August 2004
SUMMARY: The Federal Salary Council will meet at the time and location
shown below. The Council is an advisory body composed of
representatives of Federal employee organizations and experts in the
fields of labor relations and pay policy. The Council makes
recommendations to the President's Pay Agent (the Secretary of Labor
and the Directors of the Office of Management and Budget and the Office
of Personnel Management) about the locality pay program for General
Schedule employees under section 5304 of title 5, United States Code.
The Council's recommendations cover the establishment or modification
of locality pay areas, the coverage of salary surveys, the process of
comparing Federal and non-Federal rates of pay, and the level of
comparability payments that should be paid.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Donald J. Winstead, Deputy Associate
Director for Pay and Performance Policy, Office of Personnel
Management, 1900 E Street NW., Room 7H31, Washington, DC 20415-8200.
Phone (202) 606-2838; FAX (202) 606-4264; or e-mail at
pay-performance-policy@opm.gov.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Public
Law 104-13, May 22, 1995), this notice announces that the U.S. Office
of Personnel Management (OPM) intends to submit to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) a request for review of a revised
information collection. Procedures for Submitting Compensation and
Leave Claims, OPM 1673, is used to collect information from current and
former Federal employees who are submitting a claim for compensation
and/or leave. OPM needs this information in order to adjudicate the
claim.
For copies of this proposal, contact Mary Beth Smith-Toomey on
(202) 606-8358, FAX (202) 418-3251, or e-mail to mbtoomey@opm.gov.
Please include a mailing address with your request.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Public
Law 104-13, May 22, 1995), this notice announces that the Office of
Personnel Management (OPM) intends to submit to the Office of
Management and Budget a request for review of a revised information
collection. RI 25-37, Evidence to Prove Dependency of a Child, is
designed to collect sufficient information for OPM to determine whether
the surviving child of a deceased federal employee is eligible to
receive benefits as a dependent child.
For copies of this proposal, contact Mary Beth Smith-Toomey on
(202) 606-8358, FAX (202) 418-3251, or e-mail to mbtoomey@opm.gov.
Please include a mailing address with your request.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub.
L. 104-13, May 22, 1995), this notice announces that the Office of
Personnel Management (OPM) intends to submit to the Office of
Management and Budget a request for review of a revised information
collection. RI 38-45, We Need the Social Security Number of the Person
Named Below, is used by the Civil Service Retirement System and the
Federal Employees' Retirement System to identify the records of
individuals with similar or the same names. It is also needed to report
payments to the Internal Revenue Service.
For copies of this proposal, contact Mary Beth Smith-Toomey on
(202) 606-8358, FAX (202) 418-3251, or e-mail to mbtoomey@opm.gov.
Please include a mailing address with your request.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Public
Law 104-13, May 22, 1995), this notice announces that the Office of
Personnel Management (OPM) intends to submit to the Office of
Management and Budget a request for review of a revised information
collection. RI 78-11, Medicare Part B Certification, collects
information from annuitants, their spouses, and survivor annuitants to
determine their eligibility under the Retired Federal Employees Health
Benefits Program for a Government contribution toward the cost of Part
B of Medicare.
For copies of this proposal, contact Mary Beth Smith-Toomey on
(202) 606-8358, FAX (202) 418-3251, or e-mail to mbtoomey@opm.gov.
Please include a mailing address with your request.
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SUMMARY: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is providing notice
of adjusted present value factors applicable to retirees who elect to
provide survivor annuity benefits to a spouse based on post-retirement
marriage and to retiring employees who elect the alternative form of
annuity, owe certain redeposits based on refunds of contributions for
service before October 1, 1990, or elect to credit certain service with
nonappropriated fund instrumentalities. This notice is necessary to
conform the present value factors to changes in economic assumptions
and demographic factors adopted by the Board of Actuaries of the Civil
Service Retirement System.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patrick Jennings, (202) 606-0299.
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SUMMARY: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is providing notice
of adjusted present value factors applicable to retirees who elect to
provide survivor annuity benefits to a spouse based on post-retirement
marriage, and to retiring employees who elect the alternative form of
annuity or elect to credit certain service with nonappropriated fund
instrumentalities. This notice is necessary to conform the present
value factors to changes in economic assumptions and demographic
factors adopted by the Board of Actuaries of the Civil Service
Retirement System.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patrick Jennings, (202) 606-0299.
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SUMMARY: This gives notice of OPM decisions granting authority to make
appointments under Schedules A, B and C in the excepted service as
required by 5 CFR 6.6 and 213.103(b).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Cathy Penn, Center for Leadership
and Executive Resources Policy, Division for Strategic Human Resources
Policy, 202-606-2671.
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SUMMARY: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) published in the
Federal Register of June 15, 2004, a document providing guidance in the
requirements for submission of requests for voluntary early retirement
authority, the qualifications for voluntary early retirement, etc.
Inadvertently, identical typographical errors occurred in two places
within the document. This document corrects the errors.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Charles W. Gray at 202-606-0960, FAX
at 202-606-2329, TTY at 202-418-3134, or e-mail at cwgray@opm.gov.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub.
L. 104-13, May 22, 1995), this notice announces that the Office of
Personnel Management (OPM) submitted a request to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for clearance and review of a revision of a
currently approved collection for the OPM Form 1300, Presidential
Management Fellows Program Online Application and Resume Builder.
Approval of this form is necessary to facilitate the timely nomination,
selection and placement of Presidential Management Fellows finalists in
Federal agencies.
For copies of this proposal, contact Mary Beth Smith-Toomey at
(202) 606-8358, fax (202) 418-3251 or e-mail to mbtoomey@opm.gov.
Please include your complete mailing address with your request.
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SUMMARY: The Office of Personnel Management is issuing interim
regulations to provide that a locality rate of pay is considered basic
pay for the purpose of computing danger pay allowances and post
differentials for certain employees temporarily assigned to work in
foreign areas for which the Department of State has established danger
pay allowances. These regulations will aid agencies in responding to
emergency, mission-critical staffing needs in support of the Global War
on Terrorism and other international activities in imminently dangerous
overseas work locations by increasing the danger pay allowance and post
differential benefits for employees temporarily assigned to such
locations.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeanne Jacobson, (202) 606-2858; FAX:
(202) 606-0824; or e-mail: pay-performance-policy@opm.gov.
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