§ 3701. Definitions and application
(a)
In this chapter—
(1)
“administrative offset” means withholding funds payable by the United States (including funds payable by the United States on behalf of a State government) to, or held by the United States for, a person to satisfy a claim.
(2)
“calendar quarter” means a 3-month period beginning on January 1, April 1, July 1, or October 1.
(3)
“consumer reporting agency” means—
(4)
“executive, judicial, or legislative agency” means a department, agency, court, court administrative office, or instrumentality in the executive, judicial, or legislative branch of Government, including government corporations.
(b)
(1)
In subchapter II of this chapter and subsection (a)(8) of this section, the term “claim” or “debt” means 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. A claim includes, without limitation—
(A)
funds owed on account of loans made, insured, or guaranteed by the Government, including any deficiency or any difference between the price obtained by the Government in the sale of a property and the amount owed to the Government on a mortgage on the property,
(B)
expenditures of nonappropriated funds, including actual and administrative costs related to shoplifting, theft detection, and theft prevention,
(C)
over-payments, including payments disallowed by audits performed by the Inspector General of the agency administering the program,
(2)
For purposes of section
3716 of this title, each of the terms “claim” and “debt” includes an amount of funds or property owed by a person to a State (including any past-due support being enforced by the State), the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, the United States Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
(c)
In sections
3716 and
3717 of this title, the term “person” does not include an agency of the United States Government.
(d)
Sections
3711
(e) and
3716–3719 of this title do not apply to a claim or debt under, or to an amount payable under—
(e)
In section
3716 of this title—
(f)
In section
3711 of this title, “private collection contractor” means private debt collectors under contract with an agency to collect a nontax debt or claim owed the United States. The term includes private debt collectors, collection agencies, and commercial attorneys.
[1] So in original. The semicolon probably should be a comma.