Debt Management

Document Headings Document headings vary by document type but may contain the following: the agency or agencies that issued and signed a document the number of the CFR title and the number of each part the document amends, proposes to amend, or is directly related to the agency docket number / agency internal file number the RIN which identifies each regulatory action listed in the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions See the Document Drafting Handbook for more details. Department of Agriculture Office of the Secretary Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Farm Service Agency Commodity Credit Corporation Farm Service Agency Rural Housing Service Rural Business-Cooperative Service Rural Utilities Service 7 CFR Part 3 7 CFR Part 400 7 CFR Parts 761, 765, 766, 772, and 792 7 CFR Part 1403 7 CFR Parts 1951 and 1956 [Docket ID USDA-2019-0007] RIN 0560-AA16 AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, Commodity Credit Corporation, Farm Service Agency, Federal Crop Insurance Corporation, Rural Housing Service, Rural Business-Cooperative Service, and Rural Utilities Service, USDA. ACTION: Final rule. SUMMARY: 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 s…