§ 102.1 - Aggressive agency collection action.

(a) Each Federal agency shall take aggressive action, on a timely basis with effective followup, to collect all claims of the United States for money or property arising out of the activities of, or referred to, that agency in accordance with the standards set forth in this chapter. However, nothing contained in this chapter is intended to require the General Accounting Office or the Department of Justice to duplicate collection actions previously undertaken by any other agency, or to perform collection actions which should have been undertaken by any other agency in accordance with the standards set forth in this chapter.

(b) All agencies are expected to cooperate with one another in their debt collection activities.