April 30, 1996
                                   DO-96-024

MEMORANDUM

TO:       Designated Agency Ethics Officials

FROM:     Stephen D. Potts
          Director

SUBJECT:  Organizational Changes Within the Office of Government           
          Ethics (OGE)


     To put increased emphasis on our services to Federal agency
ethics programs, I recently made several changes to OGE's
organizational structure.  These changes will enable our desk
officers and other staff to put more of their experience into OGE's
educational projects and expand the range of products that we  make
available to you.  

     The Office of Program Assistance and Review has been renamed
the Office of Agency Programs and will direct these efforts.  This
office will provide overall direction to a new Education and
Program Services Division, a new Financial Disclosure Division, and
to the current Program Review Division.  Jack Covaleski will direct
this office as the Associate Director for Agency Programs.  This
office reflects OGE's continuing commitment to agency ethics
programs and the staff administering those programs. 

     The former Office of Education and the former Program
Assistance Division have been merged into the new Education and
Program Services Division.  This division will focus on increasing
desk officer services, developing a curriculum of ethics training
courses,  producing educational materials in a variety of formats,
and conducting surveys on ethics issues.  This division will
continue to review the PAS financial disclosure statements and send
them into the Financial Disclosure Division for final approval. 
OGE's desk officers will retain responsibility for providing
services to their current agencies.   

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Designated Agency Ethics Officials
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     Barbara Mullen-Roth will provide overall direction for this
newly merged division, retaining her position as Associate Director
for Education and taking on the additional responsibility of
becoming Chief of Program Services.  Barbara will be supported by
three Project Managers.  Mike Korwin will be the Project Manager
for desk officer services.  Cecilia Owens will be the Project
Manager for ethics training course development.  Don Williams will
be the Project Manager for Surveys and Special Studies. Various
other staff will manage special projects to develop educational
materials.

     The new Financial Disclosure Division will put increased
emphasis on our annual and termination financial disclosure systems
for Presidential appointees confirmed by the Senate.  This division
will manage administrative activities for these disclosure systems
that were handled by the Program Assistance Division.  This
division also will manage the Presidential appointee ethics
agreement system, which will be revised in the near future. Tom
Zorn will become Chief of the Financial Disclosure Division.  

     The structure of the Program Review Division will remain the
same and will continue to be managed by Ed Pratt.  We have received
favorable feedback from many of you on our shorter report format
instituted last year to summarize the results of our program
reviews.  

     As OGE does its strategic planning for the future, we believe
these organizational changes will result in better services to you. 
Our added emphasis on surveys and special studies will give us more
information on what you need from us, and what employees and
managers outside of the ethics program need.  We will also open
more avenues of communication with you.  However, we need your
ideas and your support.  If you have any questions or suggestions,
please call Jack Covaleski at 202-523-5757, extension 1120.