April 2, 1996
                                   DO-96-017


MEMORANDUM

TO:       Designated Agency Ethics Officials

FROM:     Stephen D. Potts
          Director

SUBJECT:  Office of Government Ethics' Fourth Biennial Report to           
          Congress

     Enclosed in this envelope is a copy of the Office of
Government Ethics' (OGE) Fourth Biennial Report to Congress.  This
report is required by statute to be submitted every two years by
the end of March.  Because of OGE's limited printing budget, we are
able to provide each agency with only one copy.  We ask that you
share this copy with your ethics staff.  If you wish additional
copies for those in your agency who work in the ethics program, you
may reproduce copies of the report from the camera ready copy
available on The Ethics Bulletin Board (TEBBS).  A camera ready,
reproducible copy of the report will also appear on the April 1996
edition of The Ethics CD-ROM. 

     Later this year, we will provide Congress with a report on the
information we have received from agencies through the annual
questionnaires.  While we have had difficulties in the past
compiling information from the questionnaire by the end of March of
the years in which we were required to submit a biennial report,
this year with its furloughs proved more difficult than ever.  We
will provide you with a copy of that report once it is completed.