U. S. Office of Personnel Management

FEDERAL REGISTER DOCUMENTS

March 1995

March 29, 1995: Federal Employees Health Benefits Acquisition Regulation Filing Health Benefit Claims; Addition of Contract Clause
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing interim regulations to add a new contract clause of the Federal Employees Health Benefits Acquisition Regulation (FEHBAR). The clause clarifies for both FEHB carriers and covered individuals the circumstances under which OPM may render a decision regarding a covered individual who asks OPM to review a health benefits plan's denial of a claim if the plan has either affirmed its denial when the covered individual requested reconsideration, or failed to respond to the covered individual's request for reconsideration as provided by OPM's regulations.
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March 29, 1995: Federal Employees Health Benefits Program: Filing Claims; Disputed Claims Procedures and Court Actions
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing interim regulations to revise the requirement that legal actions to recover on a claim under the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program should be brought against the health benefits carrier rather than OPM, and to clarify the procedures for filing claims for payment or service under the FEHB Program.
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March 22, 1995: Federal Employees Health Benefits Program; HMO Plan Applications
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing proposed regulations that would clarify the policy under which it invites applications from comprehensive medical plans (HMO's) to participate in the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program. This clarification is necessary in order to ensure that OPM and the HMO's are providing the best possible service to FEHB enrollees.
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March 21, 1995: Notice of Request for Expedited Review of Employment Information Customer Service Survey
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 (title 44, U.S. Code, chapter 35), this notice announces a request for clearance of a new information collection. The Employment Information Customer Service Survey authorized by Executive Order 12862, will be used to determine the job seeking public's level of satisfaction with OPM's service.
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March 21, 1995: Notice of Request for Reclearance of an Information Collection for Comprehensive Medical Plans
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 (title 44, U.S. Code, chapter 35), this notice announces a request for reclearance of an information collection. Comprehensive Medical Plans: Applications to Participate in Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program and Contractor Records Retention is used by OPM to determine if Comprehensive Medical Plans applying for participation in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program meet the requirements for participation.
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March 20, 1995: Prevailing Rate Systems; Abolishment of Clinton, NY, Nonappropriated Fund Wage Area
The Office of Personnel Management is issuing interim regulations to abolish the Clinton, NY, nonappropriated fund (NAF) Federal Wage System (FWS) wage area and add Clinton County, NY, as an area of application to the Oneida, NY, NAF wage area for pay-setting purposes. No employee's wage rate will be reduced as a result of this change.
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March 16, 1995: Termination of Survivor Annuity Entitlement Based on Remarriage Before Age 55
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing final regulations concerning survivor annuity entitlement under the Civil Service Retirement System and Federal Employees Retirement System. The regulations facilitate qualification for a current spouse survivor annuity in certain cases involving a former spouse's remarriage to a retiree.
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March 14, 1995: Suitability, Personnel Security and Related Programs, Investigations, and Suitability Disqualification Actions
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is adopting as final an interim rule that revoked the section of its interim regulations that established the OPM Review Panel
(5 CFR Part 731, subpart E), and issued a new subpart E that spells out procedures for appealing adverse suitability determinations to the Merit Systems Protection Board.
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March 13, 1995: Federal Employees Health Benefits Program; Invitation for Applications and Benefits Change Proposals
Notice is hereby given that the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) will consider new applications from HMO's for the FEHB Program contract year beginning January 1, 1996. OPM will also consider benefits change proposals from plans currently in the FEHB Program.
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March 10, 1995: Federal Employees Retirement System--Computation of the Basic Employee Death Benefit for Customer Officers
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing final regulations concerning the use of overtime and premium pay in determining the final annual rate of basic pay of customs officers under the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS). These regulations establish the methodology (similar to the one that OPM uses for other flexible schedule employees) that the employing agency will use to compute customs officers' "final annual rate of basic pay'' for determining FERS "basic employee death benefit.''
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March 10, 1995: Commercial Garnishment of Federal Employees' Pay
The Office of Personnel management (OPM) is finalizing its interim regulations for processing garnishment actions affecting Federal employees' pay for commercial indebtednesses and tax obligations due to State and local governments. This part provides procedures and guidance for Executive Branch agencies of the Federal Government, not including the Postal Service or the Postal Rate Commission, to process commercial garnishment orders affecting the pay of civilian employees.
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March 10, 1995: Notice of Request for Reclearance of Form SF 2800
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 (title 44, U.S. Code, chapter 35), this notice announces a request for reclearance of an information collection. Form SF 2800, Application for Death Benefits Under the Civil Service Retirement [[Page 13190]] System, is used to collect information so that OPM can pay death benefits to the survivors of federal employees and annuitants.
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March 10, 1995: Notice of Request for Expedited Review of Revised Form RI 10-72
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 (title 44, U.S. Code, chapter 35), this notice announces a request for expedited review of a revised information collection. Form RI 10-72, Client Satisfaction Survey, is used to determine how well the Office of Personnel Management has served federal civil service annuitants and survivor annuitants.
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March 7, 1995: Prevailing Rate Systems; Redefinition of Scranton-Wilkes-Barre, PA; Harrisburg, PA; Washington, DC; and Waco, TX, Wage Areas
The Office of Personnel Management is issuing a final rule to remove Schuylkill County, PA, from the Scranton-Wilkes-Barre, PA, Federal Wage System wage area and reassign the county to the Harrisburg, PA, area of application. This rule also moves Adams County and Perry County, PA, from the Harrisburg survey area to the Harrisburg area of application.
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March 7, 1995: Prevailing Rate Systems; Abolishment of Cook, IL, Nonappropriated Fund Wage Area
The Office of Personnel Management is issuing a final rule to abolish the Cook, IL, nonappropriated fund (NAF) Federal Wage System wage area and add Cook County, IL, as an area of application to the Lake, IL, NAF wage area for pay-setting purposes.
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March 1, 1995: Presidential Management Intern Program
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing interim regulations governing selection and employment procedures for Presidential Management Intern positions as part of the implementation of Federal Personnel Manual (FPM) sunset. The regulations incorporate certain requirements that existed in the provisionally retained FPM and were abolished on December 31, 1994.
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