[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 2]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR960.101]

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                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
          CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT (CONTINUED)
 
PART 960--FEDERAL EXECUTIVE BOARDS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 960.101  Definitions.

    For purposes of this part:
    (a) The term Director means the Director of the United States Office 
of Personnel Management.
    (b) The term Executive agency means a department, agency, or 
independent establishment in the Executive Branch.
    (c) The term metropolitan area means a geographic zone surrounding a 
major city, as defined and delimited from time to time by the Director.
    (d) The term principal area officer means, with respect to an 
Executive agency, the senior official of the Executive agency who is 
located in a metropolitan area and who has no superior official within 
that metropolitan area other than in the Regional Office of the 
Executive agency. Where an Executive agency maintains facilities of more 
than one bureau or other subdivision within the metropolitan area, and 
where the heads of those facilities are in separate chains of command 
within the Executive agency, then the Executive agency may have more 
than one principal area officer.
    (e) The term principal regional officer means, with respect to an 
Executive agency, the senior official in a Regional Office of the 
Executive agency.
    (f) The term special representative means, with respect to an 
Executive agency, an official who is not subject to the supervision of a 
principal regional officer or a principal area officer and who is 
specifically designated by the head of the Executive agency to serve as 
the personal representative of the head of the Executive agency.

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