February 2004
SUMMARY: 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) has submitted to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) a request for extension of a currently approved
information collection. Section 837.103 of Title 5, Code of Federal
Regulations, requires agencies to collect information from retirees who
become employed in Government positions. Agencies need to collect
timely information regarding the type and amount of annuity being
received so the correct rate of pay can be determined. Agencies provide
this information to OPM so a determination can be made whether the
reemployed retiree's annuity must be terminated.
For copies of this proposal, contact Mary Beth Smith-Toomey on
(202) 606-8358, FAX (202) 418-3251 or via email to mbtoomey@opm.gov.
Please include a mailing address with your request.
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SUMMARY: 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) has submitted to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) a request for review of a revised information
collection. RI 38-115, Representative Payee Survey, is used to collect
information about how the benefits paid to a representative payee have
been used or conserved for the benefit of the incompetent annuitant.
For copies of this proposal, contact Mary Beth Smith-Toomey on
(202) 606-8358, FAX (202) 418-3251 or via email to mbtoomey@opm.gov.
Please include a mailing address with your request.
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SUMMARY: This gives notice of OPM decisions granting authority to make
appointments under Schedules A, B and C in the excepted service as
required by 5 CFR 6.6 and 213.103.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Deborah Grade, Director, Washington
Services Branch, Center for Talent Services, Division for Human
Resources Products and Services. (202) 606-5027.
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SUMMARY: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing final
regulations implementing the Child Care Subsidy Program legislation.
OPM is issuing final regulations because Congress made permanent the
law authorizing agencies in the Executive Branch of the Federal
Government to assist lower income employees with their child care
costs, thus making child care more affordable for those employees.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bonnie Storm at (202) 606-1313; by fax
at (202) 606-2091; or by email at bstorm@opm.gov.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Office of
Personnel Management are issuing proposed regulations to establish a
new human resources management system within DHS, as authorized by the
Homeland Security Act of 2002. The affected subsystems include the
systems governing basic pay, classification, performance management,
labor relations, adverse actions (e.g., disciplinary actions), and
employee appeals. These changes are designed to ensure that DHS' human
resources management system aligns with the Department's critical
mission requirements and protects the civil service rights of its
employees.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: At OPM: Ronald P. Sanders, (202) 606-
9150; at DHS: Melissa Allen, (202) 692-4272.
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SUMMARY: 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) submitted to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) a request for a revised information collection. The
Application for 10-Point Veteran Preference (Standard Form 15) is used
by agencies, OPM examining offices, and agency appointing officials to
adjudicate individuals' claims for veterans' preference in accordance
with the Veterans' Preference Act of 1944. OPM will update the form to
eliminate references to the defunct Federal Personnel Manual and
Standard Form 171 (Application for Federal Employment), as well as to
reflect revisions to forms issued by the Department of Veterans Affairs
that document service-connected disabilities.
For copies of this proposal, contact Mary Beth Smith-Toomey on
(202) 606-8358, FAX (202) 418-3251 or email to mbtoomey@opm.gov.
Please be sure to include a mailing address with your request.
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SUMMARY: The Office of Personnel Management is issuing a final rule to
change the timing of annual wage surveys conducted by the Bureau of
Reclamation (BOR), Department of the Interior, to determine prevailing
rates of pay for supervisors of negotiated rate wage employees in the
Bureau's Mid-Pacific Region.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Madeline Gonzalez at (202) 606-2838;
FAX at (202) 606-4264; or email at pay-performance-policy@opm.gov.
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SUMMARY: 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) has submitted to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) a request for reclearance of a revised information
collection. The Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Open Season
Express Interactive Voice Response (IVR) System and the open season Web
site, Open Season Online, is used by retirees and survivors; it
collects information for changing FEHB enrollments, collecting
dependent and other insurance information for self and family
enrollments, requesting plan brochures, requesting a change of address,
requesting cancellation or suspension of FEHB benefits, asking to make
payment to the Office of Personnel Management when the FEHB payment is
greater than the monthly annuity amount, or requesting FEHB plan
accreditation and Customer Satisfaction Survey information.
For copies of this proposal, contact Mary Beth Smith-Toomey on
(202) 606-8358, FAX (202) 418-3251 or email to mbtoomey@opm.gov.
Please include your mailing address with your request.
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SUMMARY: 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) submitted to the Office of Management and
Budget a request for review of a revised information collection.
Standard Form 3112, CSRS/FERS Documentation in Support of Disability
Retirement Application, collects information from applicants for
disability retirement so that OPM can determine whether to approve a
disability retirement. The applicant will only complete Standard Forms
3112A and 3112C. Standards Forms: 3112B, 3112D, and 3112E will be
completed by the immediate supervisor and the employing agency of the
applicant.
For copies of this proposal, contact Mary Beth Smith-Toomey on
(202) 606-8358, Fax (202) 418-3251 or via email to mbtoomey@opm.gov.
Please include a mailing address with your request.
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SUMMARY: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing proposed
regulations on changes in health benefits enrollment for annuitants or
survivor annuitants when a carrier terminates participation in the
Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program. We are proposing to
amend the regulations to give OPM the authority to enroll annuitants in
whichever option of the BC/BS Service Benefit Plan it determines will
most closely approximate the terminated plan.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nataya Battle, (202) 606-1874, or e-
mail to nbattle@opm.gov.
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SUMMARY: This notice publishes the "2002 Nonforeign Area Cost-of-
Living Allowance Survey Report: Caribbean and Washington, DC, Areas."
The Federal Government uses the results of these surveys to set cost-
of-living allowance (COLA) rates for General Schedule, U.S. Postal
Service, and certain other Federal employees in Alaska, Hawaii, Guam
and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and
the U.S. Virgin Islands. This report contains the results of the COLA
surveys that the Office of Personnel Management conducted in Puerto
Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Washington, DC, area during the
summer of 2002.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Donald L. Paquin, (202) 606-2838; fax:
(202) 606-4264; or email: COLA@opm.gov.
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SUMMARY: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is proposing
technical changes in the methodology used to determine nonforeign area
cost-of-living allowances (COLAs). The changes would correct minor
drafting errors; provide consistent treatment of sale prices; allow the
use of non-housing price data collected on St. John, U.S. Virgin
Islands; correct and clarify the definition of COLA survey areas; and
allow a one-time prospective index adjustment for the Caribbean and
Alaska areas concurrent with the effective date of any COLA rate
changes resulting from the 2004 Pacific COLA surveys. OPM is proposing
these changes in large part as the result of experience gained in the
2002 COLA surveys and upon various recommendations of the Survey
Implementation Committee, the Technical Advisory Committee, and/or the
St. Thomas/St. John COLA Advisory Committee.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Donald L. Paquin, (202) 606-2838; fax:
(202) 606-4264; or email: COLA@opm.gov.
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SUMMARY: This gives notice of OPM decisions granting authority to make
appointments under Schedules A, B and C in the excepted service as
required by 5 CFR 6.6 and 213.103.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Deborah Grade, Director, Washington
Services Branch, Center for Talent Services, Division for Human
Resources Products and Services. (202) 606-5027.
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SUMMARY: The Office of Personnel Management is issuing a final rule to
redefine the North Dakota and Duluth, MN, Federal Wage System (FWS)
appropriated fund wage areas. This rule redefines Clearwater and
Mahnomen Counties and the White Earth Indian Reservation portion of
Becker County from the North Dakota FWS wage area to the Duluth FWS
wage area. These changes assign all blue-collar Federal employees
working in Indian Health Service facilities in northern Minnesota to
one FWS wage schedule.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mark A. Allen at (202) 606-2838, e-
mail maallen@opm.gov, or FAX: (202) 606-4264.
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