# Collection of Claims Owed the United States
> **US Department of Energy** · Direct final rule. · Published 2003-08-14 · Effective 2003-11-12 · 68 FR 48531
## Document
- **Document number:** 03-20378
- **Category:** other
- **Sub-agency:** US Department of Energy
- **Federal Register citation:** 68 FR 48531
- **CFR reference:** 10 CFR 1015
- **Publication date:** 2003-08-14
- **Effective date:** 2003-11-12
## Abstract

This direct final rule adopts revisions to the regulations on Collection of Claims Owed the United States to conform to the Federal Claims Collection Standards issued by the Department of the Treasury and the Department of Justice. The revisions clarify and simplify the Department of Energy's debt collection standards and reflect changes to Federal debt collection procedures that were made by the Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996 and the General Accounting Office Act of 1996.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2003/08/14/03-20378/collection-of-claims-owed-the-united-states)
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