---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 C.F.R. § 15.23"
title: "10"
number: "15.23"
heading: "Telephone or internet inquiries and investigations."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/10/15.23"
---

# §15.23. Telephone or internet inquiries and investigations.

- (a) If a debtor has not responded to one or more demands, the NRC shall make reasonable efforts by telephone or internet to determine the debtor's intentions.
- (b) The NRC may undertake an investigation to locate a debtor if the whereabouts of a debtor is a problem, or if a debtor cannot be contacted by telephone.
- (c) The NRC, under [15 U.S.C. 1681(f)](/usc/15/1681.md?p=f), may obtain consumer credit information from private firms, including the name, address, former addresses, place of employment, and former places of employment of a debtor.

## Notes

### Amendments

[47 FR 7616, Feb. 22, 1982, as amended at 67 FR 30319, May 6, 2002]

### Authority

Authority: Atomic Energy Act of 1954, secs. 161, 186 (42 U.S.C. 2201, 2236); Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, sec. 201 (42 U.S.C. 5841); 5 U.S.C. 5514; 26 U.S.C. 6402; 31 U.S.C. 3701, 3713, 3716, 3719, 3720A; 42 U.S.C. 664; 44 U.S.C. 3504 note; 31 CFR parts 900 through 904; 31 CFR part 285; E.O. 12146, 44 FR 42657, 3 CFR, 1979 Comp., p. 409; E.O. 12988, 61 FR 4729, 3 CFR, 1996 Comp., p. 157.

### Source

Source: 47 FR 7616, Feb. 22, 1982, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[47 FR 7616, Feb. 22, 1982, as amended at 67 FR 30319, May 6, 2002]