U. S. Office of Personnel Management

FEDERAL REGISTER DOCUMENTS

March 1996


March 22, 1996: Voting Rights Program

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is establishing a new office for filing applications or complaints under the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended. This designation is necessary to enforce the voting guarantees of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments to the Constitution. This amendment establishes Alameda County, California, as a new office for filing applications or complaints. [Federal Register Regulation:  PDF or text]

March 21, 1996: Agency Funding for Federal Employment Information

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing final regulations requiring each agency to pay a fee for its share of the cost of providing employment information through OPM to Federal employees and the public. The regulations implement a permanent statutory provision of Public Law 104-52, which authorizes OPM to charge fees to agencies to pay the cost of providing Federal employment information and related services. [Federal Register Regulation:  PDF or text]
 
March 18, 1996: Prevailing Rate Systems; Redefinition of Certain Federal Wage System Wage Areas
 
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing a final rule to redefine several Federal Wage System (FWS) wage areas for pay-setting purposes. OPM is engaged in an ongoing project to review the geographic definitions of selected FWS wage areas. [Federal Register Regulation:  PDF or text]

March 8, 1996: Career and Career-Conditional Employment, Noncompetitive Appointment of Certain Former Overseas Employees

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is revising its regulations implementing Executive Order 12721 under which Federal agencies can noncompetitively appoint certain former overseas employees who as family members accompanied their sponsors on official assignment  overseas. These regulations add a new condition justifying the waiver of a portion of the overseas service requirement. The regulations also remove duplication and add clarifying information. [Federal Register Regulation:  PDF or text]

 

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