US Code
CHAPTER 157— TRANSPORTATION
§ 2636. Deductions from amounts due carriers

(a) Amounts for Loss or Damage.—An amount deducted from an amount due a carrier shall be credited as follows:(1) If deducted because of loss of or damage to material in transit for a military department, the amount shall be credited to the proper appropriation, account, or fund from which the same or similar material may be replaced.
(2) If deducted as an administrative offset for an overpayment previously made to the carrier under any Department of Defense contract for transportation services or as liquidated damages due under any such contract, the amount shall be credited to the appropriation or account from which payments for the transportation services were made.
(b) Simplified Offset for Collection of Claims Not in Excess of the Simplified Acquisition Threshold.—(1) In any case in which the total amount of a claim for the recovery of overpayments or liquidated damages under a contract described in subsection (a)(2) does not exceed the simplified acquisition threshold, the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary concerned, in exercising the authority to collect the claim by administrative offset under section 3716 of title 31, may apply paragraphs (2) and (3) of subsection (a) of that section with respect to that collection after (rather than before) the claim is so collected.
(2) Regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense under subsection (b) of section 3716 of title 31—(A) shall include provisions to carry out paragraph (1); and
(B) shall provide the carrier for a claim subject to paragraph (1) with an opportunity to offer an alternative method of repaying the claim (rather than by administrative offset) if the collection of the claim by administrative offset has not already been made.
(3) In this subsection, the term “simplified acquisition threshold” has the meaning given that term in section 134 of title 41.

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Title 10— ARMED FORCES

Subtitle A— General Military Law

PART IV— SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROPERTY

CHAPTER 157— TRANSPORTATION

§ 2631. Preference for United States vessels in transporting supplies by sea

§ 2631a. Contingency planning: sealift and related intermodal transportation requirements

§ 2632. Transportation to and from certain places of employment and on military installations

§ 2633. Stevedoring and terminal services: vessels carrying cargo or passengers sponsored by military department

[§ 2634. Repealed. , , ]

§ 2635. Medical emergency helicopter transportation assistance and limitation of individual liability

§ 2636. Deductions from amounts due carriers

§ 2636a. Loss or damage to personal property transported at Government expense: full replacement value; deduction from amounts due carriers

§ 2637. Transportation in certain areas outside the United States

§ 2638. Transportation of civilian clothing of enlisted members

§ 2639. Transportation to and from school for certain minor dependents

§ 2640. Charter air transportation of members of the armed forces or cargo

§ 2641. Transportation of certain veterans on Department of Defense aeromedical evacuation aircraft

§ 2641a. Transportation of American Samoa veterans on Department of Defense aircraft for certain medical care in Hawaii

§ 2641b. Space-available travel on Department of Defense aircraft: program authorized and eligible recipients

§ 2642. Transportation services provided to certain non-Department of Defense agencies and entities: use of Department of Defense reimbursement rate

§ 2643. Commissary and exchange services: transportation overseas

§ 2644. Control of transportation systems in time of war

§ 2645. Indemnification of Department of Transportation for losses covered by vessel war risk insurance

§ 2646. Travel services: procurement for official and unofficial travel under one contract

§ 2647. Next-of-kin of persons unaccounted for from conflicts after World War II: transportation to annual meetings

§ 2648. Persons and supplies: sea, land, and air transportation

§ 2649. Civilian passengers and commercial cargoes: transportation on Department of Defense vessels, vehicles, and aircraft

§ 2650. Civilian personnel in Alaska

§ 2651. Passengers and merchandise to Guam: sea transport

§ 2652. Prohibition on charge of certain tariffs on aircraft traveling through channel routes