Office of the Secretary May 31, 2013 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Under the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) of 1972 (5 U.S.C., Appendix, as amended), the Government in the Sunshine Act of 1976 (5 U.S.C. 552b, as amended), and 41 CFR 102-3.150, the Department of Defense (DoD) announces that the following Federal advisory committee meetings of the National Commission on the Structure of the Air Force (``the Commission''), to include a closed session, will take place.

Section 342(b) of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 1995, as amended by section 1109 of NDAA FY 2000 and section 1114 of NDAA FY 2001, authorizes the Secretary of Defense to conduct personnel demonstration projects at Department of Defense (DoD) laboratories designated as Science and Technology Reinvention Laboratories (STRLs). The above-cited legislation authorizes DoD to conduct demonstration projects to determine whether a specified change in personnel management policies or procedures would result in improved Federal personnel management. This notice makes changes to the ECBC Personnel Management Demonstration Project. It includes revisions to the annual review for supervisory/team leader base pay adjustments and adds clarification of the waiver to 5 U.S.C. 7512(4), amends procedures for recruiting and filling positions above the minimum of the pay band; and eliminates within grade increase (WGI) buy-ins for certain personnel actions.

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is proposing to update the NGA Privacy Act Program by adding the (j)(2) and (k)(2) exemptions to accurately describe the basis for exempting the records in the system of records notice NGA-004, NGA Threat Mitigation Records. In addition, exempt materials from JUSTICE/FBI-019 Terrorist Screening Records System may become part of the case records in this system of records. To the extent that copies of exempt records from JUSTICE/FBI- 019, Terrorist Screening Records System are entered into these Threat Mitigation case records, NGA hereby claims the same exemptions for the records as claimed in JUSTICE/FBI-019, Terrorist Screening Records system of records of which they are a part.