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OPM
OFFICE OF PERSONNEL SUMMARY: The following Office of binding obligation on the Office of MANAGEMENT Personnel Management (OPM) Personnel Management with regard to regulations are scheduled for any specific item on the agenda. 5 CFR Ch. I development or review from April 1, Regulatory action in addition to the 1998, through March 31, 1999. This items listed is not precluded. agenda carries out OPM’s Regulatory Agenda responsibilities to publish a semiannual FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: AGENCY: Office of Personnel agenda under E.O. 12866 ‘‘Regulatory Jacquline D. Carter, (202) 606-1973. Management. Planning and Review’’ and the Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. U.S. Office of Personnel Management. ACTION: Semiannual regulatory agenda. chapter 6). This publication in the Janice R. Lachance, Federal Register does not impose a Director. Prerule Stage
Sequence Regulation Title Identifier Number Number
3767 Availability of Official Information ...... 3206-AG92
Proposed Rule Stage
Regulation Sequence Title Identifier Number Number
3768 Appointment of Noncitizens in the Excepted Service ...... 3206-AH52 3769 Personnel Records ...... 3206-AH24 3770 Employment in the Excepted Service ...... 3206-AH83 3771 Career and Career-Conditional Appointment Under Special Authorities ...... 3206-AG90 3772 Non-Competitive Appointment of Former Peace Corps and Vista Volunteers ...... 3206-AI18 3773 Merit Promotion and Internal Placement ...... 3206-AI20 3774 Clarification of Various Staffing Provisions ...... 3206-AH49 3775 Other Than Full-Time Employment (Part-Time, Seasonal, Intermittent) ...... 3206-AI22 3776 Reduction in Force Service Credit; Retention Records ...... 3206-AI09 3777 Re-Employment Rights ...... 3206-AI19 3778 Performance Ratings ...... 3206-AH77 3779 Superior Qualifications Appointments ...... 3206-AI00 3780 Miscellaneous Changes in Compensation Regulations ...... 3206-AH11 3781 Prevailing Rate Systems; Changing the Helper (Trades) WG-5 Survey Job from Required to Optional ...... 3206-AH81 3782 Severance Pay: Miscellaneous ...... 3206-AH12 3783 Pay Administration (General); Collection by Offset From Indebted Government Employees ...... 3206-AH63 3784 Pay Administration Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ...... 3206-AI15 3785 Agency Determinations on Payment of Relocation Costs ...... 3206-AH50 3786 Federal Equal Opportunity Recruitment Program (FEORP) ...... 3206-AH98 3787 Disabled Veterans Affirmative Action Program (DVAAP) ...... 3206-AH99 3788 Federal Employees' Health and Counseling Programs ...... 3206-AI07 3789 Retirement; CSRS and FERS Amendments Relating to Health Care Professionals ...... 3206-AG57 3790 Retirement; Credit for Military Service ...... 3206-AG58 3791 Retirement; Determinations of Marital Status for Survivor Annuities ...... 3206-AG60 3792 Retirement; Service Credit ...... 3206-AH37 3793 Retirement; Waiver of Military Retired Pay to Enhance Civil Service Retirement Annuity ...... 3206-AH74 3794 Retirement; Elimination of the Hearing Requirement During Enforcement of Statutory Bar to Annuity After Convic- tion of Certain Offenses ...... 3206-AH76 3795 Retirement; State Income Tax Withholding Instrumentalities ...... 3206-AH62 3796 Retirement; Debt Collection ...... 3206-AE72 3797 Retirement; Court Orders Awarding Survivor Annuities; Correcting or Supplementing the First Order Dividing Mari- tal Property ...... 3206-AG28 3798 Retirement; FERS Elections of Coverage ...... 3206-AG96 3799 Federal Employee's Group Life Insurance Program: Miscellaneous Changes and Clarifications ...... 3206-AG63 3800 Federal Employees Health Benefits Program; Improving Contract Performance ...... 3206-AI16
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Final Rule Stage
Regulation Sequence Title Identifier Number Number
3801 Student Educational Employment Program ...... 3206-AH82 3802 Appointment of Non-Status Employees (USERRA) ...... 3206-AI23 3803 Time-In-Grade Restrictions ...... 3206-AG06 3804 Temporary and Term Employment ...... 3206-AH47 3805 Promotion and Internal Placement; Accelerated Qualifications ...... 3206-AG19 3806 Moratorium on Involuntary SES Reassignments ...... 3206-AH92 3807 Job Listings; Full Consideration of Displaced Defense Employees ...... 3206-AF36 3808 Merit Promotion Placement ...... 3206-AI21 3809 Reduction in Force; Retreat Rights ...... 3206-AG77 3810 Reduction in Force and Mandatory Temporary Exceptions ...... 3206-AH64 3811 Reduction in Force and Vacant Positions ...... 3206-AH95 3812 Restoration to Duty From Military Service or Compensable Injury ...... 3206-AG02 3813 Training ...... 3206-AH94 3814 Official Duty Station Determinations for Pay Purposes ...... 3206-AH84 3815 Prevailing Rate Systems; Redefinition of the Norfolk, MA, Nonappropriated Fund Wage Area ...... 3206-AH58 3816 Prevailing Rate Systems; Redefinition of the Marion, IN, Nonappropriated Fund Wage Area ...... 3206-AH60 3817 Holiday and Premium Pay ...... 3206-AH86 3818 Prevailing Rate Systems; Abolishment of Lubbock Nonappropriated Fund Wage Area ...... 3206-AH88 3819 Prevailing Rate Systems: Abolishment of the Orlando, FL Appropriated Fund Wage Area ...... 3206-AI04 3820 Prevailing Rate Systems; Removal of Umatilla County, OR, from Spokane, WA, Nonappropriated Fund Wage Area 3206-AI10 3821 Prevailing Rate Systems; Abolishment of Kansas City, MO, Special Wage Schedule for Printing Positions ...... 3206-AI11 3822 Prevailing Rate Systems; Redefinition of the Orlando, Fl, Appropriated Fund Wage Area ...... 3206-AI13 3823 Voluntary Separation Incentive Repayment Waivers ...... 3206-AG20 3824 Pay Administration; Availability Pay for Criminal Investigators ...... 3206-AG47 3825 Lump-Sum Payments for Annual Leave ...... 3206-AF38 3826 Cost-of-Living Allowance in Nonforeign Areas: Survey Results ...... 3206-AH07 3827 Emergency Leave Transfer Program ...... 3206-AI03 3828 Retirement; Coverage - Non-Appropriated Fund Instrumentalities ...... 3206-AH57 3829 Revised Application Procedures for Disability Retirement Under CSRS and FERS ...... 3206-AH68 3830 Coverage for Certain Employees of DC ...... 3206-AI02 3831 Retirement Coverage for DC Financial Control Board Employees ...... 3206-AG78 3832 Retirement; FERS Basic Annuity ...... 3206-AE73 3833 Federal Employees Health Benefits Program: Payment of Premiums for Periods of Leave Without Pay or Insuffi- cient Pay ...... 3206-AG66 3834 Federal Employees Health Benefits Program: Disenrollment ...... 3206-AH61 3835 FEHBP: Removal of Minimum Salary Requirement ...... 3206-AI05 3836 Appointment, Pay, and Removal of Administrative Law Judges ...... 3206-AI08
Long-Term Actions
Regulation Sequence Title Identifier Number Number
3837 Claims Collections Standards; Debt Collection Act of 1982; Salary Offset ...... 3206-AG64 3838 Noncompetitive Appointments of Corporation for National Service Employees ...... 3206-AH48 3839 Interagency Placement Program ...... 3206-AI24 3840 Performance Management Reform ...... 3206-AF57 3841 Classification Appeals of General Schedule Employees ...... 3206-AH38 3842 Job Grading Reviews and Appeals of Federal Wage System Employees ...... 3206-AI14 3843 SuitabilityÐSuitability Disqualification/Rating Actions ...... 3206-AC19 3844 Personnel Security and Related Programs ...... 3206-AC21 3845 Investigations ...... 3206-AB92 3846 Debarments, Civil Monetary Penalties, and Assessments Imposed Against Providers ...... 3206-AD76
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Completed Actions
Regulation Sequence Title Identifier Number Number
3847 Procedures for Settling Claims ...... 3206-AH89 3848 Fellowship and Similar Appointments in the Excepted Service ...... 3206-AH91 3849 Agency Relationships with Organizations Representing Federal Employees and Other Organizations ...... 3206-AH72 3850 Amendment to Selective Service Registration Requirements ...... 3206-AD68 3851 RIF and Performance Management ...... 3206-AH32 3852 Pay Under the General Schedule; Locality Pay Areas for 1998 ...... 3206-AH65 3853 Prevailing Rate Systems; Survey Order Month Change for Jefferson, New York, Nonappropriated Fund Wage Area ...... 3206-AH80 3854 Prevailing Rate Systems; Survey Order Month Change for Jefferson, NY, Nonappropriated Fund Wage Area ...... 3206-AI01 3855 Prevailing Rate Systems; Removal of Putnam, Richmond, and Rockland Counties, NY, and Monmouth County, NJ, from the New York, NY, Appropriated Fund Survey Area ...... 3206-AI06 3856 Pay Administration Under the FLSA ...... 3206-AG70 3857 Processing Garnishment Orders for Child Support and/or Alimony and Commercial Garnishment of Federal Em- ployees' Pay ...... 3206-AH43 3858 Cost-of-Living Allowances and Post Differentials (Nonforeign Areas; Miscellaneous Changes) ...... 3206-AH51 3859 Political ActivityÐFederal Employees Residing in Designated Localities ...... 3206-AF78 3860 Federal Employees' Health and Counseling Programs ...... 3206-AH93 3861 Retirement and Insurance Benefits During Periods of Unexplained Absence ...... 3206-AH75 3862 Retirement and InsuranceÐWaiver From Continuity of Coverage Requirements for Certain Decennial Census Em- ployees with Dual Appointments ...... 3206-AI12
OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT (OPM) Prerule Stage
Prerule StageOPM
3767. AVAILABILITY OF OFFICIAL addressees, and clarify that any written Timetable: INFORMATION request that meets the specified Action Date FR Cite Priority: Info./Admin./Other marking and content requirements will be recognized as an official FOIA ANPRM 07/00/98 Legal Authority: 5 USC 552 Freedom request. These changes are designed to Final Action 10/00/98 of Information Act benefit the public by providing updated Small Entities Affected: None CFR Citation: 5 CFR 294 information on where to direct FOIA Government Levels Affected: None requests, and improve the wording of Legal Deadline: None the regulation to fully and accurately Agency Contact: Bruce Tarpinian, Abstract: The proposed rulemaking meet the provisions of the FOIA. There Office of Information Technology, will make minor changes to subpart A will be no significant change to the Office of Personnel Management, 1900 of 5 CFR 294, Availability of Official existing operational procedures in place E St. NW., Washington, DC 20415-0001 Phone: 202 418-3212 Information Act. The rulemaking will at OPM. provide additional information on the Fax: 202 418-3251 definition of terms used in the search Email: [email protected] and review process, update office RIN: 3206–AG92
OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT (OPM) Proposed Rule Stage
Proposed Rule StageOPM
3768. APPOINTMENT OF duplication, or streamline noncitizens in the absence of qualified NONCITIZENS IN THE EXCEPTED requirements. citizens. Individual agency authorities SERVICE Legal Authority: 5 USC 3301; 5 USC for this purpose will no longer be needed. Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant 3302 CFR Citation: 5 CFR 213.3102(bb) Timetable: Reinventing Government: This Legal Deadline: None rulemaking is part of the Reinventing Action Date FR Cite Government effort. It will revise text in Abstract: Revises existing government- NPRM 12/00/98 the CFR to reduce burden or wide excepted service appointment authority for the appointment of Small Entities Affected: None
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Government Levels Affected: None duplication, or streamline Phone: 202 606-0830 Agency Contact: Sylvia Cole, Staffing requirements. TDD: 202 606-0023 Reinvention Office, Employment Legal Authority: 5 USC 1302; 5 USC Fax: 202 606-2329 Service, Office of Personnel 3301; 5 USC 3302; 5 USC 8151; EO RIN: 3206–AG90 Management, 1900 E St. NW., 10577 Washington, DC 20415 CFR Citation: 5 CFR 302 3772. ∑ NON-COMPETITIVE Phone: 202 606-1386 APPOINTMENT OF FORMER PEACE Fax: 202 606-2329 Legal Deadline: None CORPS AND VISTA VOLUNTEERS RIN: 3206–AH52 Abstract: The revised regulations will make it easier for agencies to Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant understand how to run the excepted Legal Authority: EO 11103; 42 USC 3769. PERSONNEL RECORDS service employment system, and thus 5055 create better and more efficient Priority: Info./Admin./Other CFR Citation: 5 CFR 315 employment procedures. Reinventing Government: This Legal Deadline: None rulemaking is part of the Reinventing Timetable: Abstract: Updates authority that grants Government effort. It will revise text in Action Date FR Cite former Peace Corps and Vista the CFR to reduce burden or NPRM 04/00/98 volunteers an eligibility for duplication, or streamline noncompetitive appointment to the requirements. Small Entities Affected: None Federal Competitive Service. Eliminates Legal Authority: 5 USC 552; 5 USC Government Levels Affected: None reference to the abolished ACTION 4315; EO 12107; 5 USC 1103; 5 USC Agency Contact: Tina Vay, agency 1104; 5 USC 1302; EO 9830; 5 USC Employment Service, Staffing Timetable: 2951; 5 USC 3301; EO 12107 Reinvention Office, Office of Personnel Action Date FR Cite CFR Citation: 5 CFR 293 Management, 1900 E St. NW., Washington, DC 20415 NPRM 04/00/98 Legal Deadline: None Phone: 202 606-0830 Small Entities Affected: None Abstract: The regulatory changes will: TDD: 202 606-0023 (1) simplify the requirements for Fax: 202 606-0390 Government Levels Affected: None maintaining employee personnel RIN: 3206–AH83 Agency Contact: Mike Carmichael, records, (2) clarify agency responsibility Employment Service, Staffing for personnel recordkeeping as Reinvention Office, Office of Personnel delegated by the regulation, and (3) 3771. CAREER AND CAREER- Management, 1900 E St. NW., give greater latitude to agencies in CONDITIONAL APPOINTMENT UNDER Washington, DC 20415 establishing and maintaining employee SPECIAL AUTHORITIES Phone: 202 606-0830 medical and performance records. Priority: Info./Admin./Other Fax: 202 606-2329 Timetable: Legal Authority: 5 USC 1302; 5 USC RIN: 3206–AI18 Action Date FR Cite 3301; 5 USC 3302; 5 USC 3304(d); 5 USC 8151; 5 USC 11219; EO 10577; EO NPRM 04/00/98 3773. ∑ MERIT PROMOTION AND 12034; EO 12721; 22 USC 2506; 22 USC INTERNAL PLACEMENT Small Entities Affected: None 3651; 22 USC 3652 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Government Levels Affected: None CFR Citation: 5 CFR 315 Legal Authority: 5 USC 3301; 5 USC Agency Contact: Linda Brick, Office of Legal Deadline: None 3302; 5 USC 3329 Merit Systems Oversight and Abstract: Revises a group of special Effectiveness, Office of Personnel CFR Citation: 5 CFR 316; 5 CFR 335; appointment authorities to clarify 5 CFR 338 Management, Personnel Records and requirements and to eliminate obsolete Systems, 1900 E St. NW., Washington, provisions. Also adds authorities for Legal Deadline: None DC 20415 specific noncompetitive appointments Abstract: Gives agencies greater Phone: 202 606-1126 authorities by law. flexibility to design internal selection Fax: 202 606-1719 systems consistent with merit Email: [email protected] Timetable: principles and other applicable statues. RIN: Action Date FR Cite 3206–AH24 Timetable: NPRM 06/00/98 Action Date FR Cite 3770. EMPLOYMENT IN THE Small Entities Affected: None EXCEPTED SERVICE NPRM 06/00/98 Government Levels Affected: None Priority: Small Entities Affected: None Substantive, Nonsignificant Agency Contact: Karen Jacobs, Reinventing Government: This Employment Service, Office of Government Levels Affected: None rulemaking is part of the Reinventing Personnel Management, Staffing Agency Contact: Karen Jacobs, Government effort. It will revise text in Reinvention Office, 1900 E St. NW., Employment Service, Staffing the CFR to reduce burden or Washington, DC 20415 Reinvention Office, Office of Personnel
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Management, 1900 E St. NW., Timetable: Timetable: Washington, DC 20415 Action Date FR Cite Action Date FR Cite Phone: 202 606-0830 TDD: 202 606-0023 NPRM 04/00/98 NPRM 04/00/98 Fax: 202 606-2329 Small Entities Affected: None Small Entities Affected: None RIN: 3206–AI20 Government Levels Affected: None Government Levels Affected: None Agency Contact: Diane Tyrrell, 3774. CLARIFICATION OF VARIOUS Employment Service, Staffing Agency Contact: Mike Mahoney, STAFFING PROVISIONS Reinvention Office, Office of Personnel Employment Service, Staffing Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Management, 1900 E St. NW., Reinvention Office, Office of Personnel Washington, DC 20415 Management, 1900 E St. NW., Reinventing Government: This Phone: 202 606-0830 Washington, DC 20415 rulemaking is part of the Reinventing TDD: 202 606-0023 Phone: 202 606-0830 Government effort. It will revise text in Fax: 202 606-2329 Fax: 202 606-2329 the CFR to reduce burden or duplication, or streamline RIN: 3206–AI22 RIN: 3206–AI19 requirements. Legal Authority: 5 USC 1202; 5 USC 3776. ∑ REDUCTION IN FORCE 3778. PERFORMANCE RATINGS 3301; 5 USC 3302 SERVICE CREDIT; RETENTION Priority: CFR Citation: 5 CFR 330.403; 5 CFR RECORDS Info./Admin./Other 213.103(a); 5 CFR 300.501; 5 CFR Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Legal Authority: 5 USC 4305 315.603(a); 5 CFR 315.608; 5 CFR 332.301; 5 CFR 338.202(3) Legal Authority: 5 USC 3502a CFR Citation: 5 CFR 430 CFR Citation: 5 CFR 351 Legal Deadline: None Legal Deadline: None Abstract: Revises several appointing Legal Deadline: None Abstract: To avoid confusion regarding authorities to make them clearer and Abstract: Covers service credit for to delete references to the former OPM’s longstanding policy regarding retention purposes, and access to retroactive, assumed, and carryover Federal Personnel Manual and other retention records by employees and obsolete provisions. ratings of record, we propose to amend their representatives. the current performance management Timetable: Timetable: regulations to explicitly specify that Action Date FR Cite Action Date FR Cite ratings of record are final upon issuance unless challenged by the NPRM 06/00/98 NPRM 04/00/98 employee, pertain only to the appraisal Small Entities Affected: None Small Entities Affected: None period for which originally issued, and Government Levels Affected: None that assumed ratings of records are Government Levels Affected: None prohibited. The prohibition of assumed Agency Contact: Karen Jacobs, Agency Contact: ratings of record does not alter the Employment Service, Staffing Thomas A. Glennon, Employment Service, Workforce specific provision contained in 5 CFR Reinvention Office, Office of Personnel 351 for assigning additional service Management, 1900 E St. NW., Restructuring Office, Office of Personnel Management, 1900 E St. credit in a reduction in force when an Washington, DC 20415 employee has no rating of record. Phone: 202 606-0830 NW., Washington, DC 20415 Phone: 202 606-0960 TDD: 202 606-0023 Timetable: Fax: 202 606-2329 Fax: 202 606-2329 Action Date FR Cite RIN: 3206–AH49 RIN: 3206–AI09 NPRM 06/00/98
3775. ∑ OTHER THAN FULL-TIME 3777. ∑ RE-EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS Small Entities Affected: None EMPLOYMENT (PART-TIME, Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Government Levels Affected: None SEASONAL, INTERMITTENT) Legal Authority: 5 USC 3582; 5 USC Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant 3301; PL 103-296 Agency Contact: Barbara Colchao, Workforce Compensation and Legal Authority: 5 USC 3301 CFR Citation: 5 CFR 352 Performance Service, Office of CFR Citation: 5 CFR 340; 5 CFR 110 Legal Deadline: None Personnel Management, Office of Legal Deadline: None Performance and Compensation and Abstract: Updates provisions to Systems Design, 1900 E St. NW., Abstract: Grants agencies and conform to law allowing employees Washington, DC l20415 employees more flexibility by clarifying assigned to international organizations Phone: 202 606-2720 agency authority to schedule part-time under certain conditions to maintain Fax: 202 606-2395 employees on a pay period, rather than FERS and FICA retirement coverage; Email: [email protected] weekly, basis; define job sharing; current regulations only mention CSRS modify seasonal employment. retirement. RIN: 3206–AH77
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3779. SUPERIOR QUALIFICATIONS Performance Service, Office of Timetable: APPOINTMENTS Personnel Management, Office of Action Date FR Cite Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Compensation Administration, 1900 E St. NW., Washington, DC 20415 NPRM 10/00/98 Legal Authority: 5 USC 5333 Phone: 202 606-2858 NPRM Comment 12/00/98 CFR Citation: 5 CFR 531 Fax: 202 606-0824 Period End Final Action 06/00/99 Legal Deadline: None Email: [email protected] Small Entities Affected: None Abstract: Revises regulations RIN: 3206–AH11 concerning the appointment of superior Government Levels Affected: None candidates above the minimum rate of 3781. PREVAILING RATE SYSTEMS; Agency Contact: D. Bryce Baker, pay for General Schedule positions. CHANGING THE HELPER (TRADES) Workforce Compensation and Clarifies and modifies what agencies WG-5 SURVEY JOB FROM REQUIRED Performance Service, Office of should consider when making these TO OPTIONAL Personnel Management, Office of superior qualifications appointments. Compensation Administration, 1900 E Timetable: Priority: Info./Admin./Other St. NW., Washington, DC 20415 Phone: 202 606-2858 Action Date FR Cite Legal Authority: 5 USC 5343 Fax: 202 606-0824 NPRM 06/00/98 CFR Citation: 5 CFR 532 Email: [email protected] Small Entities Affected: None Legal Deadline: None RIN: 3206–AH12 Government Levels Affected: None Abstract: OPM plans regulatory actions Agency Contact: Tina Vay, to remove the Helper (Trades) WG-5 3783. PAY ADMINISTRATION Employment Service, Staffing Federal Wage System (FWS) (GENERAL); COLLECTION BY Reinvention Office, Office of Personnel appropriated fund survey job from the OFFSET FROM INDEBTED Management, 1900 E St. NW., list of required FWS survey jobs and GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES Washington, DC 20415 add it to the list of optional FWS Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Phone: 202 606-0830 survey jobs. This change was TDD: 202 606-0023 recommended by the Federal Prevailing Legal Authority: 5 USC 5514 Fax: 202 606-0390 Rate Advisory Committee. CFR Citation: 5 CFR 550, subpart K RIN: 3206–AI00 Timetable: Legal Deadline: None Action Date FR Cite Abstract: OPM plans regulatory 3780. MISCELLANEOUS CHANGES IN changes to salary offset regulations NPRM 04/00/98 COMPENSATION REGULATIONS which are needed to comply with Final Action 06/00/98 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant changes required by or resulting from Small Entities Affected: None Public Law 103-134 Legal Authority: 5 USC 5304; 5 USC Timetable: 5365; 5 USC 5753; 5 USC 5527; 5 USC Government Levels Affected: None 5596; 5 USC 5941; 5 USC 5754; 5 USC Agency Contact: Mark Allen, Action Date FR Cite 5307; 5 USC 5338; 5 USC 5548; 5 USC Workforce Compensation and NPRM 04/00/98 5595; 5 USC 6101; Fair Labor Standards Performance Service, Office of NPRM Comment 06/00/98 Act of 1938 (as amended), section 4(f); Personnel Management, Office of Period End 5 USC 5941 Compensation Administration, 1900 E Final Action 08/00/98 CFR Citation: 5 CFR 530; 5 CFR 531; St. NW., Washington, DC 20415 Small Entities Affected: None 5 CFR 536; 5 CFR 550; 5 CFR 551; 5 Phone: 202 606-2848 CFR 575; 5 CFR 610; 5 CFR 591 Fax: 202 606-4264 Government Levels Affected: None Legal Deadline: None Email: [email protected] Agency Contact: Paul Shields, Workforce Compensation and RIN: 3206–AH81 Abstract: This proposed regulation Performance Service, Office of would correct or clarify various Personnel Management, Office of regulatory provisions dealing with the 3782. SEVERANCE PAY: Compensation Administration, 1900 E compensation of Federal employees. MISCELLANEOUS St. NW., Washington, DC 20415 Timetable: Phone: 202 606-2858 Priority: Other Significant Action Date FR Cite Fax: 202 606-0824 Legal Authority: 5 USC 5595 Email: [email protected] NPRM 04/00/98 NPRM Comment 05/00/98 CFR Citation: 5 CFR 550, subpart G RIN: 3206–AH63 Period End Legal Deadline: None Final Action 10/00/98 3784. ∑ PAY ADMINISTRATION UNDER Small Entities Affected: None Abstract: The proposed regulation THE FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT would clarify or revise the severance (FLSA) Government Levels Affected: None pay rules relating to such issues as the Agency Contact: D. Bryce Baker, creditability of service and the Priority: Info./Admin./Other Workforce Compensation and definition of ‘‘involuntary separation.’’ Legal Authority: 5 USC 5112
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CFR Citation: 5 CFR 551, subparts A, 3786. FEDERAL EQUAL Legal Deadline: None B, C OPPORTUNITY RECRUITMENT Abstract: OPM is proposing to remove PROGRAM (FEORP) Legal Deadline: None the following sentence which appears Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant in this part, ‘‘If an employee fails to Abstract: The FLSA regulations require Legal Authority: 5 USC 4214 participate in any rehabilitative revision to correct minor program or, having participated, the inconsistencies in terminology and CFR Citation: 5 CFR 720 employee fails to bring conduct or phrasing, one incomplete citation, and Legal Deadline: None performance up to a satisfactory level, one incorrect reference. Abstract: Updates and simplifies the agency shall evaluate the employee Timetable: reporting requirements to conform to accordingly and initiate the appropriate performance-based or adverse action.’’ Action Date FR Cite court interpretations of law and to policy changes. Also takes advantage of This sentence confuses or misleads NPRM 07/00/98 improved technology. agency management in dealing with NPRM Comment 09/00/98 employees who have an alcohol or drug Period End Timetable: abuse problem and whose job Final Action 12/00/98 Action Date FR Cite performance or conduct is affected as a result of their problem. Some agency NPRM 06/00/98 Small Entities Affected: None officials believe that this sentence Government Levels Affected: None Small Entities Affected: None guarantees Federal employees, with Government Levels Affected: None these problems, two chances to avoid Agency Contact: Jeffrey D. Miller, disciplinary and/or corrective action. Agency Contact: Office of Merit Systems Oversight and Armando Rodriguez, We also propose to add a new section Effectiveness, Office of Personnel Employment Service, Diversity Office, to this part which provides for the Management, 1900 E St. NW., Office of Personnel Management, 1900 confidentiality of Employee Assistance Washington, DC 20415 E St. NW., Washington, DC 20415 Program (EAP) records and Phone: 202 606-2530 Phone: 202 606-0830 conversations between the counselor Fax: 202 606-2663 RIN: 3206–AH98 and the client. There are regulations RIN: 3206–AI15 which provide confidentiality of 3787. DISABLED VETERANS alcohol and drug abuse patient records; AFFIRMATIVE ACTION PROGRAM however, there is no such regulation for 3785. AGENCY DETERMINATIONS ON (DVAAP) other personal problems which affect PAYMENT OF RELOCATION COSTS Federal employees such as family, Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant financial, marital, etc. Without this Priority: Other Significant Legal Authority: 5 USC 4214 regulation, agency EAP administrators Legal Authority: and counselors are not protected when 5 USC 1103(9)(7) CFR Citation: 5 CFR 720 they refuse to disclose information CFR Citation: 5 CFR 572 Legal Deadline: None without the signed written consent of Legal Deadline: None Abstract: Adjusts regulations to the EAP client. conform to latest revision in law and Abstract: Timetable: Provides criteria under which clarifies technical issues. agencies may determine that relocation Action Date FR Cite Timetable: expenses will not be paid. Encourages NPRM 06/00/98 as broad a competition for hiring as Action Date FR Cite Final Action 11/00/98 possible and expands employment opportunities for displaced Federal NPRM 06/00/98 Small Entities Affected: None employees. Small Entities Affected: None Government Levels Affected: None Government Levels Affected: Timetable: None Agency Contact: Frank T. Cavanaugh, Action Date FR Cite Agency Contact: Armando Rodriguez, Office of Workforce Relations, Employment Service, Diversity Office, Employee Health Services Branch, NPRM 06/00/98 Office of Personnel Management, 1900 Office of Personnel Management, 1900 Small Entities Affected: None E St. NW., Washington, DC 20415 E St. NW., Washington, DC 20415 Phone: 202 606-0830 Phone: 202 606-1166 Government Levels Affected: None RIN: 3206–AH99 Fax: 202 606-0967 Agency Contact: Mike Carmichael, RIN: 3206–AI07 Employment Service, Staffing 3788. ∑ FEDERAL EMPLOYEES' Reinvention Office, Office of Personnel HEALTH AND COUNSELING 3789. RETIREMENT; CSRS AND FERS Management, 1900 E St. NW., PROGRAMS Washington, DC 20415 AMENDMENTS RELATING TO Phone: 202 606-0830 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS TDD: 202 606-0023 Legal Authority: 5 USC 7361; 5 USC Priority: Info./Admin./Other Fax: 202 606-2329 7362 Legal Authority: 5 USC 8347(a); 5 USC RIN: 3206–AH50 CFR Citation: 5 CFR 792 8461(g)
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CFR Citation: 5 CFR 831; 5 CFR 841; 3791. RETIREMENT; Fax: 202 606-1108 5 CFR 842 DETERMINATIONS OF MARITAL Email: [email protected] STATUS FOR SURVIVOR ANNUITIES Legal Deadline: None RIN: 3206–AH37 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Abstract: These regulations implement the special retirement provisions Legal Authority: 5 USC 8347; 5 USC 3793. RETIREMENT; WAIVER OF applicable to certain health care 8461 MILITARY RETIRED PAY TO professionals employed by the Veterans CFR Citation: 5 CFR 831; 5 CFR 842; ENHANCE CIVIL SERVICE Health Service and other designated 5 CFR 843 RETIREMENT ANNUITY agencies. Legal Deadline: None Priority: Info./Admin./Other Timetable: Abstract: These regulations would Legal Authority: 5 USC 8332(c)(4); 5 Action Date FR Cite establish the standards of evidence that USC 8347(a); 5 USC 8411(c)(5) NPRM 09/00/98 OPM will require to prove entitlement CFR Citation: 5 CFR 831, subpart C; Final Action 03/00/99 to a survivor annuity as the surviving 5 CFR 842, subpart C spouse of a deceased employee or Small Entities Affected: None retiree. Legal Deadline: None Government Levels Affected: None Timetable: Abstract: These regulations implement provisions of the National Defense Agency Contact: Cynthia Reinhold, Action Date FR Cite Retirement and Insurance Service, Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997. Office of Retirement Policy NPRM 06/00/98 The Act changed the statutory Development, Office of Personnel Final Action 12/00/99 requirements for allowing credit under Management, 1900 E St. NW., Small Entities Affected: None the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) and the Federal Employees Washington DC 20415 Government Levels Affected: None Phone: 202 606-0299 Retirement System (FERS) for military Fax: 202 606-1108 Agency Contact: Harold L. Siegelman, service in certain situations. CSRS or Email: [email protected] Retirement and Insurance Service, FERS credit based on a waiver of Retirement Policy Division, Office of military retired pay after January 1, RIN: 3206–AG57 Personnel Management, 1900 E St. 1997 is no longer permitted to NW., Washington, DC 20415 adversely affect a former spouse with 3790. RETIREMENT; CREDIT FOR Phone: 202 606-0299 a court order on file affecting the MILITARY SERVICE Fax: 202 606-1108 military retired pay. Email: [email protected] Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Timetable: RIN: 3206–AG60 Legal Authority: 5 USC 8347(a); 5 USC Action Date FR Cite 8461(g); 38 USC 4331 NPRM 05/00/98 3792. RETIREMENT; SERVICE CREDIT CFR Citation: 5 CFR 8347(a); 5 CFR Final Action 11/00/98 8461(g); 5 CFR 842.306; 5 CFR 842.307 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Small Entities Affected: None Legal Deadline: None Legal Authority: 5 USC 8347 Government Levels Affected: None CFR Citation: Abstract: These regulations implement 5 CFR 831, subpart C Agency Contact: Harold Siegelman, changes in the treatment of certain Legal Deadline: None Retirement and Insurance Service, military service under CSRS and FERS Abstract: These regulations would Retirement Policy Division, Office of required under the Uniformed Services provide that no retirement credit could Personnel Management, 1900 E St. Employment and Reemployment Rights be granted for periods of service for NW., Washington, DC 20415 Act of 1994 (USERRA). which retirement deductions were Phone: 202 606-0299 Timetable: refunded and not repaid even when the Fax: 202 606-1108 Email: [email protected] Action Date FR Cite refund was paid based on an erroneous separation. RIN: 3206–AH74 NPRM 09/00/98 Final Action 03/00/99 Timetable: 3794. RETIREMENT; ELIMINATION OF Small Entities Affected: None Action Date FR Cite THE HEARING REQUIREMENT Government Levels Affected: None NPRM 04/00/98 DURING ENFORCEMENT OF Final Action 09/00/98 Agency Contact: Christopher H. STATUTORY BAR TO ANNUITY Ziebarth, Retirement and Insurance Small Entities Affected: None AFTER CONVICTION OF CERTAIN Service, Retirement Policy Division, Government Levels Affected: None OFFENSES Office of Personnel Management, 1900 Agency Contact: Patricia A. Rochester, Priority: Info./Admin./Other E St. NW., Washington, DC 20415 Retirement and Insurance Service, Legal Authority: Phone: 202 606-0299 5 USC 8347; 5 USC Retirement Policy Division, Office of 8461 Fax: 202 606-1108 Personnel Management, 1900 E St. CFR Citation: Email: [email protected] NW., Washington, DC 20415 5 CFR 831, subpart K RIN: 3206–AG58 Phone: 202 606-0299 Legal Deadline: None
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Abstract: These regulations will CFR Citation: 5 CFR 835(e) Small Entities Affected: None eliminate the requirement that OPM Legal Deadline: None Government Levels Affected: None conduct a hearing before applying the statutory bar to annuity when an Abstract: These regulations will amend Agency Contact: Harold L. Siegelman, individual has been convicted of the Civil Service Retirement System Retirement and Insurance Group, certain offenses. (CSRS) and Federal Employees Retirement Policy Division, Office of Retirement System (FERS) regulations Personnel Management, 1900 E St. Timetable: by consolidating and updating existing NW., Washington, DC 20415 Action Date FR Cite regulations in three different subparts Phone: 202 606-0299 NPRM 04/00/98 of the CSRS regulations and 5 CFR 845 Fax: 202 606-1108 Final Action 09/00/98 in the FERS regulations to eliminate Email: [email protected] duplication of the provisions governing RIN: 3206–AG28 Small Entities Affected: None debt collection. This item is for subpart Government Levels Affected: None E of the new part 835, which will 3798. RETIREMENT; FERS Agency Contact: Patrick Jennings, address collections of Government ELECTIONS OF COVERAGE Retirement and Insurance Service, claims from payments made by OPM. Retirement Policy Division, Office of Timetable: Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Personnel Management, 1900 E St. Action Date FR Cite Legal Authority: 5 USC 8347(a); 5 USC NW., Washington, DC20415 8461(g); PL 99-335, sec 301(d)(3) Phone: 202 606-0299 NPRM 10/05/92 57 FR 45753 CFR Citation: Email: [email protected] NPRM 06/00/98 5 CFR 846 Final Action 12/00/98 Legal Deadline: RIN: 3206–AH76 None Small Entities Affected: None Abstract: These regulations implement Government Levels Affected: None title III of the Federal Employees 3795. RETIREMENT; STATE INCOME Retirement System (FERS) Act of 1986, TAX WITHHOLDING Agency Contact: Patricia A. Rochester, as amended, dealing with the election INSTRUMENTALITIES Retirement and Insurance Service, of FERS coverage by employees under Priority: Info./Admin./Other Retirement Policy Division, Office of the Civil Service Retirement System Personnel Management, 1900 E St. Legal Authority: 5 USC 8345; 5 USC and certain other employees. The NW., Washington, DC 20415 8347; 5 USC 8461; 5 USC 8469 regulations contain regulatory and Phone: 202 606-0299 interpretative rules concerning CFR Citation: 5 CFR 831, subpart S; Fax: 202 606-1108 employees’ eligibility to elect FERS 5 CFR 841, subpart J Email: [email protected] coverage, procedures for electing FERS Legal Deadline: None RIN: 3206–AE72 coverage, and basic benefits based on Abstract: These regulations modify the service for employees who elect existing regulations to reflect changes FERS coverage. 3797. RETIREMENT; COURT ORDERS designed to expand and streamline the AWARDING SURVIVOR ANNUITIES; Timetable: process of withholding state income tax CORRECTING OR SUPPLEMENTING Action Date FR Cite from CSRS and FERS annuities. THE FIRST ORDER DIVIDING Interim Final Rule 05/21/87 52 FR 19235 Timetable: MARITAL PROPERTY Interim Final Rule 09/13/93 58 FR 47821 Action Date FR Cite Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant NPRM 04/00/98 NPRM 04/00/98 Legal Authority: 5 USC 8347; 5 USC Final Action 06/00/98 Final Action 10/00/98 8461 Small Entities Affected: None Small Entities Affected: None CFR Citation: 5 CFR 838 Government Levels Affected: None Government Levels Affected: None Legal Deadline: None Agency Contact: Harold L. Siegelman, Agency Contact: Harold Siegelman, Abstract: These regulations would Retirement and Insurance Service, Retirement and Insurance Service, establish standards for determining Retirement Policy Division, Office of Retirement Policy Division, Office of which supplemental or correcting court Personnel Management, 1900 E St. Personnel Management, 1900 E St. orders are not ‘‘modifications’’ and the NW., Washington, DC 20415-0001 NW., Washington, DC 20415 procedures applicable to such orders. Phone: 202 606-0299 Phone: 202 606-0299 They also provide for the continuation Fax: 202 606-1108 Fax: 202 606-1108 of the former spouse’s survivor Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] coverage and the reduction in the RIN: 3206–AG96 RIN: 3206–AH62 retiree’s annuity until the State court decides the extent of the former 3799. FEDERAL EMPLOYEE'S GROUP spouse’s rights to retirement benefits. 3796. RETIREMENT; DEBT LIFE INSURANCE PROGRAM: COLLECTION Timetable: MISCELLANEOUS CHANGES AND Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Action Date FR Cite CLARIFICATIONS Legal Authority: 5 USC 8347; 5 USC NPRM 07/00/98 Priority: Info./Admin./Other 8461 Final Action 12/00/98 Legal Authority: 5 USC 8716
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CFR Citation: 5 CFR 870 Fax: 202 606-0633 more efficient service to FEHB program enrollees. Legal Deadline: None RIN: 3206–AG63 Timetable: Abstract: These regulations include a group of changes to FEGLI regulations 3800. ∑ FEDERAL EMPLOYEES Action Date FR Cite that will clarify procedures for signing HEALTH BENEFITS PROGRAM; NPRM 04/00/98 and witnessing designations of IMPROVING CONTRACT Final Action 09/00/98 beneficiary, accepting designations of PERFORMANCE Small Entities Affected: None beneficiary by facsimile, accepting DNA Priority: Info./Admin./Other evidence to establish paternity, etc. Government Levels Affected: None Legal Authority: 5 USC 8913 Timetable: Procurement: This is a procurement- CFR Citation: 48 CFR 1609 related action for which there is no Action Date FR Cite Legal Deadline: None statutory requirement. There is no NPRM 05/00/98 paperwork burden associated with this Final Action 11/00/98 Abstract: The proposed regulation action. would enable OPM to obtain more Small Entities Affected: None responsive contract performance from Agency Contact: Mary Ann Mercer, Retirement and Insurance Service, Government Levels Affected: None Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) program community rated Insurance Policy and Information Agency Contact: Karen Leibach, carriers. OPM would, through the Division, Office of Personnel Retirement and Insurance Service, annual premium reconciliation process, Management, Office of Insurance Insurance Policy and Information prompt community rated carriers to Programs, 1900 E St. NW., Washington, Division, Office of Personnel timely deliver FEHB program DC 20415 Management, 1900 E St. NW., brochures, provide requested reports, Phone: 202 606-0004 Washington, DC 20415 and meet other performance Fax: 202 606-0633 Phone: 202 606-0004 requirements so that OPM can provide RIN: 3206–AI16
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3801. STUDENT EDUCATIONAL Reinvention Office, Office of Personnel Small Entities Affected: None EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM Management, 1900 E St. NW., Government Levels Affected: None Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Washington, DC 20415 Phone: 202 606-0830 Agency Contact: Raleigh Neville, Legal Authority: EO 13024; 5 USC TDD: 202 606-0023 Employment Service, Staffing 3301; 5 USC 3302 Fax: 202 606-2329 Reinvention Office, Office of Personnel Management, 1900 E St. NW., CFR Citation: 5 CFR 213; 5 CFR 315; RIN: 3206–AH82 Washington, DC 20415 5 CFR 316 Phone: 202 606-0830 Legal Deadline: None 3802. ∑ APPOINTMENT OF NON- TDD: 202 606-0023 Abstract: OPM is issuing interim STATUS EMPLOYEES (USERRA) Fax: 202 606-2329 regulations permitting students RIN: 3206–AI23 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant participating in the Student Career Legal Authority: 5 USC 3301; 5 USC Experience Program to be 3803. TIME-IN-GRADE RESTRICTIONS noncompetitively converted to term 3302 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant appointments and subsequent CFR Citation: 5 CFR 213 career/career-conditional appointments Reinventing Government: This to implement E.O. 13024. These Legal Deadline: None rulemaking is part of the Reinventing regulations will also reorganize the Abstract: To permit Schedule A Government effort. It will eliminate current information on the student appointments of excepted service existing text in the CFR. programs and clarify a few related employees who are entitled to Legal Authority: 5 USC 3301; 5 USC issues. placement in a different agency if their 3302; EO 10577 original employing agency cannot Timetable: CFR Citation: reemploy them following uniformed 5 CFR 300 Action Date FR Cite service. Implements Pub. L. 103-353 Legal Deadline: None Interim Final Rule 12/02/97 62 FR 63627 (Uniformed Services Employment and Abstract: Eliminates requirement that Final Action 04/00/98 Reemployment Rights Act of 1994). employees serve 1 year in grade to be Small Entities Affected: None Timetable: eligible for promotion above the GS-5 level. This is separate from the Government Levels Affected: None Action Date FR Cite qualifications requirement for 1 year Agency Contact: Mike Mahoney, Interim Final Rule 10/30/95 60 FR 55173 experience at the next lowest grade or Employment Service, Staffing Final Action 06/00/98 equivalent for promotion.
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Timetable: Legal Deadline: None Agency Contact: Bede Bender, Office Action Date FR Cite Abstract: OPM will issue final of Executive Resources, Office of Personnel Management, 1900 E St. NPRM 06/15/94 59 FR 30717 regulations on Accelerated Qualifications only to authorize NW., Room 6484, Washington, DC NPRM Comment 01/10/95 60 FR 2546 20415 Period End agencies to establish intensive training programs for acquiring qualifications at Phone: 202 606-1784 Final Action 06/00/98 Fax: 202 606-2126 an accelerated rate. A new regulatory Small Entities Affected: None proposal on Merit Promotion will be RIN: 3206–AH92 Government Levels Affected: None developed. Agency Contact: Tina Vay, Timetable: 3807. JOB LISTINGS; FULL Employment Service, Staffing CONSIDERATION OF DISPLACED Action Date FR Cite Reinvention Office, Office of Personnel DEFENSE EMPLOYEES Management, 1900 E St. NW., NPRM 02/20/96 61 FR 6324 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Washington, DC 20415 Final Action 04/00/98 Legal Authority: 5 USC 3329; PL 102- Phone: 202 606-0830 Small Entities Affected: None TDD: 202 606-0023 484, sec 4432 Fax: 292 606-0390 Government Levels Affected: None CFR Citation: 5 CFR 330; 5 CFR 335 RIN: 3206–AG06 Agency Contact: Karen Jacobs, Legal Deadline: None Employment Service, Staffing Abstract: Requires agencies to report to Reinvention Office, Office of Personnel OPM announcements of vacancies for 3804. TEMPORARY AND TERM Management, 1900 E St. NW., which they will accept applications EMPLOYMENT Washington, DC 20415 from outside their own work forces. Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Phone: 202 606-0830 Requires agencies to give full TDD: 202 606-0023 Legal Authority: 5 USC 3301; 5 USC consideration to displaced DOD Fax: 202 606-2329 3302; EO 10577 employees, Pub. L. 102-484, 5 U.S.C. CFR Citation: 5 CFR 316 RIN: 3206–AG19 3329. Legal Deadline: None Timetable: Abstract: Changes non-permanent 3806. MORATORIUM ON Action Date FR Cite INVOLUNTARY SES REASSIGNMENTS appointment types and procedures to Interim Final Rule 04/08/93 58 FR 18139 be consistent with newly expanded Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Final Action 04/00/98 delegation of examining authority to Legal Authority: agencies. 5 USC 3395 Small Entities Affected: None Timetable: CFR Citation: 5 CFR 317 Government Levels Affected: None Agency Contact: Action Date FR Cite Legal Deadline: None Ed McHugh, Employment Service, Office of Abstract: The interim regulations will NPRM 09/09/96 61 FR 47450 Personnel Management, 1900 E St. clarify the existing regulatory provision NPRM Comment 12/31/96 NW., Washington, DC 20415 at 5 CFR 317.901 covering the statutory Period End Phone: 202 606-0830 120-day moratorium on involuntary Final Action 04/00/98 TDD: 202 606-0023 reassignments of SES career appointees Small Entities Affected: None Fax: 202 606-2329 following the appointment of a new Government Levels Affected: None agency head or noncareer supervisor. RIN: 3206–AF36 Agency Contact: Diane Tyrrell, As agency transitions began to get Employment Service, Staffing underway after January 20, 1997, 3808. ∑ MERIT PROMOTION Reinvention Office, Office of Personnel agency questions revealed that the PLACEMENT Management, 1900 E St. NW., moratorium regulations could be Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Washington, DC 20415 subject to an interpretation not Phone: 202 606-0830 intended by the statute. The interim Legal Authority: 5 USC 3301 TDD: 202 606-0023 regulations will make it clear that an CFR Citation: 5 CFR 335 Fax: 202 606-2329 agency may effect an involuntary reassignment, based on an Legal Deadline: None RIN: 3206–AH47 unsatisfactory rating issued before the Abstract: Continued existing appointment that initiates the requirements, previously in the Federal 3805. PROMOTION AND INTERNAL moratorium, as an exception to the Personnel Manual, under which PLACEMENT; ACCELERATED moratorium. agencies conduct merit promotion and QUALIFICATIONS Timetable: internal placement programs in the competitive service. Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Action Date FR Cite Timetable: Legal Authority: 5 USC 3301; 5 USC Interim Final Rule 04/00/98 3302; 5 USC 3329 Action Date FR Cite Small Entities Affected: CFR Citation: 5 CFR 316; 5 CFR 335; None Interim Final Rule 03/30/94 59 FR 67121 5 CFR 338 Government Levels Affected: None Final Action 04/00/98
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Small Entities Affected: None Timetable: Timetable: Government Levels Affected: None Action Date FR Cite Action Date FR Cite Agency Contact: Karen Jacobs, Interim Final Rule 03/10/97 62 FR 10681 Interim Final Rule 09/01/95 60 FR 45650 Employment Service, Staffing Final Action 04/00/98 Final Action 06/00/98 Reinvention Office, Office of Personnel Small Entities Affected: None Small Entities Affected: None Management, 1900 E St. NW., Government Levels Affected: None Washington, DC 20415 Government Levels Affected: None Phone: 202 606-0830 Agency Contact: Thomas Glennon, Agency Contact: Raleigh Neville, TDD: 202 606-0023 Employment Service, Workforce Employment Service, Staffing Fax: 202 606-2329 Restructuring Office, Office of Reinvention Office, Office of Personnel Personnel Management, 1900 E St. RIN: 3206–AI21 Management, 1900 E St. NW., NW., Washington, DC 20415 Washington, DC 20415 Phone: 202 606-0960 Phone: 202 606-0830 3809. REDUCTION IN FORCE; TDD: 202 606-2329 Fax: 202 606-2329 RETREAT RIGHTS Fax: 202 606-0023 RIN: 3206–AG02 Priority: Info./Admin./Other RIN: 3206–AH64 Legal Authority: 5 USC 3502(a) 3813. TRAINING 3811. REDUCTION IN FORCE AND CFR Citation: 5 CFR 351 VACANT POSITIONS Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Legal Deadline: None Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Legal Authority: 5 USC 4118 Abstract: The Office of Personnel Legal Authority: 5 USC 1302 CFR Citation: 5 CFR 410 Management is issuing interim CFR Citation: 5 CFR 351 Legal Deadline: None retention regulations that clarify existing policy on employees’ ‘‘Retreat’’ Legal Deadline: None Abstract: The changes will amend a rights. These interim regulations also Abstract: Clarifies agency policy on statement about maintaining individual clarify existing policy concerning the reduction in force offers of assignment employee training records, clarify content of specific written reduction in to vacant positions to satisfy an agency authority for training employees force notices, and issuance of a employee’s assignment right under outside the United States, and add Certification of Expected Separation. section 5 CFR 351.701 or in lieu of language about using appropriated separation by reduction in force. funds for appropriate and inoffensive Timetable: training. Timetable: Action Date FR Cite Timetable: Action Date FR Cite Interim Final Rule 08/25/95 60 FR 44253 Action Date FR Cite Final Action 04/00/98 Interim Final Rule 04/00/98 NPRM 04/01/98 63 FR 15787 Small Entities Affected: Small Entities Affected: Undetermined None Final Action 09/00/98 Government Levels Affected: None Government Levels Affected: Federal Small Entities Affected: None Agency Contact: Thomas A. Glennon, Agency Contact: Thomas A. Glennon, Government Levels Affected: None Employment Service, Workforce Employment Service, Workforce Restructuring Office, Office of Restructuring Office, Office of Agency Contact: Judith Lombard, Personnel Management, 1900 E St. Personnel Management, 1900 E St. Office of Workforce Relations, Office of NW., Washington, DC 20415-0001 NW., Washington, DC 20415 Human Resource Development, Office Phone: 202 606-0960 Phone: 202 606-0960 of Personnel Management, 1900 E St. Fax: 202 606-2329 Fax: 202 606-2329 NW., Washington, DC 20415 RIN: 3206–AH95 Phone: 202 606-2431 RIN: 3206–AG77 Fax: 202 606-2394 Email: [email protected] 3812. RESTORATION TO DUTY FROM 3810. REDUCTION IN FORCE AND RIN: 3206–AH94 MANDATORY TEMPORARY MILITARY SERVICE OR EXCEPTIONS COMPENSABLE INJURY Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant 3814. OFFICIAL DUTY STATION Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant DETERMINATIONS FOR PAY Legal Authority: 5 USC 8151; 38 USC PURPOSES Legal Authority: PL 104-208, sec 624 4301 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant CFR Citation: 5 CFR 351 CFR Citation: 5 CFR 353 Legal Authority: 5 USC 5305; 5 USC Legal Deadline: None Legal Deadline: None 5304; 5 USC 5941; EO 10000; PL 101- Abstract: Implements sec. 624 of Pub. Abstract: Restoration rights of Federal 509, sec 404 L. 104-208. Gives employees the right employees who leave employment to CFR Citation: to use annual leave to establish perform duty with the uniformed 5 CFR 530; 5 CFR 531; eligibility for retirement and continue services, implementing the USERRA of 5 CFR 591 health insurance in reductions in force. 1994, 48 USC chapter 43. Legal Deadline: None
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Abstract: These regulations clarify the Performance Service, Office of Abstract: The regulations implement location-based pay entitlements of Personnel Management, Office of recent changes in law which provide Federal employees who are detailed or Compensation Administration, 1900 E authority for compensatory time off for temporarily assigned to work at a new St. NW., Washington, DC 20415 prevailing rate (wage) employees in lieu location. In particular, the regulations Phone: 202 606-2848 of overtime pay and agency flexibility provide that, for employees receiving Fax: 202 606-4264 in determining the ‘‘in lieu of’’ holiday limited relocation allowances under 5 Email: [email protected] for employees on compressed work schedules when the actual holiday for U.S.C. 5737 during temporary RIN: 3206–AH58 assignments, the new location is the the employee is on a nonworkday. A official duty station for pay purposes. current regulation is also corrected to Timetable: 3816. PREVAILING RATE SYSTEMS; comply with a provision of law REDEFINITION OF THE MARION, IN, authorizing use of alternative work Action Date FR Cite NONAPPROPRIATED FUND WAGE schedules for civilian nonappropriated Interim Final Rule 05/09/97 62 FR 25423 AREA fund employees of the Armed Services. Final Action 06/00/98 Priority: Info./Admin./Other Timetable: Small Entities Affected: None Legal Authority: 5 USC 5343 Action Date FR Cite Government Levels Affected: None CFR Citation: 5 CFR 532 Interim Final Rule 05/23/97 62 FR 2835 Agency Contact: Jean Jacobson, Final Action 07/00/98 Legal Deadline: None Workforce Compensation and Small Entities Affected: None Abstract: OPM plan regulatory actions Performance Service, Office of Government Levels Affected: None Personnel Management, Office of to abolish the Marion, IN, Compensation Administration, 1900 E nonappropriated fund (NAF) wage area Agency Contact: James R. Weddel, St. NW., Washington, DC 20415 and to redefine (1) Grant, Miami, Allen Workforce Compensation and Phone: 202 606-2858 and Marion Counties, IN, to the Performance Service, Office of Fax: 202 606-0824 Greenville-Montgomery, OH, NAF wage Personnel Management, Office of Email: [email protected] area (2) Martin County, IL, to the Compensation Administration, 1900 E Hardin-Jefferson, KY, NAF wage area St. NW., Washington, DC 20415 RIN: 3206–AH84 and (3) Vermilion County, IL, to the Phone: 202 606-2858 Lake County, IL, NAF wage area. This Fax: 202 606-0824 3815. PREVAILING RATE SYSTEMS; change is necessary because the closing Email: [email protected] REDEFINITION OF THE NORFOLK, of the wage area host activity, Ft. RIN: 3206–AH86 MA, NONAPPROPRIATED FUND Benjamin Harrison, left Marion County WAGE AREA without an activity having the 3818. PREVAILING RATE SYSTEMS; capability to conduct a wage survey. Priority: Info./Admin./Other ABOLISHMENT OF LUBBOCK Legal Authority: 5 USC 5343 Timetable: NONAPPROPRIATED FUND WAGE AREA CFR Citation: 5 CFR 532 Action Date FR Cite Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Legal Deadline: None Interim Final Rule 09/10/96 61 FR 47661 Final Action 04/00/98 Legal Authority: 5 USC 5343 Abstract: OPM plans regulatory actions to abolish the Norfolk, MA, Small Entities Affected: None CFR Citation: 5 CFR 532 nonappropriated fund (NAF) wage area Government Levels Affected: None Legal Deadline: None and to redefine (1) Norfolk, Plymouth, Abstract: The Office of Personnel and Suffolk Counties in MA to the Agency Contact: Mark Allen, Workforce Compensation and Management is issuing an interim rule Middlesex, MA, NAF wage area and (2) to abolish the Lubbock, Texas, Barnstable and Nantucket Counties in Performance Service, Office of Personnel Management, Office of nonappropriated Fund (NAF) Federal MA to the Newport, RI, wage area. This Wage System (FWS) wage area and to change is necessary because the closing Compensation Administration, 1900 E St. NW., Washington, DC 20415 establish a new Curry, New Mexico, of the wage area host activity, Naval NAF wage area. Air Station, South Weymouth, MA, left Phone: 202 606-2848 Timetable: Norfolk County without an activity Fax: 202 606-4264 having the capability to conduct a wage Email: [email protected] Action Date FR Cite survey. RIN: 3206–AH60 Interim Final Rule 05/27/97 62 FR 28978 Timetable: Final Action 04/00/98 Action Date FR Cite 3817. HOLIDAY AND PREMIUM PAY Small Entities Affected: None Interim Final Rule 09/23/96 61 FR 49649 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Government Levels Affected: None Final Action 04/00/98 Legal Authority: 5 USC 5548; 5 USC Agency Contact: Mark Allen, Small Entities Affected: None 6133; 29 USC 204(f) Workforce Compensation and Performance Service, Office of CFR Citation: Government Levels Affected: None 5 CFR 523; 5 CFR 550; Personnel Management, Office of Agency Contact: Mark Allen, 5 CFR 551; 5 CFR 610 Compensation Administration, 1900 E Workforce Compensation and Legal Deadline: None St. NW., Washington, DC 20415
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Phone: 202 606-2848 Government Levels Affected: None Osceola, Seminole, and Volusia Fax: 202 606-4264 Agency Contact: Mark Allen, Counties, FL, from the Orlando wage Email: [email protected] Workforce Compensation and area to the area of application of the RIN: 3206–AH88 Performance Service, Office of Jacksonville, FL, Federal Wage System Personnel Management, Office of (FWS) wage area. Compensation Administration, 1900 E Timetable: 3819. ∑ PREVAILING RATE SYSTEMS: St. NW., Washington, DC 20415 ABOLISHMENT OF THE ORLANDO, FL Action Date FR Cite Phone: 202 606-2848 APPROPRIATED FUND WAGE AREA Fax: 202 606-4264 Interim Final Rule 02/09/98 63 FR 6471 Priority: Info./Admin./Other Email: [email protected] Final Action 05/00/98 Legal Authority: 5 USC 5343 RIN: 3206–AI10 Small Entities Affected: None CFR Citation: 5 CFR 532 Government Levels Affected: None Legal Deadline: None 3821. ∑ PREVAILING RATE SYSTEMS; Agency Contact: Mark A. Allen, Abstract: The Office of Personnel ABOLISHMENT OF KANSAS CITY, Workforce Compensation and Management is issuing an interim rule MO, SPECIAL WAGE SCHEDULE FOR Performance Service, Office of to remove the requirement that a full- PRINTING POSITIONS Personnel Management, Office of scale wage survey be conducted in the Priority: Info./Admin./Other Compensation Administration, 1900 E St. NW., Washington, DC 20415 Orlando, Florida, Federal Wage System Legal Authority: 5 USC 5343 appropriated fund wage area in Phone: 202 606-2848 September 1997. CFR Citation: 5 CFR 532 Fax: 202 606-4264 Timetable: Legal Deadline: None RIN: 3206–AI13 Action Date FR Cite Abstract: The Office of Personnel Management is issuing an interim rule 3823. VOLUNTARY SEPARATION Interim Final Rule 10/03/97 62 FR 51759 to abolish the Federal Wage System INCENTIVE REPAYMENT WAIVERS Final Action 04/00/98 Special Wage schedule for printing Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Small Entities Affected: None positions in the Kansas City, Missouri, Legal Authority: PL 103-226 Government Levels Affected: None wage area. Printing and lithographic employees in Kansas City will now be CFR Citation: 5 CFR 550 Agency Contact: Mark Allen, paid rates from the regular Kansas City Workforce Compensation and wage schedule. Legal Deadline: None Performance Service, Office of Timetable: Abstract: Public Law 103-226 Personnel Management, Office of authorizes OPM to waive repayment of Compensation Administration, 1900 E Action Date FR Cite a voluntary separation incentive St. NW., Washington, DC 20415 Interim Final Rule 12/24/97 62 FR 67258 payment if a former employee who Phone: 202 606-2848 Final Action 04/00/98 accepted the incentive payment is Fax: 202 606-4264 reemployed by an executive agency of Small Entities Affected: None RIN: 3206–AI04 the U.S. within 5 years of separation. Government Levels Affected: None Timetable: Agency Contact: Mark Allen, 3820. ∑ PREVAILING RATE SYSTEMS; Action Date FR Cite REMOVAL OF UMATILLA COUNTY, Workforce Compensation and Interim Final Rule 11/09/94 59 FR 55807 OR, FROM SPOKANE, WA, Performance Service, Office of Final Action 06/00/98 NONAPPROPRIATED FUND WAGE Personnel Management, Office of AREA Compensation Administration, 1900 E Small Entities Affected: None St. NW., Washington, DC 20415 Priority: Info./Admin./Other Phone: 202 606-2848 Government Levels Affected: None Legal Authority: 5 USC 5343 Fax: 202 606-4264 Agency Contact: Greg Keller, Email: [email protected] CFR Citation: 5 CFR 532 Employment Service, Federal RIN: 3206–AI11 Workforce Restructuring Office, Office Legal Deadline: None of Personnel Management, 1900 E St. Abstract: The Office of Personnel NW., Washington, DC 20415 Management is issuing an interim rule 3822. ∑ PREVAILING RATE SYSTEMS; Phone: 202 606-0960 to remove Umatilla County, Oregon, REDEFINITION OF THE ORLANDO, FL, Fax: 202 606-2329 APPROPRIATED FUND WAGE AREA from the area of application of the RIN: 3206–AG20 Spokane, Washington, nonappropriated Priority: Info./Admin./Other fund Federal Wage System wage area. Legal Authority: 5 USC 5343 3824. PAY ADMINISTRATION; Timetable: CFR Citation: 5 CFR 532 AVAILABILITY PAY FOR CRIMINAL Action Date FR Cite Legal Deadline: None INVESTIGATORS Interim Final Rule 12/23/97 62 FR 66973 Abstract: The Office of Personnel Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Final Action 04/00/98 Management (OPM) is issuing an Legal Authority: 5 USC 5545a(h); 5 Small Entities Affected: None interim rule to redefine Orange, USC 5548
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CFR Citation: 5 CFR 550 3826. COST-OF-LIVING ALLOWANCE adverse effects for a substantial number Legal Deadline: None IN NONFOREIGN AREAS: SURVEY of employees, the President may direct RESULTS the Office of Personnel Management Abstract: Regulations on Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant (OPM) to establish an emergency leave implementation of availability pay, a transfer program under which an new form of premium pay for criminal Legal Authority: 5 USC 5941 employee in any Executive agency may investigators who are required to work, CFR Citation: 5 CFR 591 donate annual leave for transfer to or be available to work substantial employees of his or her agency or to Legal Deadline: amounts of unscheduled overtime duty None employees in other agencies who are based on the needs of the employing Abstract: The Office of Personnel adversely affected by such disaster or agency. Management will issue regulations emergency. The Act also permits Timetable: implementing any increases in agency leave banks established under Action Date FR Cite nonforeign area cost-of-living allowance 5 U.S.C. 6362 to donate leave under (COLA) rates indicated by COLA survey an emergency leave transfer program Interim Final Rule 12/23/94 59 FR 66149 results. Section 5941 of title 5, United established by OPM. Final Action 09/00/98 States Code, provides for the payment Timetable: Small Entities Affected: None of nonforeign area cost-of-living Action Date FR Cite Government Levels Affected: None allowances (COLA’s) in Alaska, Hawaii, and other nonforeign overseas areas. Agency Contact: Kevin Kitchelt, NPRM 11/03/97 62 FR 59301 The Office of Personnel Management Final Action 05/00/98 Workforce Compensation and conducts living-cost surveys to set Small Entities Affected: Performance Service, Office of COLA rates. Reductions in nonforeign None Personnel Management, Office of area COLA rates are prohibited by the Government Levels Affected: None Compensation Administration, 1900 E Treasury, Postal Service, and General Agency Contact: Jo Ann Perrini, St. NW., Washington, DC 20415 Government Appropriations Act, 1992, Phone: 202 606-2858 Workforce Compensation and as amended, through December 31, Fax: 202 606-0824 Performance Service, Office of 1998, and will not be proposed during Email: [email protected] Personnel Management, Office of the restricted period. Commpensation Administration, 1900 E RIN: 3206–AG47 Timetable: St. NW., Washington, DC 20415 Phone: 202 606-2858 Action Date FR Cite 3825. LUMP-SUM PAYMENTS FOR Fax: 202 606-0824 ANNUAL LEAVE Notice Winter 1995 02/02/96 61 FR 4070 Email: [email protected] Report Priority: RIN: 3206–AI03 Substantive, Nonsignificant Interim Final Rule 03/25/97 62 FR 14188 Legal Authority: 5 USC 5553 Final Action 06/00/98 CFR Citation: 5 CFR 550, subpart L Small Entities Affected: None 3828. RETIREMENT; COVERAGE - NON-APPROPRIATED FUND Legal Deadline: None Government Levels Affected: None INSTRUMENTALITIES Abstract: The Technical and Agency Contact: Kurt M. Springmann, Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Miscellaneous Civil Service Workforce Compensation and Legal Authority: Amendments Act of 1992 (Pub. L. 102- Performance Service, Office of 5 USC 8347 378, October 2, 1992) created a new Personnel Management, Office of CFR Citation: 5 CFR 831; 5 CFR 837; provision, 5 U.S.C. 5553, to provide Compensation Administration, 1900 E 5 CFR 841; 5 CFR 842; 5 CFR 843; 5 OPM with regulatory authority for St. NW., Washington, DC 20415 CFR 844; 5 CFR 847 administering lump-sum payments for Phone: 202 606-2838 annual leave. Legal Deadline: Final, Statutory, Fax: 202 606-4264 August 9, 1996. Timetable: Email: [email protected] Abstract: These regulations implement Action Date FR Cite RIN: 3206–AH07 the provisions of Pub.L. 104-106 which NPRM 07/29/97 62 FR 40475 allow certain employees who have been Final Action 05/00/98 3827. ∑ EMERGENCY LEAVE employed by Non-appropriated Fund Small Entities Affected: None TRANSFER PROGRAM Instrumentalities under the jurisdiction of the armed forces to obtain retirement Government Levels Affected: None Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant credit under limited circumstances. Agency Contact: JoAnn Perrini, Legal Authority: 5 USC 6391 Timetable: Workforce Compensation and CFR Citation: 5 CFR 630, subpart K Performance Service, Office of Action Date FR Cite Personnel Management, Office of Legal Deadline: None Interim Final Rule 08/09/96 61 FR 41714 Compensation Administration, 1900 E Abstract: Section 9004 of Pub. L. 105- Final Action 06/00/98 St. NW., Washington, DC 20415 18, June 12, 1997, added section 6391 Small Entities Affected: None Phone: 202 606-2858 to title 5, United States Code, to Fax: 202 606-0824 provide that in the event of a major Government Levels Affected: None Email: [email protected] disaster or emergency, as declared by Agency Contact: Cynthia Reinhold, RIN: 3206–AF38 the President, that results in severe Retirement and Insurance Service,
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Retirement Policy Division, Office of Abstract: These regulations implement Fax: 202 606-1108 Personnel Management, 1900 E St. provisions of the National Capital Email: [email protected] NW., Washington, DC 204415 Revitalization and Self-Government RIN: 3206–AG78 Phone: 202 606-0299 Improvement Act of 1997 that require Fax: 202 606-1108 that nonjudicial employees of the Email: [email protected] District of Columbia Courts, and under 3832. RETIREMENT; FERS BASIC ANNUITY RIN: 3206–AH57 certain conditions, the District of Columbia Corrections Trustee and the Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant District of Columbia Pretrial Services, 3829. REVISED APPLICATION Defense Service, Parole, Adult Legal Authority: 5 USC 8461 PROCEDURES FOR DISABILITY Probation and Offender Supervision CFR Citation: 5 CFR 842, subparts B, RETIREMENT UNDER CSRS AND Trustee and their respective employees C, D, E, F, G FERS be considered Federal employees for Legal Deadline: None Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant purposes of Federal retirement, health, and life insurance coverage. Abstract: These final regulations will Legal Authority: 5 USC 8104; 5 USC amend FERS Basic Annuity regulations Timetable: 8347; 5 USC 8461 governing Eligibility (subpart B), Credit Action Date FR Cite CFR Citation: 5 CFR 831; 5 CFR 844 for Service (subpart C), Computations Interim Final Rule 09/30/97 62 FR 50995 (subpart F), and Alternative Forms of Legal Deadline: None Comment Period End 12/01/97 Annuity (subpart G). These regulations Abstract: These regulations will Final Action 06/00/98 have been published at various times in interim final form, and have been establish uniformity in application Small Entities Affected: None procedures for disability retirement affected by statutory changes. under the Civil Service Retirement Government Levels Affected: None Timetable: System and the Federal Employees Agency Contact: Patrick Jennings, Action Date FR Cite Retirement System. The regulation Retirement and Insurance Service, would allow employees to meet the Office of Personnel Management, 1900 Interim Final Rule 01/16/87 52 FR 2061 filing deadline for disability retirement E St. NW., Washington, DC 20415-0001 Interim Final Rule 01/16/87 52 FR 2067 by submitting applications directly to Phone: 202 606-0299 Interim Final Rule 02/11/87 52 FR 4473 their former employing agency or to Fax: 202 606-1108 Interim Final Rule 02/11/87 52 FR 4479 OPM within 1 year after separation. Interim Final Rule 05/14/87 52 FR 18193 RIN: 3206–AI02 Timetable: Interim Final Rule 04/08/88 53 FR 11635 Interim Final Rule 02/09/90 55 FR 4598 Action Date FR Cite 3831. RETIREMENT COVERAGE FOR Final Rule 12/27/90 55 FR 53136 NPRM 01/16/97 62 FR 2323 DC FINANCIAL CONTROL BOARD Interim Final Rule 02/19/91 56 FR 6549 NPRM Comment 03/17/97 EMPLOYEES Final Action 09/00/98 Period End Priority: Info./Admin./Other Small Entities Affected: None Final Action 04/00/98 Legal Authority: PL 104-8 Government Levels Affected: None Small Entities Affected: None CFR Citation: 5 CFR 831; 5 CFR 842 Agency Contact: Harold L. Siegelman, Government Levels Affected: None Legal Deadline: None Retirement and Insurance Service, Agency Contact: Robert Girouard, Retirement Policy Division, Office of Abstract: These regulations implement Personnel Management, 1900 E St. Retirement and Insurance Service, the District of Columbia Financial Retirement Policy Division, Office of NW., Washington, DC 20415 Responsibility and Management Phone: 202 606-0299 Personnel Management, 1900 E St. Assistance Act of 1995. They establish NW., Washington, DC 20415 Fax: 202 606-1108 standards by which some former Email: [email protected] Phone: 202 606-0299 Federal employees may carry civil Fax: 202 606-1108 service retirement coverage to RIN: 3206–AE73 Email: [email protected] employment with the DC Financial RIN: 3206–AH68 Control Board. 3833. FEDERAL EMPLOYEES HEALTH Timetable: BENEFITS PROGRAM: PAYMENT OF PREMIUMS FOR PERIODS OF LEAVE 3830. ∑ COVERAGE FOR CERTAIN Action Date FR Cite EMPLOYEES OF DC WITHOUT PAY OR INSUFFICIENT PAY Interim Final Rule 11/15/96 61 FR 58457 Priority: Info./Admin./Other Priority: Info./Admin./Other Final Action 04/00/98 Legal Authority: 5 USC 8913 Legal Authority: 5 USC 8347(a); 5 USC Small Entities Affected: None 8361(g); PL 105-33, sec 11202(f), CFR Citation: Government Levels Affected: None 5 CFR 890 11232(e), 11246(b) Agency Contact: Patrick Jennings, Legal Deadline: None CFR Citation: 5 CFR 831; 5 CFR 837; Retirement and Insurance Service, Abstract: Regulations that establish a 5 CFR 842; 5 CFR 846; 5 CFR 870; 5 Office of Personnel Management, 1900 requirement that Federal agencies CFR 890 E St. NW., Washington, DC 20415-0001 counsel employees entering nonpay Legal Deadline: None Phone: 202 606-0299 status, or whose pay is insufficient to
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cover their FEHB premium payments, circumstances. Enrollees would have Agency Contact: Kenneth A. Lease, of the options of continuing or the right to request reconsideration of Retirement and Insurance Service, terminating their FEHB coverage, and the carrier action from the employing Insurance Policy and Information if continuing, of paying premiums office. Division, Office of Personnel directly on a current basis or incurring Timetable: Management, Office of Insurance a debt to be withheld from future Programs, 1900 E St. NW., Washington, salary. These regulations are intended Action Date FR Cite DC 20415 to ensure employees are fully aware of NPRM 11/28/97 62 FR 63282 Phone: 202 606-0004 these alternatives. Final Action 06/00/98 Fax: 202 606-0633 Timetable: Small Entities Affected: None RIN: 3206–AI05 Action Date FR Cite Government Levels Affected: None Interim Final Rule 07/22/96 61 FR 37807 Agency Contact: Jay Fritz, Retirement 3836. ∑ APPOINTMENT, PAY, AND Interim Final Rule 06/00/98 and Insurance Service, Insurance Policy REMOVAL OF ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGES Small Entities Affected: None and Information Division, Office of Personnel Management, Office of Priority: Info./Admin./Other Government Levels Affected: None Insurance Programs, 1900 E St. NW., Legal Authority: 5 USC 1104(a)(2); 5 Agency Contact: Kenneth A. Lease, Washington, DC 20415 USC 1305; 5 USC 3105; 5 USC 3323(b); Retirement and Insurance Service, Phone: 202 606-0004 5 USC 3344; 5 USC 4301(2)(D); 5 USC Insurance Policy and Information Fax: 202 606-0633 5372; 5 USC 7521 Division, Office of Personnel RIN: 3206–AH61 Management, Office of Insurance CFR Citation: 5 CFR 930 Programs, 1900 E St. NW., Washington, Legal Deadline: None DC 20415 3835. ∑ FEHBP: REMOVAL OF Phone: 202 606-0004 MINIMUM SALARY REQUIREMENT Abstract: Revises several areas Fax: 202 606-0633 Priority: Info./Admin./Other pertaining to the appointment, pay, and removal of ALJ’s. RIN: 3206–AG66 Legal Authority: 5 USC 8913 Timetable: CFR Citation: 5 CFR 890 3834. FEDERAL EMPLOYEES HEALTH Action Date FR Cite Legal Deadline: None BENEFITS PROGRAM: NPRM 02/23/98 63 FR 8874 DISENROLLMENT Abstract: This proposed rule removes Final Action 04/00/98 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant an obsolete provision that prohibits an employee whose annual salary is $350 Small Entities Affected: None Legal Authority: 5 USC 8913 or less from enrolling in the Federal Government Levels Affected: None Employees Health Benefits Program. CFR Citation: 5 CFR 890 Agency Contact: Carol Bullock, Legal Deadline: None Timetable: Employment Service, Office of Abstract: Regulations authorizing Action Date FR Cite Personnel Management, 1900 E St. FEHB carriers to disenroll an enrollee NW., Washington, DC 20415 NPRM 01/06/98 63 FR 446 Phone: 202 606-0810 when the enrollment reconciliation Final Action 04/00/98 process results in an unresolved TDD: 202 606-0023 discrepancy between the carrier and the Small Entities Affected: None Fax: 202 606-0584 employing office records, and in other Government Levels Affected: None RIN: 3206–AI08
OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT (OPM) Long-Term Actions
Long-Term ActionsOPM
3837. CLAIMS COLLECTIONS owed to OPM by Federal employees. Phone: 202 606-5028 STANDARDS; DEBT COLLECTION These regulations implement the debt RIN: ACT OF 1982; SALARY OFFSET collection procedures provided under 3206–AG64 section 5 of the Debt Collection Act of Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant 1982. 3838. NONCOMPETITIVE Legal Authority: 31 USC 952; PL 95- Timetable: Next Action Undetermined APPOINTMENTS OF CORPORATION 454; 5 USC 5514 FOR NATIONAL SERVICE Small Entities Affected: None CFR Citation: 5 CFR 179 EMPLOYEES Government Levels Affected: None Legal Deadline: None Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Agency Contact: Bob Loring, Office of Abstract: The Office of Personnel the Chief Financial Officer, Office of Legal Authority: 42 USC 12651f Management (OPM) is revising the Financial Management, Office of CFR Citation: 5 CFR 315; 5 CFR 316 regulations it issued on July 11, 1994, Personnel Management, 1900 E St. that govern the collection of debts NW., Washington, DC Legal Deadline: None
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Abstract: Permits permanent and Legal Authority: 5 USC 43; 5 USC 45 3842. ∑ JOB GRADING REVIEWS AND indefinite employees of the Corporation APPEALS OF FEDERAL WAGE for National Service to receive CFR Citation: 5 CFR 430; 5 CFR 451 SYSTEM EMPLOYEES noncompetitive appointments in the Legal Deadline: None Priority: Info./Admin./Other competitive service. Implements National and Community Service Trust Abstract: Regulatory changes to comply Legal Authority: 5 USC 5112 Act of 1993. with legislative reforms in support of the National Performance Review (NPR) CFR Citation: 5 CFR 532, subpart G Timetable: Next Action Undetermined recommendations that decentralize Legal Deadline: None Small Entities Affected: None performance management and incentive Abstract: Government Levels Affected: None awards programs to the agencies. The job grading reviews and appeals regulations require updating to Agency Contact: Karen Jacobs, Timetable: Next Action Undetermined reflect current organization Employment Service, Staffing Small Entities Affected: None nomenclature following a Reinvention Office, Office of Personnel reorganization within OPM. Management, 1900 E St. NW., Government Levels Affected: None Washington, DC 20415 Timetable: Phone: 202 606-0830 Agency Contact: Barbara Colchao, Action Date FR Cite TDD: 202 606-0023 Workforce Compensation and NPRM 05/00/99 Fax: 202 606-2329 Performance Service, Office of Personnel Management, Performance NPRM Comment 07/00/99 RIN: 3206–AH48 Management and Incentive Awards Period End Division, OPCSD, 1900 E St. NW., Final Action 09/00/99 3839. ∑ INTERAGENCY PLACEMENT Washington, DC 20415 Small Entities Affected: Undetermined PROGRAM Phone: 202 606-2720 Fax: 202 606-2395 Government Levels Affected: None Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Email: [email protected] Agency Contact: Jeffrey D. Miller, Legal Authority: 5 USC 1302; 5 USC RIN: 3206–AF57 Office of Merit Systems Oversight and 3310; 5 USC 3315 Effectiveness, Office of Personnel CFR Citation: 5 CFR 330; 5 CFR 351; Management, 1900 E St. NW., 5 CFR 332 3841. CLASSIFICATION APPEALS OF Washington, DC 20415 Legal Deadline: None GENERAL SCHEDULE EMPLOYEES Phone: 202 606-2530 Fax: 202 606-2663 Abstract: Implemented Interagency Priority: Info./Admin./Other RIN: 3206–AI14 Placement Program, which superseded Legal Authority: 5 USC 5112 Displaced Employee Program and Interagency Placement Program. CFR Citation: 5 CFR 511, subparts F 3843. SUITABILITYÐSUITABILITY Timetable: and G DISQUALIFICATION/RATING ACTIONS Action Date FR Cite Legal Deadline: None Priority: Other Significant Interim Final Rule 06/27/94 59 FR 32871 Abstract: The position classification Legal Authority: 5 USC 3301; 5 USC Next Action Undetermined appeals regulations require updating to 3302; 5 USC 7301; EO 10577; EO 11222 Small Entities Affected: None reflect current organization nomenclature following a CFR Citation: 5 CFR 731(b) to 731(c) Government Levels Affected: None reorganization within OPM. Legal Deadline: None Agency Contact: Tim Firlie, Timetable: Employment Service, Workforce Abstract: With the abolishment in Restructuring Office, Office of Action Date FR Cite December 1993 of the Federal Personnel Manual (FPM), certain Personnel Management, 1900 E St. NPRM 05/00/99 NW., Washington, DC 20415 policies and procedures enunciated in NPRM Comment 07/00/99 the FPM must be considered for Phone: 202 606-0960 Period End Fax: 202 606-2329 publication in another format. Since all Final Action 09/00/99 of these policies and procedures are RIN: 3206–AI24 Small Entities Affected: None important to continued program operations, some of them will be Government Levels Affected: 3840. PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT None published in pamphlets for users and REFORM Agency Contact: Jeffrey D. Miller, other more significant items will be incorporated in the Code of Federal Priority: Other Significant Office of Merit Systems Oversight and Effectiveness, Office of Personnel Regulations. The Office of Management Reinventing Government: This Management, 1900 E St. NW., and Budget (OMB) has determined that rulemaking is part of the Reinventing Washington, DC 20415 these regulations are significant and Government effort. It will revise text in Phone: 202 606-2530 require OMB review prior to the CFR to reduce burden or Fax: 202 606-2663 publication. However, we foresee no duplication, or streamline significant issues arising from requirements. RIN: 3206–AH38 implementation of these changes.
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Timetable: Small Entities Affected: None Management, P.O. Box 886, Action Date FR Cite Government Levels Affected: None Washington, DC 20044-0886 Phone: 202 606-1042 Interim Final Rule 04/23/91 56 FR 18650 Agency Contact: Richard A. Ferris, Fax: 202 606-2390 Interim Final Rule 09/16/94 59 FR 47527 Associate Director, Investigations Next Action Undetermined Service, Office of Personnel RIN: 3206–AB92 Small Entities Affected: None Management, P.O. Box 886, Washington, DC 20415 3846. DEBARMENTS, CIVIL Government Levels Affected: None Phone: 202 606-1042 MONETARY PENALTIES, AND Agency Contact: Richard A. Ferris, Fax: 202 606-2390 ASSESSMENTS IMPOSED AGAINST Associate Director, Investigations RIN: 3206–AC21 PROVIDERS Service, Office of Personnel Management, P.O. Box 886, Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Washington, DC 20044-0886 3845. INVESTIGATIONS Legal Authority: 5 USC 8902a Phone: 202 606-1042 Priority: Other Significant CFR Citation: Fax: 202 606-2390 5 CFR 890, subpart J Legal Authority: RIN: 3206–AC19 PL 93-579; 5 USC Legal Deadline: None 552a Abstract: These regulations will CFR Citation: 5 CFR 736 3844. PERSONNEL SECURITY AND implement amendments to 5 U.S.C. RELATED PROGRAMS Legal Deadline: None section 8902a, which authorize OPM to debar health care providers who have Priority: Other Significant Abstract: With the abolishment in committed certain types of legal Legal Authority: 5 USC 3301; 5 USC December 1993 of the Federal offenses or program-related violations, 3302; 5 USC 7312; 50 USC 403; EO Personnel Manual (FPM), certain from participation in the Federal 10450; EO 10577 policies and procedures enunciated in Employees Health Benefits Program the FPM must be considered for CFR Citation: 5 CFR 732 (FEHBP) and to levy monetary penalties publication in another format. Since all and assessments against individuals Legal Deadline: None of these policies and procedures are who have improperly obtained Abstract: With the abolishment in important to continued program payments of FEHBP funds. Passage of December 1993 of the Federal operations, some of them will be the proposed legislation will remove Personnel Manual (FPM), certain published in pamphlets for users and unnecessary administrative constraints policies and procedures enunciated in other more significant items will be on the agency, provide more flexible the FPM must be considered for incorporated in the Code of Federal and less time consuming procedures, publication in another format. Since all Regulations. The Office of Management and improve OPM’s administration of of these policies and procedures are and Budget (OMB) has determined that sanctions against unfit health care important to continued program these regulations are significant and providers. require OMB review prior to operations, some of them will be Timetable: published in pamphlets for users and publication. However, we foresee no other more significant items will be significant issues arising from Action Date FR Cite implementation of these changes. incorporated in the Code of Federal Interim Final Rule 10/30/89 54 FR 43939 Regulations. The Office of Management Timetable: NPRM 02/04/93 58 FR 7052 and Budget (OMB) has determined that Action Date FR Cite Next Action Undetermined these regulations are significant and require OMB review prior to Interim Final Rule 04/23/91 56 FR 18650 Small Entities Affected: None publication. However, we see no Begin Review 10/01/93 Government Levels Affected: None significant issues arising from Interim Final Rule 09/16/94 59 FR 47527 Agency Contact: implementation of these changes. Interim Final Rule 10/17/94 J. David Cope, Chief, Effective Date Administrative Sanctions Branch, Timetable: Next Action Undetermined Office of the Inspector General, Office Action Date FR Cite of Personnel Management, 1900 E Small Entities Affected: None Street NW., Washington, DC 20415 Interim Final Rule 04/23/91 56 FR 18650 Government Levels Affected: None Phone: 202 606-2851 Interim Final Rule 09/16/94 59 FR 47527 Fax: 202 606-2153 Interim Final Rule 10/17/94 Agency Contact: Richard A. Ferris, Email: [email protected] Effective Date Associate Director, Investigations Next Action Undetermined Service, Office of Personnel RIN: 3206–AD76
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3847. PROCEDURES FOR SETTLING Completed: Small Entities Affected: None CLAIMS Reason Date FR Cite Government Levels Affected: None Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Withdrawn 03/20/98 63 FR 13564 Agency Contact: Angela Graham CFR Citation: 5 CFR 178 Small Entities Affected: None Humes Completed: Phone: 202 606-2848 Government Levels Affected: None Fax: 202 606-4264 Reason Date FR Cite Agency Contact: Larry Lorenz Email: [email protected] Final Action 12/31/97 62 FR 68139 Phone: 202 606-0830 RIN: 3206–AH80 Final Action Effective 01/30/98 Fax: 202 606-2329 RIN: 3206–AD68 Small Entities Affected: None 3854. ∑ PREVAILING RATE SYSTEMS; Government Levels Affected: None SURVEY ORDER MONTH CHANGE FOR JEFFERSON, NY, Agency Contact: Paul Britner 3851. RIF AND PERFORMANCE NONAPPROPRIATED FUND WAGE Phone: 202 606-2233 MANAGEMENT Priority: Other Significant AREA RIN: 3206–AH89 CFR Citation: 5 CFR 293; 5 CFR 351; Priority: Info./Admin./Other 5 CFR 430; 5 CFR 531 Legal Authority: 5 USC 5343 3848. FELLOWSHIP AND SIMILAR APPOINTMENTS IN THE EXCEPTED Completed: CFR Citation: 5 CFR 532 SERVICE Reason Date FR Cite Legal Deadline: None Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Final Action 11/24/97 62 FR 62495 Abstract: The Office of Personnel CFR Citation: 5 CFR 213 Final Action Effective 12/24/97 Management is issuing a proposed rule Small Entities Affected: None to change the survey order month Completed: beginning with the next full-scale Reason Date FR Cite Government Levels Affected: None survey for the Jefferson, New York, Agency Contact: Final Action 10/28/97 62 FR 55725 Ed McHugh nonappropriated fund Federal Wage Final Action Effective 11/28/97 Phone: 202 606-0960 System wage area. This change is Fax: 202 606-2329 expected to improve the survey data Small Entities Affected: None RIN: 3206–AH32 yield and to allow the Department of Government Levels Affected: None Defense to better balance its survey workload. Agency Contact: Sylvia Cole 3852. PAY UNDER THE GENERAL Timetable: Phone: 202 606-0024 SCHEDULE; LOCALITY PAY AREAS Fax: 202 606-2329 FOR 1998 Action Date FR Cite RIN: 3206–AH91 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant NPRM 09/02/97 62 FR 46221 CFR Citation: 5 CFR 531, subpart F Final Action 03/30/98 63 FR 15069 Final Action Effective 03/30/98 3849. AGENCY RELATIONSHIPS WITH Completed: ORGANIZATIONS REPRESENTING Small Entities Affected: None Reason Date FR Cite FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AND OTHER Government Levels Affected: None ORGANIZATIONS Final Action 12/12/97 62 FR 65311 Agency Contact: Mark Allen, Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Small Entities Affected: None Workforce Compensation and CFR Citation: 5 CFR 251 Government Levels Affected: None Performance Service, Office of Completed: Agency Contact: Jeanne D. Jacobson Personnel Management, Office of Compensation Administration, 1900 E Reason Date FR Cite Phone: 202 606-2858 Fax: 202 606-0824 St. NW., Washington, DC 20415 Final Action 01/15/98 63 FR 2305 Email: [email protected] Phone: 202 606-2848 Final Action Effective 01/15/98 Fax: 202 606-4264 RIN: 3206–AH65 Email: [email protected] Small Entities Affected: None RIN: 3206–AI01 Government Levels Affected: None 3853. PREVAILING RATE SYSTEMS; Agency Contact: Wade Plunkett SURVEY ORDER MONTH CHANGE 3855. ∑ PREVAILING RATE SYSTEMS; Phone: 202 606-1700 FOR JEFFERSON, NEW YORK, NONAPPROPRIATED FUND WAGE REMOVAL OF PUTNAM, RICHMOND, RIN: 3206–AH72 AREA AND ROCKLAND COUNTIES, NY, AND MONMOUTH COUNTY, NJ, FROM THE Priority: Info./Admin./Other 3850. AMENDMENT TO SELECTIVE NEW YORK, NY, APPROPRIATED SERVICE REGISTRATION CFR Citation: 5 CFR 532 FUND SURVEY AREA REQUIREMENTS Completed: Priority: Info./Admin./Other Priority: Info./Admin./Other Reason Date FR Cite Legal Authority: 5 USC 5343 CFR Citation: 5 CFR 300(g) Withdrawn 02/12/98 CFR Citation: 5 CFR 532
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Legal Deadline: None Small Entities Affected: None 3861. RETIREMENT AND INSURANCE BENEFITS DURING PERIODS OF Abstract: The Office of Personnel Government Levels Affected: None Management is issuing a proposed rule UNEXPLAINED ABSENCE to remove Putnam, Richmond, and Agency Contact: Murray M. Meeker Priority: Info./Admin./Other Rockland Counties, NY, and Monmouth Phone: 202 606-1700 Fax: 202 606-0082 CFR Citation: 5 CFR 831; 5 CFR 841; County, NJ, from the survey area of the 5 CFR 880 New York, NY, appropriated fund RIN: 3206–AH43 Federal Wage System wage area. The Completed: four counties will remain in the area Reason Date FR Cite of application of the New York, NY, 3858. COST-OF-LIVING ALLOWANCES Final Action 03/03/98 63 FR 10291 wage area. AND POST DIFFERENTIALS (NONFOREIGN AREAS; Final Action Effective 04/02/98 Timetable: MISCELLANEOUS CHANGES Small Entities Affected: None Action Date FR Cite Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant Government Levels Affected: None NPRM 11/03/97 62 FR 59300 Agency Contact: Harold Siegelman Final Action 12/24/97 62 FR 67257 CFR Citation: 5 CFR 591 Phone: 202 606-0299 Final Action Effective 01/23/98 Completed: Fax: 202 606-1108 Small Entities Affected: None Reason Date FR Cite Email: [email protected] Government Levels Affected: None Final Action 12/02/97 62 FR 63630 RIN: 3206–AH75 Agency Contact: Mark Allen, Final Action Effective 12/02/97 Workforce Compensation and Small Entities Affected: None 3862. ∑ RETIREMENT AND Performance Service, Office of INSURANCEÐWAIVER FROM Personnel Management, Office of Government Levels Affected: None CONTINUITY OF COVERAGE Compensation Administration, 1900 E REQUIREMENTS FOR CERTAIN St. NW., Washington, DC 20415 Agency Contact: Paul B. Malerba Phone: 202 606-2838 DECENNIAL CENSUS EMPLOYEES Phone: 202 606-2848 WITH DUAL APPOINTMENTS Fax: 202 606-4264 Fax: 202 606-4264 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Priority: Info./Admin./Other RIN: 3206–AI06 RIN: 3206–AH51 Legal Authority: 5 USC 8347(g); 5 USC 8402(c)(i); 5 USC 8716(b); 5 USC 8913(b) 3856. PAY ADMINISTRATION UNDER 3859. POLITICAL ACTIVITYÐ THE FLSA FEDERAL EMPLOYEES RESIDING IN CFR Citation: 5 CFR 831; 5 CFR 842; DESIGNATED LOCALITIES 5 CFR 870; 5 CFR 890 Priority: Routine and Frequent Legal Deadline: None CFR Citation: 5 CFR 551 Priority: Other Significant. Major under 5 USC 801. Abstract: These regulations provide an Completed: exemption from continuity of coverage CFR Citation: 5 CFR 733 Reason Date FR Cite requirements for Federal retirement, Completed: health insurance, and life insurance Final Action 12/23/97 62 FR 67238 benefits, for certain Federal employees Final Action Effective 01/23/98 Reason Date FR Cite who accept a second appointment to Small Entities Affected: None Final Action 01/30/98 63 FR 4555 perform intermittent decennial census Government Levels Affected: None Final Action Effective 03/02/98 duties. This exemption is to facilitate hiring Federal employees for the Agency Contact: Small Entities Affected: None Jeffrey D. Miller decennial census by eliminating Phone: 202 606-2530 Government Levels Affected: None administrative complexities that would Fax: 202 606-2663 otherwise result under current Agency Contact: Jo-Ann Chabot RIN: 3206–AG70 regulations. Phone: 202 606-0092 Fax: 202 606-0082 Timetable: 3857. PROCESSING GARNISHMENT RIN: Action Date FR Cite ORDERS FOR CHILD SUPPORT 3206–AF78 AND/OR ALIMONY AND COMMERCIAL NPRM 12/24/97 62 FR 67295 GARNISHMENT OF FEDERAL 3860. FEDERAL EMPLOYEES' Final Action 02/25/98 63 FR 9401 EMPLOYEES' PAY HEALTH AND COUNSELING Final Action Effective 03/27/98 Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant PROGRAMS Small Entities Affected: None CFR Citation: 5 CFR 581; 5 CFR 582 Completed: Government Levels Affected: None Completed: Reason Date FR Cite Agency Contact: Mary Ellen Wilson, Retirement and Insurance Service, Reason Date FR Cite Withdrawn - Duplicate 02/20/98 Office of Personnel Management, 1900 of RIN 3206-AI07 Final Action 03/26/98 63 FR 14756 E St. NW., Washington, DC 20415 Final Action Effective 04/27/98 RIN: 3206–AH93 Phone: 202 606-0299
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Fax: 202 606-1108 Email: [email protected] RIN: 3206–AI12 [FR Doc. 98-7568 Filed 04-24-98; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6325-01-F
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