[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: 5CFR846.723]

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                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
          CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT (Continued)
 
PART 846--FEDERAL EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM--ELECTIONS OF COVERAGE--Table of Contents
 
                Subpart G--1998 Open Enrollment Elections
 
Sec. 846.723  Agency responsibilities.

    (a) The employing office must determine whether the employee is 
eligible to elect FERS coverage.
    (b)(1) As close as practicable to the beginning of the open 
enrollment period, the employing office must provide each employee 
eligible to elect FERS coverage with notice of that employee's right to 
make an election.
    (2) The employing office must provide each employee eligible to 
elect FERS coverage with a copy of or ready access to the FERS Transfer 
Handbook.
    (c) An election received by an employing office before July 1, 1998, 
is deemed to have been received by the employing office on July 1, 1998.
    (d) An agency decision that an employee is not eligible to elect 
FERS coverage or refusing to accept a belated election under 
Sec. 846.724 must be in writing, must fully set forth the findings and 
conclusions of the agency, and must notify the employee of the right to 
appeal the decision under this section to the Merit Systems Protection 
Board, including all information required under the Board's regulations. 
See 5 CFR 1201.21.