| Tax
Refund Offset:
Reduction of a debtor's
tax overpayments by
the amount of legally
enforceable debt owed
to a federal agency.
A tax refund offset
is a type of administrative
offset. |
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| Taxpayer Identification Number
(TIN): Social Security
Number (SSN) for individuals or the Employee Identification
Number (EIN) for business organizations or non-profit
entities. |
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| TE-045
Innovative Finance Initiative:
A research program begun by the Federal Highway Administration
in 1994 in response to Executive Order 12893. This finance
initiative is designed to increase investment, accelerate
projects, promote the use of existing innovative finance
provisions, and establish the basis for future initiatives
by waiving selected federal policies and procedures, thus
allowing specific transportation projects to be advanced
through the use of non-traditional finance mechanisms.
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| Terminate
Collection Action:
Ceasing active collection
of a debt. The act
of removing the debt
from accounting records
is to "write off."
A decision to terminate
collection action
occurs concurrently
with the write-off.
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| Title 23 of the United States
Code: Highway title that
includes many of the laws governing the federal-aid highway
program. The title embodies substantive provisions of
law that Congress considers permanent and need not be
reenacted in each new highway authorization act. |
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| Title
49 of the United States Code:
Transportation title that includes laws governing various
transportation-related programs and agencies, including
the Department of Transportation, general and intermodal
programs, interstate commerce, rail and motor vehicle
programs, aviation programs, pipelines, and commercial
space transportation. |
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| Turnkey:
A generic term for a variety of public/private partnership
arrangements whereby a public sector entity awards a contract
to one or more private firms to undertake the development,
construction, and/or operation of an infrastructure project
for a predetermined period of time before turning the
project back over to the public entity. Turnkeys may take
various forms, including design-build-transfer and build-operate-transfer.
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