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Management.
ACTION: Notice of approval of a
modification to a demonstration project
final plan.
The Civil Service Reform Act,
authorizes the Office of Personnel
Management (OPM) to conduct
demonstration projects that experiment
with new and different human resources
management concepts to determine
whether changes in policies or
procedures would result in improved
Federal human resources management.
On December 21, 2007, OPM published
a document in the Federal Register
announcing final approval of a
demonstration project plan for the
National Nuclear Security
Administration (NNSA), a separately
organized agency within the U.S.
Department of Energy (DOE). This
notice constitutes OPM’s approval of a
modification of NNSA’s final project
plan to change performance rating levels
and a related change to the performance
rating level pay shares.
DATES: These modifications to NNSA’s
demonstration project final plan are
effective immediately upon publication
of this notice.
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1. Background
OPM approved NNSA’s
demonstration project final plan and it
was published in the Federal Register
on December 21, 2007 (72 FR 72776).
The demonstration project was
implemented on March 16, 2008,
modified by three technical corrections
to the final project plan on July 31,
2008, as published in the Federal
Register (73 FR 44786) and modified by
minor administrative changes, one
participating organization change, and
two employee coverage changes on
February 14, 2014 (79 FR 9007).
All employees of the Naval Nuclear
Propulsion Program in the competitive
services (as defined in section 2102 of
title 5, United States Code) and all
employees of the Department of Navy
who are assigned to the Naval Nuclear
Propulsion Program and are in the
excepted services (as defined in section
2103 of title 5, United States Code)
participate in the NNSA’s
demonstration project. With the
publishing of the current NNSA Act on
February 24,2020, NNSA’s
demonstration project was extended for
10 years from the date of publication.
NNSA’s demonstration project has
been evaluated routinely with the latest
evaluation taking place in 2017. These
evaluations resulted in overall positive
results.
2. Statement of Purpose
The principal purposes of the NNSA
demonstration project are to—
(1) Modify and simplify the General
Schedule (GS) classification system by
establishing pay bands which may cover
more than one grade; and
(2) Modify the GS pay system to base
pay increases on performance
distinctions made under a credible,
strategically aligned performance
appraisal program and thereby improve
the results-oriented performance culture
within the organization.
The primary goals of the project are
to:
(1) Improve hiring by allowing NNSA
to compete more effectively for high
quality employees through the judicious
use of higher entry salaries;
(2) Motivate and retain staff by
providing faster pay progression for
high-performing employees;
(3) Improve the usefulness and
responsiveness of the position
classification system to managers;
(4) Increase the efficiency of
administering the position classification
system through a simplified pay-banded
application of the current General
Schedule grade structure, and reduce
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the procedural steps and documentation
requirements traditionally associated
with classifying positions;
(5) Eliminate automatic pay increases
(i.e., annual adjustments that normally
take effect the first day of the first pay
period beginning on or after January 1)
by making pay increases performance
sensitive, so that only Fully Successful
(known as ‘‘Fully Meets Expectations’’
in NNSA) and higher performers will
receive pay adjustments, and the best
performers will receive the largest pay
adjustments;
(6) Integrate with, build upon, and
advance the work of several key human
capital management improvement
initiatives and projects currently
underway in NNSA, including—
a. Advancing the ongoing refinement
of NNSA’s enterprise-wide performance
management program, including
automated refinements,
b. Achieving greater parity, though
not complete harmony, with NNSA’s
mature excepted service pay-banded
and pay-for-performance system (e.g.,
will have a lower high-end pay band; no
automatic pay increases, etc.),
c. Building on the simplified position
description (PD) format and automated
PD library that are already in place,
d. Continuing to develop improved
performance management skills among
first-line supervisors through increased
program rigor, additional training, and
better guidance materials, to better
develop standards that reflect
differences in performance,
e. Establishing a system of career
enhancing career paths for the purpose
of developing, advancing, and retaining
employees,
f. Building on the workforce analysis
and planning system, already in place,
to identify FTE needs and competency
needs and skills gaps, to conduct a valid
occupational analysis to construct
meaningful pay bands.
To accomplish these goals, NNSA
modified and waived parts of the GS
classification and pay system by
identifying broad career paths,
establishing pay bands which often
combined grades, eliminating longevitybased step progression, and providing
for annual pay increases based on
performance.
3. Description of Changes to the Project
Plan
NNSA amends the original
demonstration project final plan (72 FR
72776) to make two significant changes
to the NNSA demonstration project
performance rating system. One change
concerns performance rating levels and
one change concerns the number of
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performance shares assigned to
identified performance rating levels.
(1) Performance Rating Levels Change
Section III, B.1. indicates the NNSA
current performance appraisal program
uses a four-level rating pattern to both
summarize performance and to appraise
performance at the element level. Its
summary level pattern under 5 CFR
430.208(d) uses Levels 1, 2, 3, and 5,
which NNSA has labeled Does Not Meet
Expectations, Needs Improvement,
Fully Meets Expectations, and
Significantly Exceeds Expectations,
respectively.
NNSA believes that a rating
recognizing employee performance
above the Fully Meets Expectations
(FME) level but not at the level of
Significantly Exceeds Expectations
(SEE) is a potential motivating factor for
employees. In response, NNSA is
altering the current Performance Rating
titles to better reflect levels of employee
performance to recognize employees
who exceed expectations but do not
meet the requirements for the SEE
performance rating.
Section III, B.1. is updated to read
‘‘The program currently uses a five-level
rating pattern to both summarize
performance and to appraise
performance at the element level, its
summary level pattern under 5 CFR
430.208(d) uses Levels 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5,
which NNSA has labeled Does Not Meet
Expectations, Needs Improvement,
Fully Meets Expectations, Exceeds
Expectations, and Significantly Exceeds
Expectations, respectively.’’
(2) Performance-Based Pay
Adjustments—Performance Shares
Change
Section III, C.2. discusses how
performance shares are distributed
based on performance rating level and
states: ‘‘Initially, the number of shares
for each rating level will be as follows:
4 shares are assigned to a Significantly
Exceeds Expectations summary rating
when an employee receives SEE ratings
in all critical elements; 3 shares are
assigned when an employee receives a
summary rating of SEE, but one or more
critical elements are rated at FME; 2
shares are assigned to an FME summary
rating when one or more critical
elements are rated at SEE; and 1 share
is assigned to an FME summary rating
when no critical element is rated below
FME. Employees who receive a final
summary rating of FME with one critical
element rated at the NI level are not
eligible for any shares from the
performance pay pool.’’
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The table below, which is included in
the DEMO Policies and Procedures
Manual, illustrates the current
performance share distribution.
Summary rating level
Derivation
Shares
Level 4—Significantly Exceeds Expectations (SEE) ......................
All Specific Performance Objectives (SPOs) are rated at the SEE
level.
A majority of the SPOs are rated at the SEE level and the remaining SPOs rated at the FME level.
There is an equal amount of SPOs rated at the SEE and FME
levels, or a majority of the SPOs are rated at the FME level
with the remaining SPOs rated at the SEE level.
All SPOs are rated at the FME level ..............................................
One or more NI SPOs with none rated DNME ..............................
One or more SPOs rated DNME ...................................................
4
Level 3—Fully Meets Expectations (FME) .....................................
Level 2—Needs Improvement (NI) .................................................
Level 1—Does Not Meet Expectations (DNME) ............................
Section III, C.2. is updated to read
‘‘The number of shares for each rating
level will be as follows: 4 shares are
assigned to a Significantly Exceeds
Expectations summary rating when an
employee receives SEE ratings in all
critical elements; 3 shares are assigned
when an employee receives a summary
rating of EE, when a majority of SPOs
are rated SEE or EE and the remaining
3
2
1
0
0
rated at the NI level are not eligible for
any shares from the performance pay
pool.’’
The performance share distribution is
updated to reflect the implementation of
the five-level performance rating
change. Pay share distribution is
outlined in the table below:
are rated FME; 2 shares are assigned to
an FME summary rating when an equal
amount of SEE or EE and FME SPOs, or
a majority are rated FME and the
remaining are rated SEE or EE; 1 share
is assigned to an FME rating when all
SPOs are rated FME and no critical
element is rated below FME. Employees
who receive a final summary rating of
FME with one or more critical elements
Summary rating level
Derivation
Shares
Level 5—Significantly Exceeds Expectations (SEE) ......................
Level 4—Exceeds Expectations (EE) ............................................
All SPOs are rated SEE .................................................................
Majority of SPOs are rated SEE or EE and the remaining are
rated FME.
Equal SEE or EE and FME SPOs or majority are rated FME and
the remaining are rated SEE or EE.
All SPOs are rated FME .................................................................
One or more NI SPOs with none rated DNME. .............................
One or more SPOs rated DNME ...................................................
4
3
Level 3—Fully Meets Expectations (FME) .....................................
Level 2—Needs Improvement (NI) .................................................
Level 1—Does Not Meet Expectations (DNME) ............................
This change will take effect
immediately upon publication and the
rating share pattern will be applied in
computing performance-based shares at
the end of FY 2023 performance
appraisal period. This table will be
incorporated into the NNSA DEMO
policies and procedures manual.
4. Notification Responsibilities
As required by 5 CFR 470.315, NNSA
has the following notification
responsibilities for this project
modification: Notify and make copies of
this Federal Register notice available to
all employees affected by the activities
of the demonstration project.
U.S. Office of Personnel Management.
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Stephen Hickman,
Federal Register Liaison.
Approval
Pursuant to 5 CFR 470.315, OPM
approves the following modification to
NNSA’s final project plan.
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Specific Textual Changes to the Project
Plan
In FR Doc. 07–6144, published on
December 21, 2007 (72 FR 72776), make
the following textual changes:
(1) On Page 72794: ‘‘Program
Requirements’’
Program requirements is amended, as
excerpted:
‘‘The program currently uses a fivelevel rating pattern to both summarize
performance and to appraise
performance at the element level. Its
summary level pattern under 5 CFR
430.208(d) uses Levels 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5,
which NNSA has labeled Does Not Meet
Expectations, Needs Improvement,
Fully Meets Expectations, Exceeds
Expectations, and Significantly Exceeds
Expectations, respectively.’’
(2) On Page 72795: ‘‘Performance
Shares’’
Performance Shares is amended, as
excerpted:
‘‘The number of shares for each rating
level will be as follows: 4 shares are
assigned to a Significantly Exceeds
Expectations summary rating when an
employee receives SEE ratings in all
critical elements; 3 shares are assigned
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when an employee receives a summary
rating of EE, when a majority of SPOs
are rated SEE or EE and the remaining
are rated FME; 2 shares are assigned to
an FME summary rating when an equal
amount of SEE or EE and FME SPOs, or
a majority are rated FME and the
remaining are rated SEE or EE; 1 share
is assigned to an FME rating when all
SPOs are rated FME and no critical
element is rated below FME.’’
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OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
Personnel Demonstration Project; Pay Banding and Performance-
Based Pay Adjustments in the National Nuclear Security Administration
AGENCY: U.S. Office of Personnel Management.
ACTION: Notice of approval of a modification to a demonstration project
final plan.
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SUMMARY: The Civil Service Reform Act, authorizes the Office of
Personnel Management (OPM) to conduct demonstration projects that
experiment with new and different human resources management concepts
to determine whether changes in policies or procedures would result in
improved Federal human resources management. On December 21, 2007, OPM
published a document in the Federal Register announcing final approval
of a demonstration project plan for the National Nuclear Security
Administration (NNSA), a separately organized agency within the U.S.
Department of Energy (DOE). This notice constitutes OPM's approval of a
modification of NNSA's final project plan to change performance rating
levels and a related change to the performance rating level pay shares.
DATES: These modifications to NNSA's demonstration project final plan
are effective immediately upon publication of this notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: National Nuclear Security
Administration: Melanie Ramirez, 505-261-6338,
[email protected]. Office of Personnel Management: Michael
Bostwick, 720-308-3265, [email protected].
[[Page 19992]]
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
1. Background
OPM approved NNSA's demonstration project final plan and it was
published in the Federal Register on December 21, 2007 (72 FR 72776).
The demonstration project was implemented on March 16, 2008, modified
by three technical corrections to the final project plan on July 31,
2008, as published in the Federal Register (73 FR 44786) and modified
by minor administrative changes, one participating organization change,
and two employee coverage changes on February 14, 2014 (79 FR 9007).
All employees of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program in the
competitive services (as defined in section 2102 of title 5, United
States Code) and all employees of the Department of Navy who are
assigned to the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program and are in the
excepted services (as defined in section 2103 of title 5, United States
Code) participate in the NNSA's demonstration project. With the
publishing of the current NNSA Act on February 24,2020, NNSA's
demonstration project was extended for 10 years from the date of
publication.
NNSA's demonstration project has been evaluated routinely with the
latest evaluation taking place in 2017. These evaluations resulted in
overall positive results.
2. Statement of Purpose
The principal purposes of the NNSA demonstration project are to--
(1) Modify and simplify the General Schedule (GS) classification
system by establishing pay bands which may cover more than one grade;
and
(2) Modify the GS pay system to base pay increases on performance
distinctions made under a credible, strategically aligned performance
appraisal program and thereby improve the results-oriented performance
culture within the organization.
The primary goals of the project are to:
(1) Improve hiring by allowing NNSA to compete more effectively for
high quality employees through the judicious use of higher entry
salaries;
(2) Motivate and retain staff by providing faster pay progression
for high-performing employees;
(3) Improve the usefulness and responsiveness of the position
classification system to managers;
(4) Increase the efficiency of administering the position
classification system through a simplified pay-banded application of
the current General Schedule grade structure, and reduce the procedural
steps and documentation requirements traditionally associated with
classifying positions;
(5) Eliminate automatic pay increases (i.e., annual adjustments
that normally take effect the first day of the first pay period
beginning on or after January 1) by making pay increases performance
sensitive, so that only Fully Successful (known as ``Fully Meets
Expectations'' in NNSA) and higher performers will receive pay
adjustments, and the best performers will receive the largest pay
adjustments;
(6) Integrate with, build upon, and advance the work of several key
human capital management improvement initiatives and projects currently
underway in NNSA, including--
a. Advancing the ongoing refinement of NNSA's enterprise-wide
performance management program, including automated refinements,
b. Achieving greater parity, though not complete harmony, with
NNSA's mature excepted service pay-banded and pay-for-performance
system (e.g., will have a lower high-end pay band; no automatic pay
increases, etc.),
c. Building on the simplified position description (PD) format and
automated PD library that are already in place,
d. Continuing to develop improved performance management skills
among first-line supervisors through increased program rigor,
additional training, and better guidance materials, to better develop
standards that reflect differences in performance,
e. Establishing a system of career enhancing career paths for the
purpose of developing, advancing, and retaining employees,
f. Building on the workforce analysis and planning system, already
in place, to identify FTE needs and competency needs and skills gaps,
to conduct a valid occupational analysis to construct meaningful pay
bands.
To accomplish these goals, NNSA modified and waived parts of the GS
classification and pay system by identifying broad career paths,
establishing pay bands which often combined grades, eliminating
longevity-based step progression, and providing for annual pay
increases based on performance.
3. Description of Changes to the Project Plan
NNSA amends the original demonstration project final plan (72 FR
72776) to make two significant changes to the NNSA demonstration
project performance rating system. One change concerns performance
rating levels and one change concerns the number of performance shares
assigned to identified performance rating levels.
(1) Performance Rating Levels Change
Section III, B.1. indicates the NNSA current performance appraisal
program uses a four-level rating pattern to both summarize performance
and to appraise performance at the element level. Its summary level
pattern under 5 CFR 430.208(d) uses Levels 1, 2, 3, and 5, which NNSA
has labeled Does Not Meet Expectations, Needs Improvement, Fully Meets
Expectations, and Significantly Exceeds Expectations, respectively.
NNSA believes that a rating recognizing employee performance above
the Fully Meets Expectations (FME) level but not at the level of
Significantly Exceeds Expectations (SEE) is a potential motivating
factor for employees. In response, NNSA is altering the current
Performance Rating titles to better reflect levels of employee
performance to recognize employees who exceed expectations but do not
meet the requirements for the SEE performance rating.
Section III, B.1. is updated to read ``The program currently uses a
five-level rating pattern to both summarize performance and to appraise
performance at the element level, its summary level pattern under 5 CFR
430.208(d) uses Levels 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, which NNSA has labeled Does
Not Meet Expectations, Needs Improvement, Fully Meets Expectations,
Exceeds Expectations, and Significantly Exceeds Expectations,
respectively.''
(2) Performance-Based Pay Adjustments--Performance Shares Change
Section III, C.2. discusses how performance shares are distributed
based on performance rating level and states: ``Initially, the number
of shares for each rating level will be as follows: 4 shares are
assigned to a Significantly Exceeds Expectations summary rating when an
employee receives SEE ratings in all critical elements; 3 shares are
assigned when an employee receives a summary rating of SEE, but one or
more critical elements are rated at FME; 2 shares are assigned to an
FME summary rating when one or more critical elements are rated at SEE;
and 1 share is assigned to an FME summary rating when no critical
element is rated below FME. Employees who receive a final summary
rating of FME with one critical element rated at the NI level are not
eligible for any shares from the performance pay pool.''
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The table below, which is included in the DEMO Policies and
Procedures Manual, illustrates the current performance share
distribution.
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Summary rating level Derivation Shares
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Level 4--Significantly Exceeds All Specific Performance 4
Expectations (SEE). Objectives (SPOs) are
rated at the SEE level.
A majority of the SPOs 3
are rated at the SEE
level and the remaining
SPOs rated at the FME
level.
Level 3--Fully Meets Expectations There is an equal amount 2
(FME). of SPOs rated at the SEE
and FME levels, or a
majority of the SPOs are
rated at the FME level
with the remaining SPOs
rated at the SEE level.
All SPOs are rated at the 1
FME level.
Level 2--Needs Improvement (NI).. One or more NI SPOs with 0
none rated DNME.
Level 1--Does Not Meet One or more SPOs rated 0
Expectations (DNME). DNME.
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Section III, C.2. is updated to read ``The number of shares for
each rating level will be as follows: 4 shares are assigned to a
Significantly Exceeds Expectations summary rating when an employee
receives SEE ratings in all critical elements; 3 shares are assigned
when an employee receives a summary rating of EE, when a majority of
SPOs are rated SEE or EE and the remaining are rated FME; 2 shares are
assigned to an FME summary rating when an equal amount of SEE or EE and
FME SPOs, or a majority are rated FME and the remaining are rated SEE
or EE; 1 share is assigned to an FME rating when all SPOs are rated FME
and no critical element is rated below FME. Employees who receive a
final summary rating of FME with one or more critical elements rated at
the NI level are not eligible for any shares from the performance pay
pool.''
The performance share distribution is updated to reflect the
implementation of the five-level performance rating change. Pay share
distribution is outlined in the table below:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Summary rating level Derivation Shares
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Level 5--Significantly Exceeds All SPOs are rated SEE... 4
Expectations (SEE).
Level 4--Exceeds Expectations Majority of SPOs are 3
(EE). rated SEE or EE and the
remaining are rated FME.
Level 3--Fully Meets Expectations Equal SEE or EE and FME 2
(FME). SPOs or majority are
rated FME and the
remaining are rated SEE
or EE.
All SPOs are rated FME... 1
Level 2--Needs Improvement (NI).. One or more NI SPOs with 0
none rated DNME..
Level 1--Does Not Meet One or more SPOs rated 0
Expectations (DNME). DNME.
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This change will take effect immediately upon publication and the
rating share pattern will be applied in computing performance-based
shares at the end of FY 2023 performance appraisal period. This table
will be incorporated into the NNSA DEMO policies and procedures manual.
4. Notification Responsibilities
As required by 5 CFR 470.315, NNSA has the following notification
responsibilities for this project modification: Notify and make copies
of this Federal Register notice available to all employees affected by
the activities of the demonstration project.
U.S. Office of Personnel Management.
Stephen Hickman,
Federal Register Liaison.
Approval
Pursuant to 5 CFR 470.315, OPM approves the following modification
to NNSA's final project plan.
Specific Textual Changes to the Project Plan
In FR Doc. 07-6144, published on December 21, 2007 (72 FR 72776),
make the following textual changes:
(1) On Page 72794: ``Program Requirements''
Program requirements is amended, as excerpted:
``The program currently uses a five-level rating pattern to both
summarize performance and to appraise performance at the element level.
Its summary level pattern under 5 CFR 430.208(d) uses Levels 1, 2, 3,
4, and 5, which NNSA has labeled Does Not Meet Expectations, Needs
Improvement, Fully Meets Expectations, Exceeds Expectations, and
Significantly Exceeds Expectations, respectively.''
(2) On Page 72795: ``Performance Shares''
Performance Shares is amended, as excerpted:
``The number of shares for each rating level will be as follows: 4
shares are assigned to a Significantly Exceeds Expectations summary
rating when an employee receives SEE ratings in all critical elements;
3 shares are assigned when an employee receives a summary rating of EE,
when a majority of SPOs are rated SEE or EE and the remaining are rated
FME; 2 shares are assigned to an FME summary rating when an equal
amount of SEE or EE and FME SPOs, or a majority are rated FME and the
remaining are rated SEE or EE; 1 share is assigned to an FME rating
when all SPOs are rated FME and no critical element is rated below
FME.''
[FR Doc. 2023-06766 Filed 4-3-23; 8:45 am]
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