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U. S. Office of Personnel Management
FEDERAL REGISTER DOCUMENTS
June 1998
June 30, 1998: Hazardous Duty Pay; Proposed Rule
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The Office of Personnel Management is issuing a proposed
regulation to provide an 8 percent hazard pay differential for General
Schedule employees who perform work at a worksite a more than 3900
meters (12,795 feet) in altitude, provided such employees are required
to commute to the worksite on the same day from a substantially lower
altitude under circumstances in which the rapid change in altitude may
result in acclimation problems. Further information may be obtained from Kevin Kitchelt at <payleave@opm.gov>. [Federal Register Notice: PDF or text] See also corrections published in the Federal Register of July 23, 1998.
June 26, 1998: Processing Garnishment Orders for Child Support and Alimony and
Commercial Garnishment of Federal Employees' Pay; Final Rule; Correction
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Corrects errors that appeared in the list of
agents designated to accept legal process for child support and alimony
and the list of agents designated to facilitate the service of legal
process on Federal employees (Appendices A and B to Part 581) that were
published on March 26, 1998 (63 FR 14756). Further information may be obtained from Murray M. Meeker at <mmmeeker@opm.gov>. [Federal Register Regulation: PDF or text]
June 25, 1998: Privacy Act of 1974; Computer Matching Program Between the Office
of Personnel Management and the Social Security Administration
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The Office of Personnel Management is publishing notice of its computer matching program with
SSA to meet the reporting and publication requirements of Public Law
100-503, the Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 1988. The
purpose of this match is to identify beneficiaries who have remarried
and not reported the remarriages to OPM. Further information may be obtained from Marc Flaster at <mflaster@opm.gov>. [Federal Register Regulation: PDF or text]
June 24, 1998: Employment in the Senior Executive Service; Promotion and
Internal Placement; Interim Regulations with Request for Comments
- The Office of Personnel Management is issuing interim
regulations to correct existing regulations which are inconsistent with
statutory provisions governing the 120-day moratorium on involuntary
reassignments of career Senior Executive Service (SES) appointees
following the appointment of a new agency head or a new noncareer
immediate supervisor; and to authorize agencies to reinstate SES career
appointees who have competitive service reinstatement eligibility to
career appointments in any competitive service position for which
qualified, including Senior Level (SL) positions. Further information may be obtained from Bede Bender at <babender@opm.gov>. [Federal Register Regulation: PDF or text]
June 23, 1998: Retention Allowances; Interim Rule
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The Office of Personnel Management is issuing interim
regulations to provide agencies with discretionary authority to pay
retention allowances of up to 10 percent of an employee's rate of basic
pay (or up to 25 percent with OPM approval) to a group or category of
employees in certain limited circumstances. This change will have the effect of
providing agencies with greater flexibility in responding to a possible
increased need for retention incentives for computer programmers who
must make the computer system changes needed to meet the year 2000
conversion requirements. Further information may be obtained from Paul Shields at <payleave@opm.gov>. [Federal Register Regulation: PDF or text]
June 23, 1998: Prevailing Rate Systems; Redefinition of Philadelphia, PA, and
New York, NY, Appropriated Fund Wage Areas; Proposed Rule
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The Office of Personnel Management is issuing a proposed rule
that would redefine Ocean County, NJ, excluding the portion occupied by
the Fort Dix Military Reservation, from the area of application of the
Philadelphia, PA, appropriated fund Federal Wage System (FWS) wage area
to the area of application of the New York, NY, wage area. Further information may be obtained from Mark A. Allen at <maallen@opm.gov>. [Federal Register Regulation: PDF or text]
June 18, 1998: Federal Employees Retirement System--Open Enrollment Act Implementation; Interim Rule
- The Office of Personnel Management is issuing interim
regulations to implement the Federal Employees Retirement System Open
Enrollment Act of 1997. These regulations provide information about who
may make open-enrollment-period elections and the procedures that
employees must follow to elect Federal Employees Retirement System
(FERS) coverage during the 1998 open enrollment period, and that
agencies must follow in advising employees about such elections of FERS
coverage and in processing such elections of FERS coverage. Further information may be obtained from Harold L. Siegelman at <hsiegel@opm.gov>. [Federal Register Regulation: PDF or text]
June 15, 1998:
Voluntary Early Retirement Authority; Interim Rule
- The Office of Personnel Management is publishing interim
regulations covering Federal employee voluntary early retirements to
implement new procedures affecting the application of voluntary early
retirements. These temporary provisions affect agency requests, OPM
approval, and agency offers of voluntary early retirement as well as
several eligibility requirements for early retirement during a major
reorganization, major reduction in force, or major transfer of
function. The basic age and service requirements for voluntary early
retirement remain unchanged. Further information may be obtained from Edward P. McHugh at <epmchugh@opm.gov> or Gregory P. Keller at <gpkeller@opm.gov>. [Federal Register Regulation: PDF or text]
June 15, 1998: Reduction in Force Retreat Right; Final Rulemaking
- The Office of Personnel Management is issuing final
regulations that clarify employees' "Retreat" rights. These final
regulations also clarify the content of specific reduction in force
notices. Further information may be obtained from Thomas A. Glennon at <taglenno@opm.gov> or Jacqui R.
Yeatman at <jryeatma@opm.gov>. [Federal Register Regulation: PDF or text]
June 12, 1998: Excepted Service, Notice
- Gives notice of positions placed or revoked under
Schedules A and B, and placed under Schedule C in the excepted service, during April 1998, as required by Civil Service Rule VI, Exceptions from the Competitive Service. Further information may be obtained from Patricia H. Paige at <phpaige@opm.gov>. [Federal Register Notice: PDF or text]
June 12, 1998: Submission for OMB Review: Comment Request for Reclearance of Expiring Information Collections
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The Office of Personnel Management published five notices regarding submission to the Office of Management and Budget of requests for clearance of information collections under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, as follows:
- Standard Form 1153, Claim for Unpaid Compensation of
Deceased Civilian Employee, helps determine claimants' and others'
rights to deceased employees' unpaid compensation. [Federal Register Notice: PDF or text]
- Two information collections--a price survey and a background
survey--to gather data to be used in determining cost-of-living
allowances (COLAs) for certain Federal employees in Alaska, Hawaii,
Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico,
and the U.S. Virgin Islands. [Federal Register Notice: PDF or text]
- Standard Form 113-G collects data
for the Monthly Report of Full-time Equivalent/Work-Year Civilian
Employment. [Federal Register Notice: PDF or text]
- RI 20-63, Survivor Annuity Election for a Spouse, is used by the
Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) to provide information and a
survivor benefits election opportunity to annuitants who have notified
the CSRS that they have married. [Federal Register Notice: PDF or text]
- RI 38-47, Information and Instructions on Your Reconsideration
Rights, outlines the procedures required to request
reconsideration of an initial OPM decision about Civil Service or
Federal Employees retirement, Retired Federal or Federal Employee
Health Benefits requests to enroll or change enrollment, or Federal
Employees' Group Life Insurance coverage. [Federal Register Notice: PDF or text]
To obtain copies of these proposals please contact Mary Beth Smith-Toomey at <mbtoomey@opm.gov>.
June 8, 1998: Submission For OMB Review; Comment Request For Reclearance of an
Information Collection: OPM Form 2809
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Announces that the Office of
Personnel Management (OPM) intends to submit to the Office of
Management and Budget a request for reclearance of an information
collection. OPM Form 2809, Health Benefits Registration Form, is used
by annuitants and former spouses to elect, cancel, or change health
benefits enrollment during periods other than open season. To obtain copies of this proposal please contact Mary Beth Smith-Toomey at <mbtoomey@opm.gov>. [Federal Register Notice: PDF or text]
June 3, 1998: January 1998 Pay Adjustments; Notice
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The rates of basic pay and locality payments for certain
categories of Federal employees were adjusted in January 1998, as
authorized by the President. This notice documents those pay
adjustments for the public record. Further information may be obtained from Sharon Herzberg at <payleave@opm.gov>. [Federal Register Notice: PDF or text]
June 3, 1998: Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request for Revision of
Information Collection, RI 20-64 & RI 20-64A; Notice
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Announces that the Office of
Personnel Management will submit to the Office of Management and Budget
a request for revision of the following information collection. RI 20-
64, Former Spouse Survivor Annuity Election, is used by the Civil
Service Retirement System to provide information about the amount of
annuity payable after a survivor reduction and obtain a survivor
benefits election form from annuitants who are eligible to elect to
provide survivor benefits for a former spouse. RI 20-64A, Information
On Electing A Survivor Annuity For Your Former Spouse, is a pamphlet
that provides important information to retirees under the Civil Service
Retirement System who want to provide a survivor annuity for a former
spouse. To obtain copies of this proposal please contact Mary Beth Smith-Toomey at <mbtoomey@opm.gov>. [Federal Register Notice: PDF or text]
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