[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 2]
[Revised as of January 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR720.303]

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                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
          CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT (Continued)
 
PART 720--AFFIRMATIVE EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMS--Table of Contents
 
         Subpart C--Disabled Veterans Affirmative Action Program
 
Sec. 720.303  Agency programs.

    (a) Continuing Programs. Each Department, agency, and 
instrumentality in the executive branch, including the U.S. Postal 
Service and the Postal Rate Commission, shall conduct a continuing 
affirmative program for the recruitment, hiring, placement, and 
advancement of disabled veterans.
    (b) Program Responsibility. The head of each agency shall assign 
overall program responsibility to an appropriate agency official. The 
official so designated shall be at a high enough level to ensure 
effective program administration and the devotion of adequate resources 
to the program.
    (c) Problem Analysis.
    (1) Annually, OPM will provide appropriate data on the employment of 
disabled veterans to each agency participating in the Central Personnel 
Data File (CPDF). These data will be taken from CPDF. For DVAAP 
purposes, CPDF data are considered to be the offical record of the 
status of disabled veteran employment within each participating agency. 
Each participating agency is responsible for assuring that such records 
are timely, accurate, and complete.
    (2) CPDF data must be analyzed by participating agencies to identify 
problem areas and deficiencies in the employment and advancement of 
disabled veterans. (OPM will establish with each agency not 
participating in CPDF, the nature and extent of data to be used in 
identifying problems and deficiencies.) Based on this analysis, agencies 
shall develop methods to improve the recruitment, hiring, placement, and 
advancement of disabled veterans, or revise or redirect existing 
methods, as necessary. These methods must then be translated into action 
items.