U. S. Office of Personnel Management
Federal Register Documents December 2000

December 28, 2000 Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee; Meeting: Notice of meeting.

TIME AND DATE: 11:00 a.m., January 2, 2001.
PLACE: OPM Executive Conference Room 5A06A, Theodore Roosevelt Building, 1900 E Street, NW., Washington, DC 20415-0001
STATUS: This meeting will be open to the public at 11:00 am.
MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: This meeting is called by the Office of the Chair with less than 15 days public notice so the Committee can complete its current agenda. The meeting is open to the public.
CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: Geri Coates, Recording Secretary, Office of Personnel Management, Theodore Roosevelt Building, 1900 E Street, NW., Room 5538, Washington, DC 20415-1600, (202) 606-1500.    PDF or TEXT]

December 28, 2000 Proposed Collection; Emergency Request for Review of an Information Collection: OPM Form 1644: Notice.

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13, May 22, 1995), this notice announces that the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) will submit to the Office of Management and Budget an emergency request for review of an expiring information collection. OPM Form 1644, Child Care Provider Information: Child Care Tuition Assistance Program for Federal Employees, is used to verify that child care providers are licensed and/or regulated by local and/or State authorities. Agencies need to know that child care providers to whom they make disbursements in the form of tuition assistance subsidies are licensed and/or regulated by local and/or State authorities. For copies of this proposal, contact Mary Beth Smith-Toomey on (202) 606-8358, or E-mail to mbtoomey@opm.gov.    PDF or TEXT]

December 28, 2000 Proposed Collection; Comment Request for Revision of an Information Collection: RI 30-1: Notice.

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Public Law 104-13, May 22, 1995), this notice announces that the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) intends to submit to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request for revision of an information collection. RI 30-1, Request to Disability Annuitant for Information on Physical Condition and Employment, is used by persons who are not yet age 60 and who are receiving disability annuity and are subject to inquiry as to their medical condition as OPM deems reasonably necessary. RI 30-1 collects information as to whether the disabling condition has changed. For copies of this proposal, contact Mary Beth Smith-Toomey on (202) 606-2150, or E-mail to mbtoomey@opm.gov.    PDF or TEXT]

December 28, 2000 Proposed Collection; Comment Request for Revision of an Information Collection: RI 38-31: Notice.

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Public Law 104-13, May 22, 1995), this notice announces that the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) intends to submit to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request for revision of an information collection. RI 38-31, Request for Information About Your Missing Payment, is sent in response to a notification by an individual of the loss or non-receipt of a payment from the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund. The form requests the information needed to enable OPM to trace and or reissue payment. Missing payments may also be reported to OPM by a telephone call. For copies of this proposal, contact Mary Beth Smith-Toomey on (202) 606-2150, or E-mail to mbtoomey@opm.gov.    PDF or TEXT]

December 28, 2000 Proposed Collection; Comment Request for Review of an Expiring Information Collection: OPM 1536: Notice.

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Public Law 104-13, May 22, 1995), 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 expiring information collection. OPM 1536, Application for Survivor Annuity Under the Civil Service Retirement System, is designed for use by former spouses of Federal employees and annuitants who are applying for a monthly Civil Service Retirement System benefit. For copies of this proposal, contact Mary Beth Smith-Toomey on (202) 606-8358, or E-mail to mbtoomey@opm.gov    PDF or TEXT]

December 28, 2000 Proposed Collection; Comment Request for Review of an Expiring Information Collection: OPM FORM 1644: Notice.

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Public Law 104-13, May 22, 1995), 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 expiring information collection. OPM Form 1644, Child Care Provider Information: Child Care Tuition Assistance Program for Federal Employees, is used to verify that child care providers are licensed and/or regulated by local and/or State authorities. Agencies need to know that child care providers to whom they make disbursements in the form of tuition assistance subsidies, are licensed and/or regulated by local and/or State authorities. For copies of this proposal, contact Mary Beth Smith-Toomey on (202) 606-8358, or E-mail to mbtoomey@opm.gov.    PDF or TEXT]

December 28, 2000 5 CFR Part 731 -- Suitability: Final rule.

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing final changes to the rule on personnel suitability which OPM previously issued as a proposed rule for comments. OPM received and considered public comments. This rule addresses the significant concerns expressed and incorporates some of the suggestions received. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Thomas DelPozzo, (724) 794-5612.    PDF or TEXT]

December 19, 2000 OPM Criteria for IRS Broadbanding System: Notice.

This publicizes final criteria for broadbanding systems for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998 authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to establish one or more broadbanding systems covering all or any portion of the IRS workforce under the General Schedule (GS). Title 5, United States Code, directs the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to prescribe criteria for IRS broadbanding systems and specifies certain principles that such criteria must follow, at a minimum. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gregory Zygiel, Workforce Compensation and Performance Service, Strategic Compensation Policy Center, OPM, 1900 E Street NW., Room 7305, Washington, DC 20415-8320, 202-606-8047, strategiccomp@opm.gov.    [Federal Register Regulation:] PDF or TEXT]

December 19, 2000 5 CFR Part 532 -- Prevailing Rate Systems; Change in the Survey Cycle for the Pennington, SD, Nonappropriated Fund Wage Area: Proposed rule with request for comments.

The Office of Personnel Management is issuing a proposed rule that would change the timing of local wage surveys in the Pennington, South Dakota, nonappropriated fund (NAF) Federal Wage System (FWS) wage area. The change would help balance the workload for the Department of Defense and improve the amount and quality of data it collects during local annual wage surveys in the Pennington wage area. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Chenty I. Carpenter at (202) 606-8359; by FAX at (202) 606-4264; or by email at cicarpen@opm.gov.    [Federal Register Regulation:] PDF or TEXT]

December 19, 2000 5 CFR Part 532 -- Prevailing Rate Systems; Abolishment of the Philadelphia, PA, Special Wage Schedule for Printing Positions: Final rule.

The Office of Personnel Management is issuing a final rule to abolish the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Federal Wage System (FWS) special wage schedule for printing positions. Printing and lithographic employees in the Philadelphia wage area will now be paid from the regular Philadelphia appropriated fund FWS wage area schedule. This change is necessary because there are no longer enough printing and lithographic employees in the wage area to conduct the local special wage survey successfully. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Chenty I. Carpenter at (202) 606-8359; by FAX at (202) 606-4264; or by email at cicarpen@opm.gov.    [Federal Register Regulation:] PDF or TEXT]

December 19, 2000 5 CFR Part 532 -- Prevailing Rate Systems; Abolishment of the St. Louis, MO, Special Wage Schedule for Printing Positions: Final rule.

The Office of Personnel Management is issuing a final rule that will abolish the St. Louis, MO, Federal Wage System (FWS) special wage schedule for printing positions. Printing and lithographic employees in the St. Louis wage area will now be paid from the regular St. Louis appropriated fund FWS wage area schedule. This change is necessary because there are no longer enough printing and lithographic employees in the wage area to conduct the local special wage survey successfully. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Chenty I. Carpenter at (202) 606-8359; by FAX at (202) 606-4264; or by email at cicarpen@opm.gov.    [Federal Register Regulation:] PDF or TEXT]

December 19, 2000 5 CFR Part 532 -- Prevailing Rate Systems; Redefinition of the Los Angeles, CA, Appropriated Fund Wage Area: Final rule.

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing a final rule to remove Inyo County, CA, from the Los Angeles, CA, appropriated fund Federal Wage System (FWS) wage area. The county, excluding the China Lake Naval Weapons Center portion, will be defined to the Las Vegas, NV, FWS wage area. This will affect FWS employees at Death Valley National Park by placing them on a higher wage schedule. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Chenty I. Carpenter by phone at (202) 606-2838, by FAX at (202) 606-4264, or by email at cicarpen@opm.gov.    [Federal Register Regulation:] PDF or TEXT]

December 14, 2000 Excepted Service; Career and Career-Conditional Employment

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing interim regulations to implement the staffing provisions of the Federal Career Intern Program. This program will serve to assist agencies in recruiting and attracting exceptional men and women who have a variety of experience, academic disciplines, or competencies necessary for the effective analysis and execution of public programs.   [Interim regulations with request for comments. :    [Federal Register Regulation:] PDF or TEXT]

December 7, 2000 Privacy Act of 1974; Computer Matching Program Between the Office of Personnel Management and the Social Security Administration: Notice

OPM is publishing notice of its computer matching program with SSA to meet the reporting and publication requirements of Public Law 100-503, the Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 1988. In this match, SSA records are used in redetermining and recomputing certain annuitants' benefits where computations are based, in part, on military service performed after December 1956 under the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) and for annuitants under the Federal Employees' Retirement System (FERS) who have a CSRS component in their FERS annuity computation. The purpose of this match is to identify these beneficiaries.    [Federal Register Regulation:] PDF or TEXT]

December 7, 2000 Excepted Service: Notice

This gives notice of positions placed or revoked under Schedules placed 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.    [Federal Register Regulation:] PDF or TEXT]

December 5, 2000 Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee; Open Committee Meetings: Notice

According to the provisions of section 10 of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), notice is hereby given that meetings of the Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee will be held on--
Thursday, December 14, 2000
Thursday, December 21, 2000

The meeting will start at 10:00 a.m. and will be held in Room 5A06A, Office of Personnel Management Building, 1900 E Street, NW., Washington, DC.
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December 1, 2000 Pay Under the General Schedule; Locality-Based Comparability Payments: Rule

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing final regulations to change the boundaries of two locality pay areas for 2001 by adding areas of application to the Boston-Worcester-Lawrence, MA-NH-ME-CT, locality pay area and the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, CA, locality pay area. We are adding the State of Rhode Island as an area of application to the Boston locality pay area and Monterey County, CA, as an area of application to the San Francisco locality pay area. These changes are based on recommendations of the Federal Salary Council, a body composed of experts in the fields of labor relations or pay setting and representatives of Federal employee organizations. Based on comments received on the proposed regulations, we are also adding to the Boston locality pay area the portion of Bristol County, MA, not already included in the Boston area.    [Federal Register Regulation:] PDF or TEXT]

Created 1 January 2001