Office of Personnel Management April 2024 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Guidance Procedures
Document Number: 2024-09192
Type: Rule
Date: 2024-04-30
Agency: Office of Personnel Management
This final rule removes existing regulations concerning procedures applicable to the issuance of OPM's guidance documents. OPM is taking this action because President Biden revoked the authority for the regulations in an Executive order (E.O.) on January 20, 2021. Furthermore, OPM finds that the current procedures are impracticable and lack the flexibility needed for issuing guidance internally.
Submission for Review: 3206-0194, Annuity Supplement Earnings Report, RI 92-22
Document Number: 2024-09282
Type: Notice
Date: 2024-04-30
Agency: Office of Personnel Management
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Retirement Services, offers the general public and other Federal agencies the opportunity to comment on the review of an expiring information collection request (ICR) with change: Annuity Supplement Earnings Report, RI 92-22.
Submission for Review: 3206-0215, Verification of Full-Time School Attendance, RI 25-49
Document Number: 2024-09281
Type: Notice
Date: 2024-04-30
Agency: Office of Personnel Management
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Retirement Services, offers the general public and other Federal agencies the opportunity to comment on the review of an expiring information collection request (ICR) without change: Verification of Full-Time School Attendance, RI 25-49.
Submission for Review: 3206-0228, CSRS/FERS Documentation in Support of Disability Retirement Application, Standard Form 3112
Document Number: 2024-09280
Type: Notice
Date: 2024-04-30
Agency: Office of Personnel Management
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Retirement Services, offers the general public and other Federal agencies the opportunity to comment on an expiring information collection request (ICR): CSRS/FERS Documentation in Support of Disability Retirement Application, Standard Form 3112.
Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee Virtual Public Meeting
Document Number: 2024-09162
Type: Notice
Date: 2024-04-29
Agency: Office of Personnel Management
According to the provisions of section 10 of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, notice is hereby given that a virtual meeting of the Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee will be held on Thursday, May 16, 2024. There will be no in-person gathering for this meeting.
Submission for Review: Renewal of an Existing Information Collection, USAJOBS Resume Builder, Application Profile, and USAJOBS Career Explorer, OMB Control No. 3206-0219
Document Number: 2024-08041
Type: Notice
Date: 2024-04-16
Agency: Office of Personnel Management
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) offers the general public and other Federal agencies the opportunity to comment on revisions to a currently approved information collection request (ICR): OMB Control No. 3206-0219, USAJOBS Resume Builder, Application Profile, and Career Explorer.
Social Security Number Fraud Prevention Act Requirements
Document Number: 2024-07750
Type: Rule
Date: 2024-04-12
Agency: Office of Personnel Management
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is publishing this direct final rule to implement the requirements of the Social Security Number Fraud Prevention Act of 2017 (Act). In accordance with the Act, OPM is amending its privacy procedures to prohibit the inclusion of Social Security numbers (SSNs) on any document sent through the mail unless the Director of OPM deems it necessary. This rule also establishes requirements for safeguarding SSNs sent through the mail by partially redacting SSNs where feasible and prohibiting the display of SSNs on the outside of any package or envelope sent by mail.
Pathways Programs
Document Number: 2024-06810
Type: Rule
Date: 2024-04-12
Agency: Office of Personnel Management
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing this final rule to align the Pathways Programs with the Federal Government's needs for recruiting and hiring interns and recent graduates. Robust Pathways Programs, with appropriate safeguards to promote their use as a supplement to, and not a substitute for, the competitive hiring process, are essential to boosting the Federal Government's ability to recruit and retain early career talent.
Prevailing Rate Systems; Abolishment of Frederick, Maryland, as a Nonappropriated Fund Federal Wage System Wage Area
Document Number: 2024-07530
Type: Proposed Rule
Date: 2024-04-10
Agency: Office of Personnel Management
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is proposing a rule to abolish the Frederick, Maryland, nonappropriated fund (NAF) Federal Wage System (FWS) wage area and define Frederick County, MD, to the Anne Arundel, MD, NAF FWS wage area, and Berkeley County, West Virginia, to the Washington, DC, NAF FWS wage area. These changes are necessary because NAF FWS employment in the survey area is now below the minimum criterion of 26 wage employees to maintain a wage area, and the local activities no longer have the capability to conduct local wage surveys.
Upholding Civil Service Protections and Merit System Principles
Document Number: 2024-06815
Type: Rule
Date: 2024-04-09
Agency: Office of Personnel Management
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing final regulations to reinforce and clarify longstanding civil service protections and merit system principles, codified in law, as they relate to the involuntary movement of Federal employees and positions from the competitive service to the excepted service, or from one excepted service schedule to another. In this final rule, OPM adopts many of the provisions from the proposed rule with some modifications and clarifications based on comments received from the public. The final regulations will better align OPM regulations with relevant statutory text, congressional intent, legislative history, legal precedent, and OPM's longstanding practice.
Submission for Review: New Information Collection, Research Agreement Application for the Use of OPM Record-Level Data, OMB Control No. 3206-NEW
Document Number: 2024-06986
Type: Notice
Date: 2024-04-03
Agency: Office of Personnel Management
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) offers the general public and other Federal agencies the opportunity to comment on a new information collection(ICR) 3206-NEW, titled "Research Agreements for the Use of OPM Record-Level Data."
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