farm-program · Farm Service Agency · Rule · Published 2020-06-17 · Effective 2020-06-17 · 85 FR 36670
Document
Document number
2020-09447
Federal Register citation
85 FR 36670
CFR reference
7 CFR 3
Type
Rule
Action
Final rule.
Category
farm-program
Sub-agency
Farm Service Agency
Publication date
2020-06-17
Effective date
2020-06-17
USDA docket
Docket ID USDA-2019-0007
Abstract
The general debt management regulations of the Department of Agriculture (USDA) provide that individual USDA agencies may issue regulations for their own specific debt collection activities principally in recognition that the agencies conducted debt collection activities prior to the enactment of the Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996 (DCIA). Many of the provisions of individual agencies are redundant to part 3. This rule will eliminate the debt collection regulations of the following USDA agencies, and part 3 will be revised to include specific provisions used by these agencies: the Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC); the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC), and the Farm Service Agency (FSA). In addition, as required by the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Improvements Act of 2015 (the 2015 Civil Penalties Act), this rule updates the size of civil monetary penalties to reflect inflationary adjustments for 2020.