[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 2]
[Revised as of January 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR890.1301]

[Page 514]
 
                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
          CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT (CONTINUED)
 
PART 890_FEDERAL EMPLOYEES HEALTH BENEFITS PROGRAM--Table of Contents
 
   Subpart M_Department of Defense Federal Employees Health Benefits 
                      Program Demonstration Project
 
Sec. 890.1301  Purpose.

    Source: 65 FR 35260, June 2, 2000, unless otherwise noted.


    The purpose of this subpart is to implement section 721 of the 
National Defense Authorization Act for 1999, Public Law 105-261. This 
section amended chapter 55 of title 10, United States Code, and chapter 
89 of title 5, United States Code, to establish a demonstration project 
under which certain Medicare and other eligible Department of Defense 
(DoD) beneficiaries can enroll in health benefit plans offered under the 
Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program in certain geographic 
areas. The legislation was signed into law on October 17, 1998. The 
demonstration project will run for a period of three years. The 
legislation requires the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and DoD to 
jointly produce and submit two reports to Congress designed to assess 
the viability of expanding access to the FEHB Program to certain 
Medicare and other eligible DoD beneficiaries permanently. OPM is 
authorizing certain differences from regular FEHB Program practices in 
order to ensure the successful implementation of the demonstration 
project. This regulation authorizes those differences.