Office of Personnel Management March 2006 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

On January 25, 2006, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued proposed rules regarding the reporting and best practices requirements of Title II of the No FEAR Act (71 FR 4053). The proposed rule contained a 60-day comment period. In response to requests by the No Fear Coalition and Members of Congress to extend the comment period, OPM has reopened the initial comment period until May 1, 2006.

The Office of Personnel Management is issuing final regulations requiring agencies to notify members of the Senior Executive Service (SES) and other employees in senior positions of certain post-employment conflict-of-interest restrictions. Agencies must provide written notification to affected employees of the new salary-based threshold for determining the applicability of the post- employment conflict-of-interest restrictions.

This gives notice of OPM decisions granting authority to make appointments under Schedules A, B, and C in the excepted service as required by 5 CFR 6.6 and 213.103.

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing proposed regulations to provide agencies with the authority to increase the rates of basic pay of certain members of the Senior Executive Service (SES) whose pay was set before the agency's senior executive performance appraisal system was certified for the calendar year involved. The proposed regulations would allow an agency to review the rate of basic pay of these SES members and provide an additional pay increase, if warranted, up to the rate for level II of the Executive Schedule upon certification of the agency's senior executive performance appraisal system for the current calendar year.