March 8, 2001
                                           DO-01-006
                                           



MEMORANDUM

TO:       Designated Agency Ethics Officials

FROM:     Jack Covaleski
          Deputy Director, Office of Agency Programs

SUBJECT:  Yearly Update of List of Executive Branch Agency
          Officials Required to File Annual Public Financial
          Disclosure Reports with the Office of Government Ethics
          (OGE) 

     Title I of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, as amended,
requires annual public financial disclosure reports (SF 278) to be
filed with the appropriate department or agency no later than
May 15.  The SF 278s of Presidential appointees confirmed by the
Senate (PAS) and Designated Agency Ethics Officials (DAEO) must be
submitted to this Office for final review and certification. 
Attached is a list of the names and positions of those officials
who were required to submit a nominee, new entrant, or annual
SF 278 either last year or late in 1999. 

     Please annotate this list to reflect any changes (additions or
deletions) to the officials named or positions identified.  Please
return the list, as annotated, to this Office by April 9, 2001. 
For your convenience, you may phone in, fax, or E-mail "No Change"
lists.  The fax number for the Financial Disclosure Division is
202-208-8038.  Because of the change of Presidential
administrations, we expect that many of the listed officials either
have left or will be leaving before May 15th and will be filing
termination instead of annual reports.  Please indicate the
termination date in these cases.  

     In the case of officials who have transferred from the
position, please indicate whether the official transferred within
30 days to another covered position (PAS or non-PAS) requiring
SF 278 reporting.  If not, a termination report is  required within
30 days of the transfer.  In addition, please indicate which
officials did not work more than 60 days in CY 2000 and are not
required to file an annual report.  Conversely, please add to the
list the names of any PAS special Government employees who actually
worked in excess of 60 days in CY 2000 at an annual rate of basic
pay equivalent to 120 percent of GS-15, step 1, which equaled
$93,136.80 (or $357.04 per day) in CY 2000.  Do not include the
names of officials serving temporarily in PAS positions in an
acting capacity, since those officials are not Senate confirmed and
their reports are not required to be submitted to this Office. 
     If you have any questions, please contact Tom Zorn, Chief,
Financial Disclosure Division, or Lorna Syme at 202-208-8000,
extension 1123, or extension 1141, respectively.  Their E-mail
addresses are tfzorn@oge.gov and lasyme@oge.gov.
    
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