---
kind: "section"
citation: "31 U.S.C. § 3720E"
title: "31"
title_heading: "Money and Finance"
number: "3720E"
heading: "Dissemination of information regarding identity of delinquent debtors"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/31/3720E"
units:
  - "Subtitle III — Financial Management"
  - "Chapter 37 — Claims"
  - "Subchapter II — Claims of the United States Government"
---

# §3720E. Dissemination of information regarding identity of delinquent debtors

- (a) The head of any agency may, with the review of the Secretary of the Treasury, for the purpose of collecting any delinquent [nontax](/usc/31/3701.md?p=a-8) [debt](/usc/31/3701.md?p=b-1) owed by any [person](/usc/31/3701.md?p=c), publish or otherwise publicly disseminate information regarding the identity of the [person](/usc/31/3701.md?p=c) and the existence of the [nontax](/usc/31/3701.md?p=a-8) [debt](/usc/31/3701.md?p=b-1).
- (b)
  - (1) The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and the heads of other appropriate Federal agencies, shall issue regulations establishing procedures and requirements the Secretary considers appropriate to carry out this section.
  - (2) Regulations under this subsection shall include—
    - (A) standards for disseminating information that maximize collections of delinquent [nontax](/usc/31/3701.md?p=a-8) [debts](/usc/31/3701.md?p=b-1), by directing actions under this section toward delinquent debtors that have assets or income sufficient to pay their delinquent [nontax](/usc/31/3701.md?p=a-8) [debt](/usc/31/3701.md?p=b-1);
    - (B) procedures and requirements that prevent dissemination of information under this section regarding [persons](/usc/31/3701.md?p=c) who have not had an opportunity to verify, contest, and compromise their [nontax](/usc/31/3701.md?p=a-8) [debt](/usc/31/3701.md?p=b-1) in accordance with this subchapter; and
    - (C) procedures to ensure that [persons](/usc/31/3701.md?p=c) are not incorrectly identified pursuant to this section.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 104–134, title III, § 31001(r)(1), Apr. 26, 1996, 110 Stat. 1321–372.)