October 31, 1997
DO-07-033
MEMORANDUM
TO: Designated Agency Ethics Officials
FROM: Stephen D. Potts, Director
SUBJECT: 1997 Agency Ethics Program Questionnaire
1997 Questionnaire Due
February 1, 1998
Please complete and return the attached 1997 Agency Ethics
Program Questionnaire to the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) no
later than February 1, 1998. Your response to this questionnaire
will constitute your annual report as required by section 402(e)(1)
of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978, as amended.
The questionnaire covers the period January 1, 1997 through
December 31, 1997. Failure to file on or before February 1, 1998,
may be cause for OGE to invoke its corrective action authority
(5 C.F.R. § 2638.602(b)). Please note the information contained in
the questionnaire is subject to the Freedom of Information Act.
You may submit your responses to this questionnaire
electronically, via diskette. Please contact Sandy McKinzy at
202-208-8000, extension 1212, for an electronic version of the
questionnaire.
This Year's Education and Training
Statistics Remain the Same Despite
Amendments to the Training Regulation
As you know, the interim rule amendments to the training
regulation change how annual training is to be presented to certain
"covered" employees. It also changes some of the exceptions. (See
March 20,1997, DAEOgram Publication of Interim Rule Amendments to
the Training Regulation, DO-97-013.) Because almost all the
changes became effective halfway through the calendar year
(June 10, 1997), OGE has decided not to change reporting
requirements for the 1997 questionnaire.
Please report the total number of employees required to
receive annual ethics training using the statistics from your
calendar year 1997 training plan. In reporting the number of
employees who actually received training, please include those
employees who received either a verbal or written ethics briefing
on or after June 10, 1997.
# Required to Receive: Total number from calendar year 1997
training plan
# Who Actually Received: Total number who received training
including those who received a verbal or written briefing on or
after June 10, 1997
If the number of employees required to receive training is not
the same as the number who actually received training because of
the interim rule amendments, please mark the "other" category in
the second part of question 4 and specify "interim rule."
Advance Notice of Changes
to 1998 Questionnaire
Revisions to the 1998 questionnaire are enclosed as
Attachment II. A new question 3 will be replacing current
questions 3 through 7. These revisions reflect the changes made by
the interim rule amendments to the training regulation. Agencies
should take note of these upcoming changes and, if necessary,
modify their data collection methods for calendar year 1998.
Again, if you would like to obtain an electronic version of
the 1997 questionnaire or have any questions about the
questionnaire itself, please contact Sandy McKinzy at 202-208-8000,
extension 1212.
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