U. S. Office of Personnel Management
FEDERAL REGISTER DOCUMENTS
October 1995
- October 30, 1995: Appointment of Nonstatus Employees Entitled to Placement in a Different Agency Upon Restoration to Duty From Uniformed Service.
- The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing
interim regulations to permit Schedule A appointments of
certain excepted service employees who are entitled to
placement in a different agency if their original
employing agency cannot reemploy them following uniformed
service. These regulations implement the Uniformed
Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994
(USERRA), Public Law 103-353, which mandates such
placement. Interim regulations setting out the categories
of employees who are eligible for this assistance and
OPM's responsibility for placing them were published for
comment on September
1, 1995 (60 FR 45650).
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- October 30, 1995: Prevailing Rate Systems; Abolishment of Marin-Sonoma, CA, Nonappropriated Fund Wage Area
- The Office of Personnel Management is issuing interim
regulations to abolish the Marin-Sonoma, CA,
nonappropriated fund (NAF) Federal Wage System (FWS) wage
area and redefine the two counties having continuing FWS
employment (Marin and Sonoma Counties) as areas of
application to the Solano, CA, 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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- October 27, 1995: Notice of Intent To Request OMB Approval for Continuation of Form OPM-1386
- Under the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995 (44 U.S.C. 3506-3507), the Office of Personnel
Management plans to submit to the Office of Management
and Budget a request to extend its approval of form
OPM-1386, Applicant Race and National Origin
Questionnaire, which gathers information concerning the
race and national origin of applicants for employment
under the Outstanding Scholar provision of the Luevano
Consent Decree, 93 F.R.D. 68 (1981).
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- October 27, 1995: Child Abuse Accountability Act Implementation
- The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is adopting its
interim regulations to implement the Child Abuse
Accountability Act. The Act requires OPM to comply with
certain court orders for the enforcement of a judgment
rendered against an employee or retiree for physical,
sexual, or emotional abuse of a child. These regulations
establish procedures under which OPM will receive and
process court orders, determine the amounts available to
satisfy a court order, and make payments under the Act.
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- October 27, 1995: Processing Garnishment Orders for Child Support and/or Alimony
- This document contains corrections to two sets of final
regulations. This document corrects the final regulations
which were published on Wednesday, January
25, 1995, (60 FR 5044), which listed the agents
designated to accept service to process for governmental
entities in support garnishment actions. This document
also contains corrections to the final regulations which
were published on Monday,
July 10, 1995 (60 FR 35468), which listed the
designated officials responsible for facilitating the
service of legal process on members of the Uniformed
Services and other Federal employees in the Executive
Branch.
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- October 25, 1995: Retirement; Alternative Forms of Annuity
- The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing
interim regulations on alternative forms of annuity to
establish a standard for determining what constitutes a
critical medical condition to replace the standard that
the Merit Systems Protection Board determined was
invalid.
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- October 17, 1995: Separate Maintenance Allowance for Duty at Johnston Island
- The Office of Personnel Management is issuing proposed
regulations that would change the method for setting
separate maintenance allowance (SMA) rates for duty at
Johnston Island. Under the proposed method, SMA rates for
Johnston Island would be set at the same amount and
adjusted at the same time as SMA rates established by the
Department of State for employees who receive an SMA in
foreign areas.
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- October 16, 1995: Career and Career-Conditional Employment
- The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is adopting
policies on the career-conditional employment system--on
career tenure, reinstatement, transfer, and probationary
period requirements--previously contained in the former
Federal Personnel Manual. Except for several minor
adjustments, the previous policies remain intact.
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- October 16, 1995: Pay Under the General Schedule; Locality Pay Areas for 1997
- The Office of Personnel Management is issuing proposed
regulations to remove three metropolitan areas from the
"Rest of U.S.'' locality pay area and establish
three new locality pay areas in January 1997
corresponding to these metropolitan areas. The three
metropolitan areas affected by this proposed regulation
are the following: (1) Milwaukee-Racine, WI; (2)
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI; and (3) Pittsburgh, PA.
These proposed changes are based on a recommendation of
the Federal Salary Council.
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- October 4, 1995: Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance Program: Assignment of Life Insurance
- The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing
interim regulations to implement section 4 of Public Law
103-336, which amended the Federal Employees' Group Life
Insurance (FEGLI) law to provide that all Federal
employees and former employees could irrevocably assign
ownership of their life insurance coverage to someone
else. Previously, only judges could assign ownership of
their insurance.
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- October 4, 1995: Prevailing Rate Systems; Redefinition of Guaynabo-San Jaun, PR, Nonappropriated Fund Wage Area
- The Office of Personnel Management is issuing interim
regulations to redefine the Guaynabo-San Juan, Puerto
Rico, nonappropriated fund Federal Wage System wage area
by adding Salinas Municipality as an area of application
for pay-setting purposes. No employee's wage rate will be
reduced as a result of this change.
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- October 3, 1995: The National Partnership Council
- The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announces the
next meeting of the National Partnership Council (the
Council). Notice of this meeting is required under the
Federal Advisory Committee Act.
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- October 2, 1995: Agency Relationships With Organizations Representing Federal Employees and Other Organizations
- The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing
proposed regulations governing agency relations with
managerial, supervisory, professional, and other
organizations that are not labor organizations. These
regulations are being issued as part of the
implementation of the Federal Personnel Manual (FPM)
sunset. The regulations incorporate certain provisions
that existed in former FPM chapters 251 and 252.
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