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October 22, 2004 [Notice]
Proposed Collection; Comment Request; Review of a Revised
Information Collection: OPM Form of 612, Optional Application for
Federal Employment Resume Builder in USAJOBS Web Site and the USAJOBS
Web Site
SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub.
L. 104-13, May 22, 1995), this notice announces that the Office of
Personnel Management (OPM) intends to submit to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) a revised information collection of the
optional form called Optional Application for Federal Employment (OF
612); the specifications of the improved resume builder in the USAJOBS
Web site (http://www.USAJOBS.opm.gov); and screen shots of the Web.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mary Beth Smith-Toomey on
(202) 606-8358, Fax (202) 418-3251 or via E-mail to mbtoomey@opm.gov.
Please include a mailing address with your request..
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October 22, 2004 [Notice]
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request for Review of a
Revised Information Collection: Standard Form 2808
SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Public
Law 104-13, May 22, 1995), this notice announces that the Office of
Personnel Management (OPM) has submitted to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) a request for review of a revised information
collection. SF 2808, Designation of Beneficiary: Civil Service
Retirement System (CSRS), is used by persons covered by CSRS to
designate a beneficiary to receive the lump sum payment due from the
Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund in the event of their
death.
Approximately 2,000 forms will be completed annually. The form
takes approximately 15 minutes to complete. The annual burden is
estimated at 500 hours.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mary Beth Smith-Toomey on
(202) 606-8358, Fax (202) 418-3251 or via E-mail to mbtoomey@opm.gov.
Please include a mailing address with your request..
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October 22, 2004 [Notice]
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request for Review of a
Revised Information Collection: RI 94-7
SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub.
L. 104-13, May 22, 1995), this notice announces that the Office of
Personnel Management (OPM) has submitted to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) a request for review of a revised information
collection. RI 94-7, Death Benefit Payment Rollover Election for the
Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS), provides FERS surviving
spouses and former spouses with the means to elect payment of FERS
rollover-eligible benefits directly or to an Individual Retirement
Arrangement.
Approximately 2,000 RI 94-7 forms will be completed annually. The
form takes approximately 60 minutes to complete. The annual burden is
2,000 hours.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mary Beth Smith-Toomey on
(202) 606-8358, FAX (202) 418-3251 or via e-mail to
mbtoomey@opm.gov.
Please include a mailing address with your request.
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October 15, 2004 [Rules and Regulations]
Notification of Post-Employment Restrictions
SUMMARY: The Office of Personnel Management is issuing interim
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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jo Ann Perrini by telephone at
(202) 606-2858; by FAX at (202) 606-0824; or by
e-mail at pay-performance-policy@opm.gov..
Please include a mailing address with your request.
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October 13, 2004 [Notice]
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request for Review of a
Revised Information Collection: RI 25-51
SUMMARY:In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub.
L. 104-13, May 22, 1995), this notice announces that the Office of
Personnel Management (OPM) has submitted to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) a request for review of a revised information
collection. RI 25-51, Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) Survivor
Annuitant Express Pay Application for Death Benefits, will be used by
the Civil Service Retirement System solely to pay benefits to the
widow(er) of an annuitant. This application is intended for use in
immediately authorizing payments to an annuitant's widow or widower,
based on the report of death, when our records show the decedent
elected to provide benefits for the applicant.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mary Beth Smith-Toomey on
(202) 606-8358, FAX (202) 418-3251 or via e-mail to mbtoomey@opm.gov.
Please include a mailing address with your request.
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October 13, 2004 [Notice]
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request for Review of a
Currently Approved Information Collection: RI 98-7
SUMMARY:In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub.
L. 104-13, May 22, 1995), this notice announces that the Office of
Personnel Management (OPM) has submitted to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) a request for review of a currently approved
information collection. RI 98-7, We Need Important Information About
Your Eligibility for Social Security Disability Benefits, is used by
OPM to verify receipt of Social Security Administration (SSA)
disability benefits, to lessen or avoid overpayment to Federal
Employees Retirement System (FERS) disability retirees. It notifies the
annuitant of the responsibility to notify OPM if SSA benefits begin and
the overpayment that will occur with the receipt of both benefits.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mary Beth Smith-Toomey on
(202) 606-8358, FAX (202) 418-3251 or via e-mail to mbtoomey@opm.gov.
Please include a mailing address with your request.
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October 7, 2004 [Proposed Rules]
Computation of Pay for Biweekly Pay Periods
SUMMARY:The Office of Personnel Management is issuing proposed
regulations to implement a statutory amendment that requires the pay of
heads of agencies and other designated employees to be calculated and
paid on a biweekly basis instead of on a monthly basis. The proposed
regulations also prescribe the circumstances under which an agency may
calculate the pay of an employee on a biweekly pay period basis whose
pay otherwise would be calculated on a monthly or other basis.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ronald Genua by telephone at (202)
606-2858; by Fax at (202) 606-4264; or by e-mail at
pay-performance-policy@opm.gov.
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October 6, 2004 [Rules and Regulations]
Cost-of-Living Allowances (Nonforeign Areas); Methodology Changes
SUMMARY:The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is making technical
changes in the methodology used to determine nonforeign area cost-of-
living allowances (COLAs). The changes correct minor drafting errors;
provide consistent treatment of sale prices; allow the use of non-
housing price data collected on St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands; correct
and clarify the definition of survey areas; and allow a one-time
prospective index adjustment for the Caribbean and Alaska areas
concurrent with the effective date of any COLA rate changes resulting
from the 2004 Pacific COLA surveys. OPM is making these changes in
large part as the result of experience gained in recent COLA surveys
and upon the recommendation of several groups established to assist us
in administering the COLA program.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Donald L. Paquin, (202) 606-2838;
fax:(202) 606-4264; or e-mail: COLA@opm.gov
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October 4, 2004 [Proposed Rules]
Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance; Federal Acquisition Regulation
SUMMARY: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing proposed
regulations to amend the Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance
(FEGLI) Acquisition Regulation. The proposed regulations incorporate
changes in administrative policy and practices and make clarifying
language changes.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Karen Leibach, (202) 606-0004.
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September 30, 2004 [Notices]
Proposed Collection; Comment Request for Review of a Revised Information Collection
SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub.
L. 104-13, May 22, 1995), this notice announces that the Office of
Personnel Management (OPM) intends to submit to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) a request for review of a revised
information collection.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mary Beth Smith-Toomey, (202) 606-8358, e-mail: mbtoomey@opm.gov
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September 23, 2004 [Notices]
Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance Program: New Option B Premiums
SUMMARY: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is announcing new
Federal Employees' Group Life Insurance (FEGLI) premiums for the upper
age bands of Option B. The premiums will be maintained on the FEGLI Web
site at http://www.opm.gov/insure/life.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Karen Leibach, (202) 606-0004.
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September 23, 2004 [Rules and Regulations]
Federal Employees Health Benefits Children's Equity
SUMMARY: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is issuing final
regulations to implement the Federal Employees Health Benefits
Children's Equity Act of 2000, which was enacted October 30, 2000. This
law mandates the enrollment of a Federal employee for self and family
coverage in the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program, if
the employee is subject to a court or administrative order requiring
him or her to provide health benefits for his or her child or children
and the employee does not provide documentation of compliance with the
order.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nataya Battle (202) 606-0004, or
e-mail to nataya.battle@opm.gov.
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September 22, 2004 [Proposed Rules]
General Schedule Locality Pay Areas
SUMMARY: The Office of Personnel Management is issuing proposed
regulations on behalf of the President's Pay Agent to link the
definitions of General Schedule locality pay area boundaries to the
geographic scope of metropolitan area definitions established by the
Office of Management and Budget. This proposal makes use of new
criteria for evaluating areas adjacent to locality pay areas. The
proposed regulations would retain all of the existing locality pay
areas, which would be expanded to include a number of additional
locations.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Allan Hearne, (202) 606-2838; FAX:
(202) 606-4264; e-mail: pay-performance-policy@opm.gov.
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September 21, 2004 [Notices]
Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee; Open Committee Meetings
SUMMARY: According to the provisions of section 10 of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), notice is hereby given that a meeting of the Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee will be held on Thursday, October 21, 2004.
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September 21, 2004 [Notices]
Federal Employees Health Benefits Program: Medically Underserved Areas for 2005
SUMMARY: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has completed its
annual determination of the States that qualify as Medically
Underserved Areas under the Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB)
Program for calendar year 2005. This is necessary to comply with a
provision of the FEHB law that mandates special consideration for
enrollees of certain FEHB plans who receive covered health services in
States with critical shortages of primary care physicians. Accordingly,
for calendar year 2005, OPM's calculations show that the following
states are Medically Underserved Areas under the FEHB Program: Alabama,
Alaska, Idaho, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New
Mexico, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming.
For the 2005 contract year Alaska is being added to the list and Maine,
West Virginia, and Utah are being removed.
FOR FUTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ingrid Burford, (202) 606-0004.
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September 17, 2004 [Rules and Regulations]
Premium Pay Limitations
SUMMARY: The Office of Personnel Management is issuing final
regulations concerning the rules governing payment of premium pay and
premium pay limitations for Federal employees. The final rule
implements a statute that raised the premium pay caps for most
employees, permitted the use of an annual cap instead of a biweekly cap
in additional circumstances, and made certain other changes.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Vicki Draper by phone at (202) 606-
2858; by fax at (202) 606-0824; or by e-mail at
pay-performance-policy@opm.gov.
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September 8, 2004 [Notices]
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request for Reclearance of a Revised Information Collection: OPM Forms 1496 and 1496A
SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Public
Law 104-13, May 22, 1995), this notice announces that the Office of
Personnel Management (OPM) has submitted to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) a request for reclearance of a revised information
collection. OPM Forms 1496 and 1496A, Application for Deferred
Retirement (Separations before October 1, 1956) and Application for
Deferred Retirement (Separations on or after October 1, 1956) are used
by eligible former Federal employees to apply for a deferred Civil
Service annuity. Two forms are needed because there was a major
revision in the law effective October 1, 1956; this affects the general
information provided with the forms.
For copies of this proposal, contact Mary Beth Smith-Toomey on
(202) 606-8358, FAX (202) 418-3251 or via e-mail to mbtoomey@opm.gov.
Please include a mailing address with your request.
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September 7, 2004 [Notices]
Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee; Open Committee Meetings
According to the provisions of section 10 of the Federal Advisory
Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), notice is hereby given that meetings of
the Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee will be held on:
Thursday, October 14, 2004; Thursday, October 28, 2004; Thursday,
November 18, 2004.
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