scope) states that subpart H 
establishes FDIC procedures for the collection of CMP debt. Section 
313.182 (Purpose) notes that the purpose of subpart H is to implement 
Federal statutes and regulatory standards authorizing the FDIC to 
collect delinquent CMPs. Section 313.183 (Definitions) indicates that 
the definitions provided at section 313.3 apply to subpart H to the 
extent they are applicable.
    Section 313.184 outlines how the FDIC will collect CMP debt. 
Paragraph (a) states that the FDIC will follow Treasury regulations set 
forth at 31 CFR part 285, as applicable and consistent with subpart H, 
for the collection of CMP debt, including centralized offset of Federal 
payments to collect non-tax debts that may be owed to the FDIC. 
Paragraph (b) notes that nothing in subpart H shall be construed to 
require the FDIC to provide duplicate notice or other procedural 
protections that have already been provided or afforded to a CMP debtor 
in the course of administrative or judicial litigation or otherwise. 
Paragraph (c) says that, for CMP debtors, and for purposes of 31 U.S.C. 
3716(b)(1), the FDIC adopts without change the regulations on 
collection by administrative offset set forth at 31 CFR 901.3 and other 
relevant sections of the FCCS applicable to such offset, to the extent 
those regulations are consistent with subpart H. Finally, paragraph (d) 
states that nothing in subpart H precludes the collection of debts 
through any other available means or precludes the FDIC from engaging 
in litigation or the compromise of debt as provided under 12 U.S.C. 
1818(i) or any other applicable law or regulation.

IV. Expected Effects

    The FDIC is amending part 313 in accordance with the FDIC's 
authority under 12 U.S.C. 1819(a) to prescribe rules and regulations 
governing its operations. The rule would not directly affect any FDIC-
supervised institutions. The rule could indirectly affect FDIC-insured 
instructions and individuals who are delinquent with respect to CMPs 
that have been assessed against them by the FDIC. According to the 
FDIC's information, the sum of delinquent CMPs owed to the FDIC amounts 
to approximately $1 million. The delinquent CMP funds represent a 
preexisting obligation owed by the individuals or institutions; 
therefore, the rule will have no effect on these obligations. However, 
the rule, as amended, could increase the portion of these obligations 
that is ultimately collected under part 313.

V. Alternatives Considered

    As discussed previously, part 313 does not currently apply to the 
collection of delinquent CMPs. The FDIC believes that it can increase 
the effectiveness of its delinquent CMP collection efforts through the 
use of administrative offset. The DCIA states that agencies, before 
collecting a claim by administrative offset, must either adopt the FCCS 
without change or prescribe agency regulations for collecting debts by 
administrative offset that are consistent with the FCCS. The

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FDIC has considered these two approaches and has decided to adopt the 
FCCS without change for the collection of delinquent CMPs.

VI. Administrative Law Matters

A. Administrative Procedure Act

    The FDIC is issuing this final rule without prior notice and the 
opportunity for public comment ordinarily prescribed by the 
Administrative Procedure Act (APA).\8\ Pursuant to section 553(b)(A) of 
the APA, general notice and the opportunity for public comment are not 
required with respect to a rule of ``agency organization, procedure, or 
practice.'' \9\
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    \8\ 5 U.S.C. 553.
    \9\ 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(A).
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    As discussed above, this final rule amends the FDIC regulations to 
provide for the collection of CMP debt. It will do so by adopting 
existing Treasury regulations concerning debt-collection procedures as 
to the collection of CMP debt. These amendments relate solely to agency 
procedure and practice. For this reason, the FDIC finds that general 
notice and opportunity for public comment are not required under the 
APA.

B. Regulatory Flexibility Act

    The Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA) \10\ requires an agency to 
consider whether the rules it proposes will have a significant economic 
impact on a substantial number of small entities.\11\ The RFA applies 
only to rules for which an agency publishes a general notice of 
proposed rulemaking pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 553(b). As discussed 
previously, consistent with section 553(b)(A) of the APA, the FDIC has 
determined that general notice and opportunity for public comment is 
not required as the final rule is a rule of agency procedure and 
practice. Accordingly, the FDIC has concluded that the RFA's 
requirements relating to initial and final regulatory flexibility 
analysis do not apply.
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    \10\ 5 U.S.C. 601 et seq.
    \11\ Under regulations issued by the Small Business 
Administration, a small entity includes a depository institution, 
bank holding company, or savings and loan holding company with total 
assets of $600 million or less and trust companies with total assets 
of $41.5 million or less. See 13 CFR 121.201.
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C. Paperwork Reduction Act

    In accordance with the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act 
of 1995 (PRA),\12\ the FDIC may not conduct or sponsor, and a 
respondent is not required to respond to, an information collection 
unless it displays a currently-valid Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB) control number. The final rule does not create new or modify 
existing information collection requirements. Accordingly, no 
submission to OMB will be made with respect to the final rule.
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    \12\ 44 U.S.C. 3501-3521.
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D. Riegle Community Development and Regulatory Improvement Act of 1994

    Pursuant to section 302(a) of the Riegle Community Development and 
Regulatory Improvement Act (RCDRIA),\13\ in determining the effective 
date and administrative compliance requirements for new regulations 
that impose additional reporting, disclosure, or other requirements on 
insured depository institutions (IDIs), each Federal banking agency 
must consider, consistent with principles of safety and soundness and 
the public interest, any administrative burdens that such regulations 
would place on depository institutions, including small depository 
institutions, and customers of depository institutions, as well as the 
benefits of such regulations. In addition, section 302(b) of RCDRIA 
requires new regulations and amendments to regulations that impose 
additional reporting, disclosures, or other new requirements on IDIs 
generally to take effect on the first day of a calendar quarter that 
begins on or after the date on which the regulations are published in 
final form.\14\ Because the final rule does not impose any reporting, 
disclosure, or other new requirements on insured depository 
institutions, the requirements of RCDRIA do not apply.
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    \13\ 12 U.S.C. 4802(a).
    \14\ Id. at 4802(b).
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E. Congressional Review Act

    For purposes of the Congressional Review Act (CRA), OMB makes a 
determination as to whether a final rule constitutes a ``major'' 
rule.\15\ If a rule is deemed a ``major rule'' by the OMB, the CRA 
generally provides that the rule may not take effect until at least 60 
days following its publication.
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    \15\ 5 U.S.C. 801 et seq.
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    The CRA defines a ``major rule'' as any rule that the Administrator 
of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs of the OMB finds 
has resulted in or is likely to result in (1) an annual effect on the 
economy of $100,000,000 or more; (2) a major increase in costs or 
prices for consumers, individual industries, Federal, State, or local 
government agencies or geographic regions, or (3) significant adverse 
effects on competition, employment, investment, productivity, 
innovation, or on the ability of United States-based enterprises to 
compete with foreign-based enterprises in domestic and export 
markets.\16\
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    \16\ 5 U.S.C. 804(2).
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    The OMB has determined that this final rule is not a major rule for 
purposes of the CRA. As required by the CRA, the FDIC will submit the 
final rule and other appropriate reports to Congress and the Government 
Accountability Office for review.

F. Plain Language

    Section 722 of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act \17\ requires each 
Federal banking agency to use plain language in all of its proposed and 
final rules published after January 1, 2000. The FDIC has sought to 
present the final rule in a simple and straightforward manner.
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    \17\ Public Law 106-102, section 722, 113 Stat. 1338, 1471 
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List of Subjects in 12 CFR Part 313

    Administrative practice and procedure, Authority delegations 
(Government agencies), Claims, Government employees, Wages.

Authority and Issuance

    For the reasons stated in the preamble and under the authority of 
12 U.S.C. 1819 (Seventh and Tenth), the FDIC amends 12 CFR part 313 as 
follows:

PART 313--PROCEDURES FOR COLLECTION OF CORPORATE DEBT, CRIMINAL 
RESTITUTION DEBT, AND CIVIL MONEY PENALTY DEBT

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1. Revise the authority citation for part 313 to read as follows:

    Authority:  5 U.S.C. 5514; 12 U.S.C. 1818(i), 1819(a); Pub. L. 
104-134, 110 Stat. 1321 (31 U.S.C. 3701, 3711, 3716).


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2. Revise the heading for part 313 to read as set forth above.

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3. Revise subpart A to read as follows:
Subpart A--Scope, Purpose, Definitions, and Delegations of Authority
Sec.
313.1 Scope.
313.2 Purpose.
313.3 Definitions.
313.4 Delegations of authority.
313.5 through 313.19 [Reserved]

Subpart A--Scope, Purpose, Definitions, and Delegations of 
Authority


Sec.  313.1   Scope.

    This part establishes the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation 
(FDIC) procedures for the collection of certain debts owed to the 
United States.
    (a) This part applies to collections by the FDIC from:
    (1) Federal employees who are indebted to the FDIC;

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    (2) Employees of the FDIC who are indebted to other agencies;
    (3) Other persons, organizations, or entities that are indebted to 
the FDIC, except those excluded in paragraph (b)(3) of this section; 
and
    (4) Civil money penalty debtors assessed civil money penalties by 
the FDIC.
    (b) This part does not apply:
    (1) To debts or claims arising under the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986 (Title 26, U.S. Code), the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 301 et 
seq.), or the tariff laws of the United States;
    (2) To a situation to which the Contract Disputes Act (41 U.S.C. 
601 et seq.) applies; or
    (3) In any case where collection of a debt is explicitly provided 
for or prohibited by another statute.
    (c) This part applies only to:
    (1) Debts owed to and payments made by the FDIC acting in its 
corporate capacity, that is, in connection with employee matters such 
as travel-related claims and erroneous overpayments, contracting act 
ivities involving corporate operations, debts related to requests to 
the FDIC for documents under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), or 
where a request for an offset is received by the FDIC from another 
Federal agency;
    (2) Criminal restitution debt owed to the FDIC in either its 
corporate capacity or its receivership capacity; and
    (3) Civil money penalties arising out of the FDIC's activities in 
its supervision or enforcement capacities.
    (4) With the exception of criminal restitution debt noted in 
paragraph (c)(2) of this section and civil money penalty debt noted in 
paragraph (c)(3) of this section, this part does not apply to debts 
owed to or payments made by the FDIC in connection with the FDIC's 
liquidation, supervision, enforcement, or insurance responsibilities, 
nor does it limit or affect the FDIC's authority with respect to debts 
or claims under 12 U.S.C. 1819(a) and 1820(a).
    (d) Subparts B through G of this part do not apply to the 
collection of civil money penalty debt.
    (e) Nothing in this part precludes the compromise, suspension, or 
termination of collection actions, where appropriate, under: Standards 
implementing the Debt Collection Improvement Act (DCIA) (31 U.S.C. 3711 
et seq.); the Federal Claims Collection Standards (FCCS) (31 CFR 
chapter IX); or any other applicable law.


Sec.  313.2   Purpose.

    (a) The purpose of this part is to implement Federal statutes and 
regulatory standards authorizing the FDIC to collect debts owed to the 
United States. This part is consistent with the following Federal 
statutes and regulations:
    (1) DCIA at 31 U.S.C. 3711 (collection and compromise of claims); 
section 3716 (administrative offset), section 3717 (interest and 
penalty on claims), and section 3718 (contracts for collection 
services);
    (2) 5 U.S.C. 5514 (salary offset);
    (3) 5 U.S.C. 5584 (waiver of claims for overpayment);
    (4) 31 CFR chapter IX (Federal Claims Collection Standards);
    (5) 5 CFR part 550, subpart K (salary offset);
    (6) 31 U.S.C. 3720D and 31 CFR 285.11 (administrative wage 
garnishment);
    (7) 26 U.S.C. 6402(d), 31 U.S.C. 3720A, and 31 CFR 285.2 (tax 
refund offset); and
    (8) 5 CFR 831.1801 through 1808 (U.S. Office of Personnel 
Management (OPM) offset).
    (b) Collectively, the statutes and regulations in paragraph (a) of 
this section prescribe the manner in which Federal agencies should 
proceed to establish the existence and validity of debts owed to the 
Federal Government and describe the remedies available to agencies to 
offset valid debts.


Sec.  313.3   Definitions.

    Except where the context clearly indicates otherwise or where the 
term is defined elsewhere in this subpart, the following definitions 
shall apply to this subpart.
    (a) Agency means a department, agency, court, court administrative 
office, or instrumentality in the executive, judicial, or legislative 
branch of Government, including Government corporations.
    (b) Board means the Board of Directors of the FDIC.
    (c) Centralized administrative offset means the mandatory referral 
to the Secretary of the Treasury by a creditor agency of a past due 
debt which is more than 180 days delinquent, for the purpose of 
collection under the Treasury's centralized offset program.
    (d) Certification means a written statement transmitted from a 
creditor agency to a paying agency for purposes of administrative or 
salary offset, to Treasury's Bureau of the Fiscal Service for offset or 
to the Secretary of the Treasury for centralized administrative offset. 
The certification confirms the existence and amount of the debt and 
verifies that required procedural protections have been afforded the 
debtor. Where the debtor requests a hearing on a claimed debt, the 
decision by a hearing official or administrative law judge constitutes 
a certification.
    (e) Chairman means the Chairman of the FDIC.
    (f) Compromise means the settlement or forgiveness of a debt under 
31 U.S.C. 3711 or 12 U.S.C. 1818(i)(2)(F) (for civil money penalties), 
in accordance with standards set forth in the FCCS and applicable 
Federal law.
    (g) Creditor agency means an agency of the Federal Government to 
which the debt is owed, or a debt collection center when acting on 
behalf of a creditor agency to collect a debt.
    (h) Debt means an amount owed to the United States from 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, penalties, damages, 
interest, restitution, fines and forfeitures, and all other similar 
sources. For purposes of this part, a debt owed to the FDIC constitutes 
a debt owed to the United States.
    (i) Debt collection center means the Department of the Treasury or 
other Government agency or division designated by the Secretary of the 
Treasury with authority to collect debts on behalf of creditor agencies 
in accordance with 31 U.S.C. 3711(g).
    (j) Director means the Director of the Division of Finance (DOF), 
the Director of the Division of Administration (DOA), the Director of 
the Division of Resolutions and Receiverships (DRR), the Director of 
the Division of Risk Management Supervision (RMS), the Director of the 
Division of Depositor and Consumer Protection (DCP), or the Director of 
the Division of Complex Institution Supervision and Resolution (CISR), 
as applicable, or the applicable Director's designee.
    (k) Disposable pay means that part of current adjusted basic pay, 
special pay, incentive pay, retired pay, retainer pay, and, in the case 
of an employee not entitled to adjusted basic pay, other authorized 
pay, remaining for each pay period after the deduction of any amount 
required by law to be withheld. The FDIC shall allow the following 
deductions in determining the amount of disposable pay that is subject 
to salary offset:
    (1) Federal employment taxes;
    (2) 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;

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    (3) Medicare deductions;
    (4) Health insurance premiums;
    (5) Normal retirement contributions, including employee 
contributions to the Thrift Savings Plan or the FDIC 401(k) Plan;
    (6) 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;
    (7) Amounts mandatorily withheld for the United States Soldiers' 
and Airmen's Home; and
    (8) Fines and forfeiture ordered by a court-martial or by a 
commanding officer.
    (l) Division of Administration (DOA) means the Division of 
Administration of the FDIC, or any successor division of the FDIC.
    (m) Division of Complex Institution Supervision and Resolution 
(CISR) means the Division of Complex Institution Supervision and 
Resolution of the FDIC, or any successor division of the FDIC.
    (n) Division of Depositor and Consumer Protection (DCP) means the 
Division of Depositor and Consumer Protection of the FDIC, or any 
successor division of the FDIC.
    (o) Division of Finance (DOF) means the Division of Finance of the 
FDIC, or any successor division of the FDIC.
    (p) Division of Resolutions and Receiverships (DRR) means the 
Division of Resolutions and Receiverships of the FDIC, or any successor 
division of the FDIC.
    (q) Division of Risk Management Supervision (RMS) means the 
Division of Risk Management Supervision of the FDIC, or any successor 
division of the FDIC.
    (r) Federal Claims Collection Standards (FCCS) means standards 
published at 31 CFR chapter IX.
    (s) Garnishment means the process of withholding amounts from the 
disposable pay of a person employed outside the Federal Government, and 
the paying of those amounts to a creditor in satisfaction of a 
withholding order.
    (t) Hearing official means an administrative law judge or other 
individual authorized to conduct a hearing and issue a final decision 
in response to a debtor's request for hearing. A hearing official may 
not be under the supervision or control of the Chairman or FDIC Board 
when the FDIC is the creditor agency.
    (u) Notice of Intent to Offset or Notice of Intent means a written 
notice from a creditor agency to an employee, organization, entity, 
restitution debtor, or civil money penalty debtor that claims a debt 
and informs the debtor that the creditor agency intends to collect the 
debt by administrative offset. The notice also informs the debtor of 
certain procedural rights with respect to the claimed debt and offset.
    (v) Notice of Salary Offset means a written notice from a paying 
agency to its employee informing the employee that salary offset to 
collect a debt due to the creditor agency will begin at the next 
officially established pay interval. The paying agency transmits this 
notice to its employee after receiving a certification from the 
creditor agency.
    (w) Paying agency means the agency of the Federal Government that 
employs the individual who owes a debt to an agency of the Federal 
Government. The same agency may be both the creditor agency and the 
paying agency.
    (x) 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.
    (y) Waiver means the cancellation, remission, forgiveness or non-
recovery of a debt allegedly owed by an employee to an agency, as 
authorized or required by 5 U.S.C. 5584 or any other law.
    (z) Withholding order means any order for withholding or 
garnishment of pay issued by an agency, or judicial or administrative 
body. For purposes of administrative wage garnishment, the terms ``wage 
garnishment order'' and ``garnishment order'' have the same meaning as 
``withholding order.''


Sec.  313.4   Delegations of authority.

    Authority to conduct the following activities is delegated as 
follows: Authority to collect debt, other than criminal restitution 
debt and civil money penalty debt, on behalf of the FDIC in its 
corporate capacity is delegated to the Director of DOA or Director of 
DOF, as applicable, or to the applicable Director's designee; and 
authority to collect criminal restitution debt on behalf of the FDIC in 
either its receivership or corporate capacity is delegated to the 
Director of DRR, or to her or his designee. These individuals, under 
the delegations in this section, may do the following:
    (a) Initiate and carry out the debt collection process on behalf of 
the FDIC, in accordance with the FCCS;
    (b) Accept or reject compromise offers and suspend or terminate 
collection actions to the full extent of the FDIC's legal authority 
under 12 U.S.C. 1819(a) and 1820(a), 31 U.S.C. 3711(a)(2), and any 
other applicable statute or regulation, provided, however, that no such 
claim shall be compromised or collection action terminated, except upon 
the concurrence of the FDIC General Counsel or his or her designee;
    (c) Report to consumer reporting agencies certain data pertaining 
to delinquent debts, where appropriate;
    (d) Use administrative offset procedures, including salary offset, 
to collect debts; and
    (e) Take any other action necessary to promptly and effectively 
collect debts owed to the United States in accordance with the policies 
contained herein and as otherwise provided by law.


Sec. Sec.  313.5 through 313.19   [Reserved]

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4. Add subpart H to read as follows:
Subpart H--Civil Money Penalty Debt
Sec.
313.181 Scope.
313.182 Purpose.
313.183 Definitions.
313.184 Collection of civil money penalty debt.
313.185 through 313.190 [Reserved]

Subpart H--Civil Money Penalty Debt


Sec.  313.181   Scope.

    This subpart establishes FDIC procedures for the collection of 
civil money penalty debt.


Sec.  313.182   Purpose.

    The purpose of this subpart is to implement Federal statutes and 
regulatory standards authorizing the FDIC to collect delinquent civil 
money penalties.


Sec.  313.183   Definitions.

    Except where the context clearly indicates otherwise or where the 
term is defined elsewhere in this subpart, the definitions provided at 
Sec.  313.3 apply to this subpart.


Sec.  313.184   Collection of civil money penalty debt.

    (a) The FDIC will follow Department of Treasury regulations set 
forth at 31 CFR part 285, as applicable and consistent with this 
subpart, for the collection of civil money penalty debt, including 
centralized offset of Federal payments to collect non-tax debts that 
may be owed to the FDIC, under 31 CFR 285.5.
    (b) Nothing in this subpart shall be construed to require the FDIC 
to provide duplicate notice or other procedural protections that have 
already been provided or afforded to a civil money penalty debtor in 
the course of administrative or judicial litigation or otherwise.
    (c) For civil money penalty debtors, and for purposes of 31 U.S.C. 
3716(b)(1),

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the FDIC adopts without change the regulations on collection by 
administrative offset set forth at 31 CFR 901.3 and other relevant 
sections of the Federal Claims Collection Standards applicable to such 
offset, to the extent those regulations are consistent with this 
subpart.
    (d) Nothing in this subpart precludes the collection of debts 
through any other available means or precludes the FDIC from engaging 
in litigation or the compromise of debt as provided under 12 U.S.C. 
1818(i) or any other applicable law or regulation.


Sec. Sec.  313.185 through 313.190   [Reserved]

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

    By order of the Board of Directors.
    Dated at Washington, DC, on December 15, 2020.
James P. Sheesley,
Assistant Executive Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2020-27955 Filed 1-8-21; 8:45 am]
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