U. S. Office of Personnel Management
	Federal Register Documents November 2001

November 23, 2001   [Notice.]
Proposed Collection; Comment Request for Review of a Revised Information Collection: RI 20-80

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) intends to submit to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request for review of a revised information collection. RI 20-80, Alternative Annuity Election, is used for individuals who are eligible to elect whether to receive a reduced annuity and a lump-sum payment equal to their retirement contributions (alternative form of annuity) or an unreduced annuity and no lump sum.
For copies of this proposal, contact Mary Beth Smith-Toomey on (202) 606-8358, FAX (202) 418-3251 or E-mail to mbtoomey@opm.gov. Please include a mailing address with your request.
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November 23, 2001   [Notice.]
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request for Review of a Revised Information Collection: RI 38-47

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget a request for review of a revised information collection. Information and Instructions on Your Reconsideration Rights, RI 38-47, outlines the procedures required to request reconsideration of an initial OPM decision about Civil Service or Federal Employees retirement, retired Federal or Federal Employee Health Benefits requests to enroll or change enrollment, or Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance coverage.
For copies of this proposal, contact Mary Beth Smith-Toomey on (202) 606-8358, FAX (202) 418-3251 or E-mail to mbtoomey@opm.gov. Please include a mailing address with your request.
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November 23, 2001   [Notice.]
Comment Request for Review of an Existing Information Collection: OPM 2809

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) intends to submit to the Office of Management and Budget a request for review of an existing information collection. OPM 2809, Health Benefits Registration Form, is used by annuitants and former spouses to elect, cancel, or change health benefits enrollment during periods other than open season.
For copies of this proposal, contact Mary Beth Smith-Toomey on (202) 606-8358, FAX (202) 418-3251 or E-mail to mbtoomey@opm.gov. Please include a mailing address with your request.
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November 23, 2001   [Notice.]
Submission for OMB Review: Comment Request; Review of Revised Information Collection: OPM 1647

The Office of Personnel Management submitted a request for renewal of authorization for a revised information collection to the Office of Management and Budget. OPM Form 1647, Combined Federal Campaign Eligibility Application, is used to review the eligibility of national, international, and local charitable organizations that wish to participate in the Combined Federal Campaign.
For copies of this proposal, contact Mary Beth Smith-Toomey on (202) 606-8358, FAX (202) 418-3251 or E-mail to mbtoomey@opm.gov. Please include a mailing address with your request.
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November 19, 2001   [Notice.]
Excepted Service

This gives notice of positions placed or revoked under Schedule C in the excepted service, as required by Civil Service Rule VI, Exceptions from the Competitive Service.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Pam Shivery, Director, Washington Service Center, Employment Service (202) 606-1015.
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November 19, 2001   [Notice.]
Submission for OMB Review Comment Request for Review of an Information Collection

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget a request for review of an information collection. RI 20-64, Former Spouse Survivor Annuity Election, is used by the Civil Service Retirement System to provide information about the amount of annuity payable after a survivor reduction and to obtain a survivor benefits election from annuitants who are eligible to elect to provide survivor benefits for a former spouse.
For copies of this proposal, contact Mary Beth Smith-Toomey via FAX (202) 418-3251 or e-mail to mbtoomey@opm.gov. Please include your mailing address with your request.
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November 19, 2001   [Notice.]
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request for Review of an Existing Information Collection: Court Orders Affecting Retirement Benefits

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget a request for review of an existing information collection. The regulations describe how former spouses give us written notice of a court order requiring us to pay benefits to the former spouse. Specific information is needed before OPM can make court-ordered benefit payments.
For copies of this proposal, contact Mary Beth Smith-Toomey via FAX (202) 418-3251 or e-mail to mbtoomey@opm.gov. Please include your mailing address with your request.
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November 9, 2001   [Proposed Rule.]
Cost-of-Living Allowances (Nonforeign Areas); Methodology Changes

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is proposing wide-ranging changes in the methodology used to determine nonforeign area cost-of-living allowances (COLAs). OPM is proposing these changes pursuant to the settlement of litigation regarding the COLA program. For clarity and ease of use, OPM has written the proposed regulations in a question-and-answer format.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Donald L. Paquin, (202) 606-2838; fax: (202) 606-4264; or e-mail: COLA@opm.gov.
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November 9, 2001   [Final Rule.]
Cost-of-Living Allowances (Nonforeign Areas); Commissary/Exchange Rates; Survey Frequency; Gradual Reductions

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is adopting as final two interim regulations regarding nonforeign area cost-of-living allowances (COLAs). OPM is also addressing comments received in response to the publication of the 1998 COLA survey report. The two interim rules implemented increases in the COLA rates paid to certain Federal employees in several of the COLA areas.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Donald L. Paquin, (202) 606-2838; fax: (202) 606-4264; or e-mail: COLA@opm.gov.
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November 9, 2001   [Interim Rule.]
Cost-of-Living Allowances (Nonforeign Areas); Commissary/Exchange Rates; Survey Frequency; Gradual Reductions

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing interim regulations to implement recent amendments to Executive Order 10000 regarding nonforeign area cost-of-living allowances (COLAs). These regulations eliminate the separate COLA rate paid to Federal employees with commissary and exchange privileges; allow OPM to conduct COLA surveys less frequently; and permit OPM to reduce COLA rates gradually regardless of the cause of the reduction.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Donald L. Paquin, (202) 606-2838; fax: (202) 606-4264; or e-mail: COLA@opm.gov.
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November 9, 2001   [Notice.]
Proposed Collection; Comment Request for Review of an Information Collection: Standard Form 2800 and SF 2800A

This notice 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. SF 2800, Application for Death Benefits Under the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS), is needed to collect information so that OPM can pay death benefits to the survivors of Federal employees and annuitants. SF 2800A, Documentation and Elections in Support of Application for Death Benefits When Deceased Was an Employee at the Time of Death, is needed for deaths in service only so that survivors can make the needed elections regarding military service.
For copies of this proposal, contact Mary Beth Smith-Toomey on (202) 606-8358, FAX (202) 418-3251 or E-mail to mbtoomey@opm.gov. Please include your mailing address with your request.
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November 6, 2001   [Interim rule, correction.]
Absence and Leave; Use of Restored Annual Leave

This document corrects the effective date of the interim regulations that were originally published in the Federal Register on Friday, November 2, 2001 (66 FR 55557). The interim regulations provide that employees who would forfeit excess annual leave because of their work to support the Nation during the current national emergency will be deemed to have scheduled their excess annual leave in advance. The correct effective date of the interim regulations is November 2, 2001.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sharon A. Herzberg at (202) 606-2858, FAX (202) 606-0824, or email payleave@opm.gov.
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November 2, 2001   [Interim rule with request for comments.]
Absence and Leave; Use of Restored Annual Leave

The Office of Personnel Management is issuing interim regulations to aid agencies and employees responding to the ``National Emergency by Reason of Certain Terrorist Attacks'' on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The regulations provide that employees who would forfeit excess annual leave because of their work to support the nation during the national emergency will be deemed to have scheduled their excess annual leave in advance. Such employees will be entitled to restoration of their annual leave under these regulations.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sharon A. Herzberg, (202) 606-2858.
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Created 1 December 2001