March 2005
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) has submitted to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) 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.
Approximately 250 forms are completed annually. We estimate it
takes approximately 60 minutes to assemble the needed documentation.
The annual estimated burden is 250 hours.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mary Beth Smith-Toomey on
(202) 606-8358, Fax (202) 418-3251 or via 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 issuing a proposed
regulation for the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC). This regulation
requires that each federation and unaffiliated organization applying to
participate in the CFC must, as a condition of participation, certify
that it is in compliance with all statutes, Executive orders, and
regulations restricting or prohibiting U.S. persons from engaging in
transactions and dealings with countries, entities, and individuals
subject to economic sanctions administered by the U.S. Department of
the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mark W. Lambert, Senior Compliance
Officer for the Office of CFC Operations, by telephone on (202) 606-
2564, by FAX on (202) 606-0902, or by e-mail at cfc@opm.gov.
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SUMMARY: As required by section 3132(b)(4) of title 5, United States
Code, this gives notice of all positions in the Senior Executive
Service (SES) that were career reserved during 2004.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Quasette Crowner, Center for
Leadership and Executive Resources Policy (202) 606-1579.
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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) has submitted to the Office of Management
and Budget a request for review of a revised information collection. RI
20-64, Letter Reply to Request for Information, is used by the Civil
Service Retirement System to provide information about the amount of
annuity payable after a survivor reduction, to explain the annuity
reductions required to pay for the survivor benefit, and to give the
beginning rate of survivor annuity. RI 20-64A, Former Spouse Survivor
Annuity Election, is used by the Civil Service Retirement System to
obtain a survivor benefits election from annuitants who are eligible to
elect to provide survivor benefits for a former spouse. RI 20-64B,
Information on Electing a Survivor Annuity for Your Former Spouse, is a
pamphlet that provides important information to retirees under the
Civil Service Retirement System who want to provide a survivor annuity
for a former spouse.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mary Beth Smith-Toomey on
(202) 606-8358, FAX (202) 418-3251 or via E-mail to mbtoomey@opm.gov.
Please include a mailing address with your request.
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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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Quasette Crowner, Chief, Executive
Resources Group, Center for Leadership and Executive Resources Policy,
Division for Strategic Human Resources Policy, 202-606-8046.
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SUMMARY: The Office of Personnel Management is issuing interim
regulations to implement a provision of the Federal Workforce
Flexibility Act of 2004 which provides a higher annual leave accrual
rate of 1 day (8 hours) per biweekly pay period for members of the
Senior Executive Service, employees in senior-level and scientific or
professional positions, and other employees covered by equivalent pay
systems.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sharon Dobson by telephone at (202)
606-2858; by fax at (202) 606-0824; or by e-mail at pay-performance-
policy@opm.gov.
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SUMMARY: OPM is publishing notice of its computer matching program with
the Social Security Administration (SSA) to meet the reporting
requirements of Pub. L. 100-503. The purpose of this match is for SSA
to establish the conditions under which the SSA agrees to disclose tax
return information to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). The SSA
records will be used in a matching program in which OPM will match
SSA's tax return records with OPM's records on disability retirees
under age 60, disabled adult child survivors, certain retirees in
receipt of a supplemental benefit under the Federal Employees
Retirement System (FERS), and certain annuitants receiving a
discontinued service retirement benefit under the Civil Service
Retirement System (CSRS).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: James Sparrow, (202) 606-1803.
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SUMMARY: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing proposed
regulations to allow certain job-related experience acquired in a
structured work-study program to be credited under the Student Career
Experience Program. The proposed change would permit agencies to credit
a student's job-related work-study experience toward the minimum
requirement for conversion to a permanent appointment under the
Program.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Pam Galemore, 202-606-0960, FAX: 202-
606-2329, TDD: (202) 606-0023, or e-mail: pamela.galemore@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) has submitted to the Office of Management
and Budget a request for review of a revised information collection.
Information and Instructions on Your Reconsideration Rights, RI 38-47,
outlines the procedures required to request reconsideration of an
initial OPM decision about Civil Service or Federal Employees
retirement, Federal or Retired Federal Employees Health Benefits
requests to enroll or change enrollment, or Federal Employees' Group
Life Insurance coverage. This form lists the procedures and time
periods required for requesting reconsideration.
Approximately 3,100 annuitants and survivors request
reconsideration annually. We estimate it takes approximately 45 minutes
to apply. The annual burden is 2,325 hours.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mary Beth Smith-Toomey on
(202) 606-8358, FAX (202) 418-3251 or via 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) has submitted to the Office of Management
and Budget a request for review of an existing information collection.
The regulations describe how former spouses give us written notice of a
court order requiring us to pay benefits to the former spouse. Specific
information is needed before OPM can make court-ordered benefit
payments.
Approximately 19,000 former spouses apply for benefits based on
court orders annually. We estimated it takes approximately 30 minutes
to collect the information. The annual burden is 9,500 hours.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mary Beth Smith-Toomey on
(202) 606-8358, FAX (202) 418-3251 or via 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 has submitted to the Office of Management and
Budget a request for a revised information collection. Online OPM Form
1417, Combined Federal Campaign Results Form, is used to collect
information from the 320 local CFC's around the country to verify
campaign results. Revisions to the form clarify OPM's request for
budgeted campaign costs and provide the ability to create a printer
friendly copy of the report.
We estimate 320 Online OPM Forms 1417 are completed annually. Each
form takes approximately 20 minutes to complete. The annual estimated
burden is 107 hours.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mary Beth Smith-Toomey on
(202) 606-8358, FAX (202) 418-3251 or via 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) will submit to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) a request for review of a revised 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. SF 2800A, Documentation and Elections in Support of
Application for Death Benefits When Deceased Was an Employee at the
Time of Death, is needed for deaths in service only so that survivors
can make the needed elections regarding military service.
Comments are particularly invited on: Whether this collection of
information is necessary for the proper performance of functions of the
Office of Personnel Management, and whether it will have practical
utility; whether our estimate of the public burden of this collection
of information is accurate, and based on valid assumptions and
methodology; and ways in which we can minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who are to respond, through the use
of appropriate technological collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mary Beth Smith-Toomey on
(202) 606-8358, FAX (202) 418-3251 or via 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), this notice announces that the Office of Personnel
Management has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a
request for revision of an expiring information collection (Mail
Reinterview Form OFI 10; OMB No. 3206-0106). OPM sends the OFI 10
questionnaire to a random sampling of record and personal sources
contacted during background investigations when investigators have
performed fieldwork. The OFI 10 is used as a quality control instrument
designed to ensure the accuracy and integrity of the investigative
product, as it inquires of the sources about the investigative
procedure employed by the investigator, the investigator's
professionalism, and the information discussed and reported.
It is estimated that 9,600 OFI 10 forms are sent to individual
sources annually. Of those, it is estimated that 5,600 individuals
respond.
We anticipate sending and receiving a similar number of OFI 10
forms in the years ahead. Each form takes approximately six minutes to
complete. The estimated annual burden is 560 hours.
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 be sure to include a mailing address with your request.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mary Beth Smith-Toomey on
(202) 606-8358, Fax (202) 418-3251 or e-mail to mbtoomey@opm.gov.
Please be sure to include a mailing address with your request.
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