U.S. Office of Personnel Management - Ensuring the Federal Government has an effective civilian workforce

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request for a revised information collection. SF 3106, Application for Refund of Retirement Deductions/Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS), is used by former Federal employees under FERS, to apply for a refund of retirement deductions withheld during Federal employment, plus any interest provided by law.
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: Donna G. Lease, Team Leader, Desktop Publishing and Printing Team, Budget and Administrative Services Division, (202) 606-0623.
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The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget a request for reclearance of an information collection. SF 2800, Application for Death Benefits Under the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS), is needed to collect information so that OPM can pay death benefits to the survivors of Federal employees and annuitants.
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: Donna G. Lease, Team Leader, Desktop Publishing and Printing Team, Budget and Administrative Services Division, (202) 606-0623.
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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 Medicare.
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: Donna G. Lease, Team Leader, Desktop Publishing and Printing Team, Budget and Administrative Services Division, (202) 606-0623.
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The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) intends to submit to the Office of Management and Budget a request for review of an expiring information collection. RI 34-1, Financial Resources Questionnaire, collects detailed financial information for use by OPM to determine whether to agree to a waiver, compromise, or adjustment of the collection of erroneous payments from the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund.
FOR INFORMATION REGARDING ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATION--CONTACT: Donna G. Lease, Team Leader, Desktop Publishing and Printing Team, Budget and Administrative Services Division, (202) 606-0623.
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According to the provisions of section 10 of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), notice is hereby given that meetings of the Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee will be held on:

Thursday, February 28, 2002
Thursday, March 14, 2002
Thursday, March 28, 2002
Thursday, April 11, 2002
Thursday, April 25, 2002
Thursday, May 9, 2002
Thursday, May 23, 2002
Thursday, June 6, 2002
Thursday, June 27, 2002

As required by the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, this gives notice of all positions in the Senior Executive Service (SES) that were career reserved during 2001.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nancy Gauthier, Office of Executive Resources Management, (202) 606-1125.
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This gives notice of positions placed under Schedule A, B, and C in the excepted service, as required by Civil Service Rule VI, Exceptions from the Competitive Service.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Pam Shivery, Director, Washington Service Center, Employment Service (202) 606-1015.
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The Office of Personnel Management ("OPM") is issuing an interim regulation to allow agencies to decide how candidates are referred for competitive appointment when agencies fill multiple vacancies simultaneously. We are codifying a long-standing practice (based on 5 U.S.C. 3301 and 3302) of providing agencies with the option of either certifying a candidate for only one vacancy at a time, or certifying a candidate simultaneously for all vacancies for which that candidate expresses an interest, is eligible, and is within reach.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Suzy M. Barker, Director, Examination and Qualifications Policy Division, on (202) 606-0830, or FAX (202) 606-0390.
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The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing final regulations to implement provisions of law affecting the priority consideration program for certain displaced employees of the District of Columbia Department of Corrections seeking Federal positions. These regulations respond to comments received on the interim regulations OPM published on January 22, 2001.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jacqueline Yeatman on (202) 606-0960, FAX (202) 606-2329, TDD (202) 606-0023 or by email at jryeatma@opm.gov.
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The Office of Personnel Management is issuing interim regulations concerning the rules governing payment of administratively uncontrollable overtime (AUO) pay. AUO is a form of premium pay paid to employees in positions in which the hours of duty cannot be controlled administratively and which require substantial amounts of irregular or occasional overtime work. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kevin Kitchelt, (202) 606-2858; FAX: (202) 606-0824; email: payleave@opm.gov.
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This gives notice of positions placed or revoked under Schedule C in the excepted service, as required by Civil Service Rule VI, Exceptions from the Competitive Service.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Pam Shivery, Director, Washington Service Center, Employment Service (202) 606-1015.
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The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing final placement assistance and reduction in force regulations to replace references to the repealed Job Training Partnership Act with references to the Workforce Investment Act of 1998.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Pam Galemore, 202-606-0960, FAX 202-606-2329, TDD (202) 606-0023, or e-mail at pjgalemo@opm.gov.
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The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing a final regulation that clarifies a released employee's potential right to "Retreat" to another position in a reduction in force. This regulation states that an agency determines the potential grade range of a released employee's retreat right solely upon the position held by the employee on the effective date of the reduction in force rather than the grade range of the position to which the employee may have a right to retreat.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Thomas A. Glennon, FAX 202-606-2329.
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The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing final regulations making the current career transition assistance programs permanent to help Federal employees displaced from their jobs by downsizing. These regulations adopt interim regulations published June 4, 2001, as final.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jacqueline Yeatman, (202) 606-0960, FAX (202) 606-2329, or by email at: jryeatma@opm.gov.
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