{
  "id": "USC-69",
  "category": "Government debt recovery",
  "capability": "Collect, compromise or offset debts owed to the Government",
  "summary": "Collect agency debts, compromise or end eligible collection actions, use administrative offset after required process, and contract for debt-collection services while retaining sovereign decisions.",
  "legal_basis": [
    {
      "citation": "31 U.S.C. § 3711",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title31/html/USCODE-2024-title31-subtitleIII-chap37-subchapII-sec3711.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks."
    },
    {
      "citation": "31 U.S.C. § 3716",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title31/html/USCODE-2024-title31-subtitleIII-chap37-subchapII-sec3716.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks."
    },
    {
      "citation": "31 U.S.C. § 3718",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title31/html/USCODE-2024-title31-subtitleIII-chap37-subchapII-sec3718.htm",
      "kind": "statute",
      "note": "Official 2024 Code operative text read; see record currentness for later-law checks."
    }
  ],
  "authority_holder": "Head of the agency; Treasury/Justice roles as specified",
  "actor_chain": {
    "planner": [
      "Component debt-management office (illustrative routing lead)"
    ],
    "resource_owner": [
      "Cognizant component comptroller; account and available balance unverified"
    ],
    "approver": [
      "Head of the agency; Treasury/Justice roles as specified"
    ],
    "executor": [
      "Authorized collection/disbursing and contracting officials (illustrative; delegation not verified)"
    ],
    "partners": [
      "Treasury",
      "Department of Justice"
    ]
  },
  "actor_sources": [
    {
      "title": "31 U.S.C. § 3711 statutory holder and conditions",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title31/html/USCODE-2024-title31-subtitleIII-chap37-subchapII-sec3711.htm"
    },
    {
      "title": "31 U.S.C. § 3716 statutory holder and conditions",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title31/html/USCODE-2024-title31-subtitleIII-chap37-subchapII-sec3716.htm"
    },
    {
      "title": "31 U.S.C. § 3718 statutory holder and conditions",
      "url": "https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2024-title31/html/USCODE-2024-title31-subtitleIII-chap37-subchapII-sec3718.htm"
    }
  ],
  "requirements": [
    "Debt validation and notice, records access, review and repayment opportunity precede administrative offset; prescribed standards and regulations apply.",
    "Agency retains compromise, dispute-resolution and litigation-referral decisions when using collectors."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "Ordinary §3711 compromise authority capped at $100,000 excluding interest or higher amount prescribed by Attorney General; fraud/false claims and antitrust claims excluded.",
    "Contractual recovery of assets held by state government or financial institution requires Treasury-approved procedures; statutory exemptions and protected payments remain."
  ],
  "funding": [
    "Available administrative funds and any expressly allowed collection-fee arrangement; no unrestricted retention of all recovered money."
  ],
  "coordination_path": "Mission sponsor → component counsel and comptroller → required statutory findings and approvals → authorized execution office. Routing is illustrative; verify delegation and available funds.",
  "availability": "Statutory-review addition. Current program implementation, intake, available funds, and individual signing authority have not been verified.",
  "confidence": "High on the cited statutory mechanism; no implementation or obligation-ready certification.",
  "currentness": "Reviewed 2026-10-05 against full official GovInfo 2024 Code text and a targeted P.L. 119-60 reference sweep. Official OLRC indexed text used where accessible; direct OLRC pages returned maintenance or access errors. No comprehensive later-law certification or current funding/delegation verification.",
  "family": "Enterprise resources and shared execution",
  "last_reviewed": "2026-10-05",
  "supplement": "usc-review-2026-10-05",
  "implementation_caution": "Statutory-source review only. A current implementing program, open intake, available funds and individual delegation were not verified.",
  "usc_review_notes": [
    "Added in the October 5 statutory coverage review. The cited legal mechanism and its conditions were examined; a current implementing program, intake, funding balance and individual delegation were not verified."
  ],
  "mechanisms": [
    "Other statutory tools"
  ],
  "goal_ids": [
    "funding-execution"
  ],
  "office_links": [
    {
      "office_id": "comptrollers",
      "role": "resource_owner",
      "label": "Cognizant component comptroller; account and available balance unverified"
    }
  ],
  "family_slug": "enterprise-resources-and-shared-execution",
  "instrument_groups": [
    "Other statutory tools"
  ],
  "executor_route": {
    "id": "execution-usc-69",
    "name": "Authorized collection/disbursing and contracting officials (illustrative; delegation not verified)",
    "label": "Authorized collection/disbursing and contracting officials (illustrative; delegation not verified)",
    "url": "/offices/execution/usc-69/",
    "basis": "Recorded executing role; this record-specific route is not an additional institutional office."
  },
  "program_context": [],
  "program_research": null,
  "checks": [
    {
      "key": "legal",
      "label": "Legal basis",
      "state": "Sources linked",
      "detail": "Legal sources and instrument limits are recorded."
    },
    {
      "key": "eligibility",
      "label": "Requirements",
      "state": "Gates recorded",
      "detail": "Read the requirements for this instrument; applicability depends on the proposed action."
    },
    {
      "key": "funds",
      "label": "Public funding",
      "state": "Rules recorded",
      "detail": "Available administrative funds and any expressly allowed collection-fee arrangement; no unrestricted retention of all recovered money. Office budget figures are separate institutional context, not an allocation to this instrument.",
      "url": "/capabilities/usc-69/#funding"
    },
    {
      "key": "delegation",
      "label": "Assigned roles",
      "state": "Roles recorded",
      "detail": "Public sources describe institutional authority. The instrument identifies approval and execution roles; a specific signature remains transaction-dependent.",
      "url": "/capabilities/usc-69/#roles"
    },
    {
      "key": "execution",
      "label": "Engagement",
      "state": "Program unverified",
      "detail": "Added in the October 5 statutory review; no current implementing program, intake or individual delegation verified.",
      "url": "/sources/usc/"
    }
  ],
  "hard_limit": "Ordinary §3711 compromise authority capped at $100,000 excluding interest or higher amount prescribed by Attorney General; fraud/false claims and antitrust claims excluded."
}