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Balancing The Workload: Filing and Training

In response to the new training regulation at subpart G of 5 C.F.R.part 2638, the Department of Energy (DOE) intends to provide verbal ethics training every other year to non-public financial disclosure filers who require annual ethics training. During the alternate years, DOE employees will receive annual ethics training via written means.

DOE will offer confidential financial disclosure filers the option of filing the OGE Optional Form 450-A, if appropriate, during the years that verbal training is provided. This method is intended to balance the workload of ethics officials who both provide training and administer the confidential financial disclosure system, and will ease the process of tracking the type of training provided.

All employees who receive ethics training by written means are required to complete a certification form. Attendance will be tracked at verbal training sessions using sign-in sheets.