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method. Regardless of the staffing
method chosen, the state or local agency
must certify that it is using a merit
personnel system that meets the
standards outlined in 5 CFR 900.603.
Office of Personnel Management.
Alexys Stanley,
Regulatory Affairs Analyst.
[FR Doc. 2019–07312 Filed 4–18–19; 8:45 am]
OFFICE OF PERSONNEL
MANAGEMENT
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5 CFR Part 900
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Certifying the Use of a Merit Personnel
System as Required by the
Intergovernmental Personnel Act of
1970
Agricultural Marketing Service
Office of Personnel
Management (OPM).
ACTION: Guidance.
AGENCY:
OPM wishes to publicly
respond to inquiries regarding the
available range of staffing options for
federally-funded and state-administered
low-income programs that are required
to comply with the Intergovernmental
Personnel Act of 1970 (IPA) and its
implementing regulations.
DATES: April 19, 2019.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
questions, please contact Kim Holden,
Employee Services, Talent Acquisition
and Workforce Shaping at employ@
opm.gov or 202–606–8097.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant
to 5 CFR 900.604(b)(3), OPM is tasked
with responding to requests for
guidance regarding compliance with the
Intergovernmental Personnel Act of
1970 (IPA) and its implementing
regulations. When a federally-funded
program requires state and local
agencies to establish a merit personnel
system in order to receive funds, the
IPA and the regulations in 5 Code of
Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 900
Subpart F are applicable. These
regulations establish the standards that
must be included in a merit personnel
system when it is certified by a state or
local agency. The IPA and the
regulations do not prescribe the use of
a particular staffing method such as
utilizing state employees or contract
employees. In the absence of any other
statutory or regulatory requirement to
use a specific staffing method, the state
or local agency has the discretion to
determine the most appropriate staffing
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United States Standards for Grades of
Processed Vegetables
SUMMARY:
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Agricultural Marketing Service,
USDA.
ACTION: Final notice.
AGENCY:
The Agricultural Marketing
Service (AMS) of the Department of
Agriculture (USDA) is revising the U.S.
Standards for Grades of Canned Lima
Beans, U.S. Standards for Grades of
Canned Mushrooms, U.S. Standards for
Grades of Pickles, and U.S. Standards
for Grades of Green Olives. AMS is
replacing the term ‘‘midget’’ with
‘‘petite’’ in the canned lima bean,
canned mushroom, and pickle
standards, and removing ‘‘midget’’
completely from the green olive
standards as there is an alternative term.
AMS is also replacing the two-term
grading system (dual nomenclature)
with a single term to describe each
quality level in the canned lima bean,
canned mushroom, and green olive
standards. Editorial changes are also
being made to the grade standards that
conform to recent changes made in
other grade standards.
DATES: Effective May 20, 2019.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Lindsay H. Mitchell, USDA, Specialty
Crops Inspection Division, 100
Riverside Parkway, Suite 101,
Fredericksburg, VA 22406, by phone
(540) 361–1120; fax (540) 361–1199; or,
email lindsay.mitchell@ams.usda.gov.
Copies of the revised U.S. Standards for
Grades of Canned Lima Beans, U.S.
Standards for Grades of Canned
Mushrooms, U.S. Standards for Grades
SUMMARY:
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of Pickles, and U.S. Standards for
Grades of Green Olives are available at
www.ams.usda.gov/grades-standards/
vegetables.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section
203(c) of the Agricultural Marketing Act
of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1621–1627), as
amended, directs and authorizes the
Secretary of Agriculture ‘‘to develop and
improve standards of quality, condition,
quantity, grade, and packaging, and
recommend and demonstrate such
standards in order to encourage
uniformity and consistency in
commercial practices.’’
AMS is committed to carrying out this
authority in a manner that facilitates the
marketing of agricultural commodities
and makes copies of official standards
available upon request. The U.S.
Standards for Grades of Fruits and
Vegetables that no longer appear in the
Code of Federal Regulations are
maintained by AMS at: https://
www.ams.usda.gov/grades-standards.
AMS is proposing revisions to these
U.S. Standards for Grades using the
procedures that appear in part 36 of
Title 7 of the Code of Federal
Regulations (7 CFR part 36).
Background
AMS continually reviews all fruit and
vegetable grade standards to ensure
their usefulness to the industry,
modernize language, and remove
duplicative terminology. On May 13,
2013, AMS received a petition from the
Little People of America stating they
‘‘are trying to raise awareness around
and eliminate the use of the word
midget.’’ The petition further stated,
‘‘Though the use of the word midget by
the USDA when classifying certain food
products is benign, Little People of
America, and the dwarfism community,
hopes that the USDA would consider
phasing out the term midget.’’
AMS determined that six grade
standards contained the term
‘‘midget’’—U.S. Standards for Grades of
Canned Lima Beans, U.S. Standards for
Grades of Canned Mushrooms, U.S.
Standards for Grades of Pickles, U.S.
Standards for Grades of Green Olives,
U.S. Standards for Grades of Processed
Raisins, and U.S. Standards for Grades
of Shelled Pecans. The shelled pecans
and processed raisins standards were
addressed in two separate rules because
additional changes were being made to
those standards.
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This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER contains regulatory documents
having general applicability and legal effect, most of which are keyed
to and codified in the Code of Federal Regulations, which is published
under 50 titles pursuant to 44 U.S.C. 1510.
The Code of Federal Regulations is sold by the Superintendent of Documents.
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OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
5 CFR Part 900
Certifying the Use of a Merit Personnel System as Required by the
Intergovernmental Personnel Act of 1970
AGENCY: Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
ACTION: Guidance.
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SUMMARY: OPM wishes to publicly respond to inquiries regarding the
available range of staffing options for federally-funded and state-
administered low-income programs that are required to comply with the
Intergovernmental Personnel Act of 1970 (IPA) and its implementing
regulations.
DATES: April 19, 2019.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For questions, please contact Kim
Holden, Employee Services, Talent Acquisition and Workforce Shaping at
[email protected] or 202-606-8097.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant to 5 CFR 900.604(b)(3), OPM is
tasked with responding to requests for guidance regarding compliance
with the Intergovernmental Personnel Act of 1970 (IPA) and its
implementing regulations. When a federally-funded program requires
state and local agencies to establish a merit personnel system in order
to receive funds, the IPA and the regulations in 5 Code of Federal
Regulations (CFR) Part 900 Subpart F are applicable. These regulations
establish the standards that must be included in a merit personnel
system when it is certified by a state or local agency. The IPA and the
regulations do not prescribe the use of a particular staffing method
such as utilizing state employees or contract employees. In the absence
of any other statutory or regulatory requirement to use a specific
staffing method, the state or local agency has the discretion to
determine the most appropriate staffing method. Regardless of the
staffing method chosen, the state or local agency must certify that it
is using a merit personnel system that meets the standards outlined in
5 CFR 900.603.
Office of Personnel Management.
Alexys Stanley,
Regulatory Affairs Analyst.
[FR Doc. 2019-07312 Filed 4-18-19; 8:45 am]
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