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 PUBLIC LAW 97-365—OCT. 25, 1982 Public Law 97-365 97th Congress

96 STAT. 1749

An Act To increase the efficiency of Government-wide efforts to collect debts owed the United States and to provide additional procedures for the collection of debts owed the United States.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That this Act may be cited as the "Debt Collection Act of 1982".

Oct. 25, 1982 [H.R. 4613] Debt Collection Act of 1982. 5 USC 5514 note.

AMENDMENTS TO THE PRIVACY ACT

SEC. 2. (a) Section 552a(b) of title 5, United States Code, is amended— (1) by striking out "or" at the end of paragraph (10); (2) by striking out the period at the end of paragraph (11) and inserting in lieu thereof "; or"; and (3) by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph: "(12) to a consumer reporting agency in accordance with section 3(d) of the Federal Claims Collection Act of 1966 (31 U.S.C. 952(d)).". (b) Section 552a(m) of such title is amended— (1) by inserting "(1)" immediately after "(m)"; and (2) by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph: "(2) A consumer reporting agency to which a record is disclosed under section 3(d) of the Federal Claims Collection Act of 1966 (31 U.S.C. 952(d)) shall not be considered a contractor for the purposes of this section.".

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AMENDMENT TO THE FEDERAL CLAIMS COLLECTION ACT OF 1966

SEC. 3. Section 3 of the Federal Claims Collection Act of 1966 (31 U.S.C. 952) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: "(d)(1) Whenever the head of an agency attempts to collect a claim of the United States under subsection (a) of this section, or under any other statutory authority except the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, the head of the agency may disclose to a consumer reporting agency information from a system of records that an individual is responsible for a claim if— "(A) the notice for the system of records required by section 552a(e)(4) of title 5, United States Code, indicates that information in the system may be disclosed to a consumer reporting agency; "(B) the head of the agency has reviewed the claim and determined that such claim is valid and overdue; "(C) the head of the agency has sent a written notice to the individual informing such individual— "(i) that the payment of the claim is overdue; "(ii) that the agency intends to disclose to a consumer reporting agency, within not less than sixty days after

Information disclosure. 26 USC 1 et seq.

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