Office of Government Ethics 2021 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The US. Office of Government Ethics (OGE) proposes to revise four and rescind one of its existing internal systems of records under the Privacy Act. The system of records to be rescinded is OGE/INTERNAL-2, which covers telephone call detail records that were used to verify employee telephone usage and to resolve billing discrepancies. The four systems of records to be revised are the following: OGE/INTERNAL-1 Pay, Leave and Travel Records, which contains records related to OGE employees' pay, leave, and travel, including information regarding leave accrual rate, usage, and balances, salary withholdings, travel expenses, and usage of the transit fare subsidy program; OGE/INTERNAL-3 Grievance Records, which contains records relating to grievances filed by OGE employees; OGE/INTERNAL-4 Computer Systems Activity and Access Records, which contains information on the use of official email systems, user access to OGE's computer networks, and records related to the verification or authorization of an individual's access to systems, files, or applications; and OGE/INTERNAL-5 Employee Locator and Emergency Notification Records, which contains information regarding the organizational location, telephone extension, and hours of duty of OGE employees, as well as their personal contact information and the name, relationship, and telephone number of employees' emergency contacts.

After publication of this second round notice, the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) intends to submit a renewed Generic Information Collection Request for the collection of qualitative feedback on agency service delivery for review and approval of a three-year extension under the Paperwork Reduction Act. Comments: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function.

After this first round notice and public comment period, the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) plans to request that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) renew its approval under the Paperwork Reduction Act for an existing information collection, entitled the OGE Form 450 Executive Branch Confidential Financial Disclosure Report.

After this first round notice and public comment period, the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) intends to submit a renewed Generic Information Collection Request for the collection of qualitative feedback on agency service delivery for review and approval of a three- year extension under the Paperwork Reduction Act.

The U.S. Office of Government Ethics (OGE) is issuing this final rule to revise the component designations of one agency for purposes of the one-year post-employment conflict of interest restriction for senior employees. Specifically, based on the recommendation of the Department of Defense, OGE is designating one new component to its regulations.