October 31, 1994
DO-94-036
MEMORANDUM
TO: Designated Agency Ethics Officials
FROM: Stephen D. Potts
Director
SUBJECT: Annual Agency Ethics Program Questionnaire
Please complete and return the attached ethics program
questionnaire to the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) by
February 1, 1995. Your response to this questionnaire will
constitute your annual report for 1994 as required by section
402(e)(1) of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, as amended.
This year you have the option of submitting the questionnaire
electronically via diskette. For further details, please contact
Jennifer Kang in OGE's Office of Education at (202) 523-5757,
extension 1111.
Please note, the length and the content of the 1994
questionnaire differ somewhat from the previous year. Most
notably, OGE shortened five sections:
. AGENCY AUTHORITY;
. ETHICS OPINIONS, ADVICE, AND COUNSELING;
. PUBLIC FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE;
. CONFIDENTIAL FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE; and
. WAIVERS.
Conversely, because ethics officials are interested in more
economical and efficient methods by which other agencies manage
their ethics programs, OGE added two new questions under the
RESOURCES section.
In light of agency comments, OGE decided not to make the
revisions to the 1994 questionnaire cited in our October 18, 1993
memorandum.
In addition to providing the 1994 questionnaire, this
memorandum serves as an advance notice of changes to the 1995
questionnaire. In the 1995 questionnaire, we expect to revise the
EDUCATION AND TRAINING section by including these questions:
. Please provide the number of covered employees
who received annual ethics training:
Number
a. in person.................. ______
b. by telecommunications...... ______
c. by computer-based methods.. ______
d. by recorded means.......... ______
e. by other means (specify)... _____
. How many covered regular employees received
annual ethics training by means of written
materials under the exception at 5 C.F.R.
§ 2638.704(d)(2)(i)? ______
. How many covered special Government employees
received annual ethics training by means of
written materials under the exception at
5 C.F.R. § 2638.704(d)(2)(ii)? ______
. How many covered officers in the uniformed
services who serve on active duty for 30 or
fewer consecutive days received annual ethics
training by means of written materials under
the exception at 5 C.F.R.
§ 2638.704(d)(2)(iii)? ______
Agencies should take note of these upcoming changes and, if
necessary, modify their data collection methods for calendar year
1995.
If you should have any questions about the questionnaire,
please contact Jennifer Kang or Audrey Duchesne at (202) 523-5757,
extension 1111 or 1136, respectively. Remember, the questionnaire
covers the period January 1, 1994 through December 31, 1994 and
failure to file on or before February 1, 1995, may be cause for OGE
to invoke its corrective action authority (5 C.F.R. § 2638.602(b)).
Please note that the information contained in the questionnaire is
subject to the Freedom of Information Act. All completed
questionnaires should be submitted directly to Jennifer Kang.
(TEBBS Note: A representation of the questionnaire (attachment) is located
in the MISCELLANOUS category of the FILES section - as a Word Perfect file.)