Office of Personnel Management – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

This notice identifies Schedule A, B, and C appointing authorities applicable to a single agency that was established, modified, or revoked from July 1, 2023, to July 31, 2023.

This notice identifies Schedule A, B, and C appointing authorities applicable to a single agency that was established, modified. or revoked from August 1, 2023, to August 31, 2023.

This notice identifies Schedule A, B, and C appointing authorities applicable to a single agency that was established, modified, or revoked from October 1, 2023, to October 31, 2023.

This notice identifies Schedule A, B, and C appointing authorities applicable to a single agency that were established, modified, or revoked from May 1, 2023, to May 31, 2023.

This notice publishes a consolidated list of all positions in the Senior Executive Service (SES) that were career reserved during calendar year 2023.

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, OPM is proposing revisions to a currently approved information collection, OMB Control Number, 3206-0276: Generic Clearance for Improving Customer Service.

This rule finalizes an interim final rule that established the Postal Service Health Benefits (PSHB) Program for Postal Service employees, Postal Service annuitants, and their eligible family members, pursuant to the Postal Service Reform Act of 2022. This Program will include health benefits plans available to United States Postal Service (Postal Service) employees, Postal Service annuitants, and their eligible family members starting January 1, 2025. For these individuals, eligibility for enrollment or coverage in FEHB plans based on Postal Service employment will end on December 31, 2024, and they will be able to enroll in or be covered only by PSHB plans after that time. Open Season for enrollee selection of PSHB plans will occur from November 11 through December 9, 2024. OPM will publish the negotiated PSHB plan rates and benefits for the 2025 plan year in September 2024. This rule adopts the provisions of the interim final rule with minor clarifications on the Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) implementation of the PSHB Program.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, OPM is proposing an extension to a currently approved information collection, OMB Control Number, 3206-0138: RI 30-9Reinstatement of Disability Annuity Previously Terminated Because of Restoration to Earning Capacity.

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): Survivor Annuity Election for a Spouse (RI 20-63), Cover Letter Giving Information about the Cost to Elect Less Than the Maximum Survivor Annuity (RI 20-116) and Cover Letter Giving Information About the Cost to Elect the Maximum Survivor Annuity (RI 20-117).

Pursuant to the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended by the Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 1988 and the Computer Matching Privacy Protections Amendment of 1990 (Privacy Act), and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) guidance on the conduct of matching programs, notice is hereby given of the reestablishment of a matching program between the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the Social Security Administration (SSA) (Computer Matching Agreement 1045), the purpose of which is to assist OPM in meeting its legal obligation to offset benefits payable by OPM to annuitants.

The purpose of this meeting is for the Civil Service Retirement System Board of Actuaries to review the actuarial methods and assumptions used in the valuations of the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund (CSRDF).

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is proposing an extension to a currently approved information collection: OMB Control Number, 3206- 0134, Application to Make Deposit or Redeposit (CSRS)SF 2803 and Application to Make Service Credit Payment for Civilian Service (FERS)SF 3108.

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is proposing an extension to a currently approved information collection, OMB Control Number, 3206- 0128: SF 2802 (Application for Refund of Retirement Deductions: CSRS) and SF 2802A (Notification of Application for Refund of Retirement Deductions Under CSRS).

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is proposing to revise the procedures for determining whether an individual's failure to register with the Selective Service System (SSS) was knowing and willful. These changes are intended to ensure that individuals in these circumstances have an opportunity to fully explain their failure to register and that the determination is based on a more complete record. In addition, the rule proposes to enable Federal agencies to make initial determinations as to whether an individual's failure to register with the SSS was knowing and willful.

This document corrects the amendatory instructions in a final rule that was published in the Federal Register on January 24, 2024, regarding updates to the North American Industry Classification System Based Federal Wage System Wage Surveys.

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Suitability Executive Agent Programs, is notifying the general public and other Federal agencies that OPM proposes to request the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) revise and renew the Questionnaire for Public Trust Positions (SF 85P) and Supplemental Questionnaire for Selected Positions (SF 85P-S).

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), with change: 3206-0201, Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Open Season Express Interactive Voice Response (IVR) System and the Open Season website, Open Season Online.

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing this final rule to update the 2017 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes currently used in Federal Wage System (FWS) wage survey industry regulations with the 2022 NAICS revisions published by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

This rule adjusts the level of civil monetary penalties contained in U.S. Office of Personnel Management regulations implementing the Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act of 1986, in accordance with the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015 and Office of Management and Budget guidance.