U. S. Office of Personnel Management

FEDERAL REGISTER DOCUMENTS

March 1998

March 31, 1998: Proposed Civilian Acquisition Workforce Personnel Demonstration Project; Department of Defense (DoD); Correction

A correction to a notice published in the March 24 Federal Register. Further information may be obtained from Helen C. Onufrak at <hconufra@opm.gov>. [Federal Register Notice: PDF or text]

March 30, 1998: Federal Salary Council; Notice of Meetings

Gives notice that the fifty-third and fifty-fourth meetings of the Federal Salary Council will be held on April 16, 1998. Further information may be obtained from Ruth O'Donnell at <rmodonne@opm.gov>. [Federal Register Notice: PDF or text]

March 30, 1998: Prevailing Rate Systems; Survey Order Month Change for Jefferson, New York, Nonappropriated Fund Wage Area; Final Rule

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing a final rule to change the survey order month for the Jefferson, NY, nonappropriated fund (NAF) Federal Wage System (FWS) wage area from March to April beginning with the next full-scale wage survey for the Jefferson wage area in 1998. Further information may be obtained from Mark Allen at <maallen@opm.gov>. [Federal Register Regulation: PDF or text]

March 30, 1998: Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee; Open Committee Meeting

Gives notices of a meeting of the Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee on Thursday, April 2, 1998. Further information may be obtained from Phyllis G. Heuerman at <pgheuerm@opm.gov>. [Federal Register Notice: PDF or text]

March 26, 1998: Processing Garnishment Orders for Child Support and Alimony and Commercial Garnishment of Federal Employees' Pay; Final Rulemaking

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is finalizing amendments to its rules for processing garnishment orders for child support and alimony and to its rules for processing commercial garnishment orders. OPM is also updating the appendices to its regulations. Further information may be obtained from Murray M. Meeker at <mmmeeker@opm.gov>. [Federal Register Regulation: PDF or text] See also corrections published June 26, 1998.

March 26, 1998: Proposed Civilian Acquisition Workforce Personnel Demonstration Project; Department of Defense (DoD); Correction

Makes a correction to the notice published in the Federal Register on March 24. Further information may be obtained from Helen C. Onufrak at <hconufra@opm.gov>. [Federal Register Notice: PDF or text]

March 25, 1998: Science and Technology Laboratory Personnel Management Demonstration Project Final Plan: U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station (WES), Vicksburg, MS; Notice; Correction and Republication

Republication, with corrections, of a demonstration project plan that was originally published in the Federal Register on March 3, 1998. Further information may be obtained from Fidelma A. Donahue at <fadonahu@opm.gov>. [Federal Register Notice: PDF (243K File) or text (135K File, with some graphics omitted)]

March 24, 1998: Proposed Civilian Acquisition Workforce Personnel Demonstration Project; Department of Defense (DoD)

Announces that DoD is proposing a demonstration project to cover the civilian acquisition workforce and teams of personnel, more than half of which consist of members of the acquisition workforce and the remainder of which consist of supporting personnel assigned to work directly with the acquisition workforce, throughout DoD. Written comments must be submitted on or before the dates of the public hearings, which are scheduled at three locations beginning 23 April 1998. Further information may be obtained from Helen C. Onufrak at <hconufra@opm.gov>. [Federal Register Notice: PDF (2.4 Meg File) or text (135K File -- numerous graphics omitted from this verison)] See also corrections published in the Federal Register on March 26 and March 31.

March 23, 1998: Excepted Service; Notice

Gives notice of positions placed or revoked under Schedules A and B, and placed under Schedule C in the excepted service, between October 1, 1997, and January 31, 1998, as required by Civil Service Rule VI, Exceptions from the Competitive Service. Further information may be obtained from Patricia H. Paige at <phpaige@opm.gov>. [Federal Register Notice: PDF or text]

March 23, 1998: Statutory Bar to Appointment of Persons Who Fail To Register Under Selective Service Law; Notice of Withdrawal of Proposed Rulemaking

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is withdrawing its proposal to revise the regulations on Selective Service registration (published April 29, 1988, 53 FR 15400), which would have permitted executive agencies to determine whether an individual's failure to register with the Selective Service System was knowing and willful. Further information may be obtained from Sylvia Cole at <sdcole@opm.gov>. [Federal Register Notice: PDF or text]

March 23, 1998: Proposed Collection; Comment Request for Review of an Information Collection: Form RI 25-37

Announces that the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) intends to submit to the Office of Management and Budget a request for review of an information collection. Form RI 25-37, Evidence to Prove Dependency of a Child, is designed to collect sufficient information for the OPM to be able to determine whether the surviving child of a deceased Federal employee is eligible to receive benefits as a dependent child. To obtain copies of this proposal please contact James M. Farron at <jmfarron@opm.gov>. [Federal Register Notice: PDF or text]

March 19, 1998: Science and Technology Reinvention Laboratory Demonstration Project at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL); Correction

Contains a technical correction to a notice that appeared in the Federal Register on March 4, 1998. Further information may be obtained from Fidelma A. Donahue at <fadonahu@opm.gov>. [Federal Register Notice: PDF or text]

March 18, 1998: Submission for OMB Review: Comment Request for Reclearance of Expiring Information Collections

The Office of Personnel Management published three notices regarding submission to the Office of Management and Budget of requests for clearance of information collections under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, as follows:

Court Orders Affecting Retirement Benefits [Federal Register Notice: PDF or text]
Monthly Report of Full-time Equivalent/Work-Year Civilian Employment, Standard Form 113-G [Federal Register Notice: PDF or text]
Declaration for Federal Employment [FEGLI], Optional Form 306 [Federal Register Notice: PDF or text]

To obtain copies of these proposals please contact James M. Farron at <jmfarron@opm.gov>.

March 18, 1998: Executive Order 13078 of March 13, 1998, Increasing Employment of Adults With Disabilities

Among other things, this Executive Order states that "To ensure that the Federal Government is a model employer of adults with disabilities, by November 15, 1998, the Office of Personnel Management, the Department of Labor, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission shall submit to the Task Force a review of Federal Government personnel laws, regulations, and policies and, as appropriate, shall recommend or implement changes necessary to improve Federal employment policy for adults with disabilities." [Executive Order: PDF or text]

March 10, 1998: The National Partnership Council; Notice of Meeting

Provides notice of a meeting of the National Pertnership Council on March 20, 1998. Further information may be obtained from Rose M. Gwin at <rmgwin@opm.gov>. [Federal Register Notice: PDF or text]

March 5, 1998: Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee Open Committee Meetings

Gives notice of scheduled meetings of the Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee during April, May, and June 1998. Further information may be obtained from Phyllis G. Heuerman at <pgheuerm@opm.gov>. [Federal Register Notice: PDF or text]

March 4, 1998: Science and Technology Reinvention Laboratory Demonstration Project at the U. S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL); Notice of Approval of Demonstration Project Final Plan

This is the last of Army's first batch of five research lab demonstration projects. Further information may be obtained from Fidelma A. Donahue at <fadonahu@opm.gov>. [Federal Register Notice: PDF (752K file) or text (174K file)] See also correction published March 19, 1998.

March 3, 1998: Retirement and Insurance Benefits When an Annuitant Is Missing; Final Rule

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing regulations to establish a uniform standard that OPM will use in its administration of retirement and insurance benefits in cases in which an annuitant disappears. These regulations establish procedures to determine the status of the missing annuitant and allow OPM to provide benefits to the missing annuitant's dependents until the missing annuitant's status is resolved. Further information may be obtained from Harold L. Siegelman at <hsiegel@opm.gov>. [Federal Register Regulation: PDF or text]

March 3, 1998: Notices of Approval of Demonstration Project Final Plans; Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, and Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station

These are the third and fourth Army research lab demonstration projects in an initial group of five. (Army plans many more projects under the authority of Public Law 103-337, October 5, 1994.) The first two of the five labs, dealing with missile and aviation research, published their final plans on June 27, 1997. The fifth of the group, the Army Research Lab, published its plan on March 4 (above). Further information may be obtained from Fidelma A. Donahue at <fadonahu@opm.gov>.

Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, Fort Detrick, Frederick, MD [Federal Register Notice: PDF (225K file) or text (157K file)]
Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station (WES), Vicksburg, MS [Federal Register Notice: PDF (138K file) or text (148K file)] NOTE: A corrected version of this plan was published in the Federal Register on March 25, 1998.

Updated 26 June 1998