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[S. 1433 Reported in Senate (RS)]






                                                       Calendar No. 647
110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 1433

                          [Report No. 110-295]

To amend the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act to provide 
competitive status to certain Federal employees in the State of Alaska.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 21, 2007

 Ms. Murkowski introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
       referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

                             April 10, 2008

              Reported by Mr. Bingaman, with an amendment
  [Omit the part struck through and insert the part printed in italic]

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act to provide 
competitive status to certain Federal employees in the State of Alaska.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Thomas P. O'Hara Public Land Career 
Opportunity Act of 2007''.

<DELETED>SEC. 2. COMPETITIVE STATUS FOR CERTAIN FEDERAL EMPLOYEES IN 
              THE STATE OF ALASKA.</DELETED>

<DELETED>    Section 1308 of the Alaska National Interest Lands 
Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 3198) is amended--</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (1) by redesignating subsections (c) and (d) as 
        subsections (d) and (e), respectively; and</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    (2) by inserting after subsection (b) the 
        following:</DELETED>
<DELETED>    ``(c) Competitive Status.--An individual appointed to a 
permanent position under subsection (a) shall be converted to 
competitive status after--</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    ``(1) if the appointment is full time, the 
        completion of 2 years of competitive and satisfactory full time 
        service; or</DELETED>
        <DELETED>    ``(2) if the appointment is less than full time, 
        the period that is equivalent to 2 years of competitive and 
        satisfactory full time service.''.</DELETED>

SEC. 2. COMPETITIVE STATUS FOR CERTAIN FEDERAL EMPLOYEES IN THE STATE 
              OF ALASKA.

    Section 1308 of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act 
(16 U.S.C. 3198) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(e) Competitive Status.--
            ``(1) In general.--Nothing in subsection (a) provides that 
        any person hired pursuant to the program established under that 
        subsection is not eligible for competitive status in the same 
        manner as any other employee hired as part of the competitive 
        service.
            ``(2) Redesignation of certain positions.--
                    ``(A) Persons serving in original positions.--Not 
                later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this 
                subsection, with respect to any person hired into a 
                permanent position pursuant to the program established 
                under subsection (a) who is serving in that position as 
                of the date of enactment of this subsection, the 
                Secretary shall redesignate that position and the 
                person serving in that position as having been part of 
                the competitive service as of the date that the person 
                was hired into that position.
                    ``(B) Persons no longer serving in original 
                positions.--With respect to any person who was hired 
                pursuant to the program established under subsection 
                (a) that is no longer serving in that position as of 
                the date of enactment of this subsection--
                            ``(i) the person may provide to the 
                        Secretary a request for redesignation of the 
                        service as part of the competitive service that 
                        includes evidence of the employment; and
                            ``(ii) not later than 90 days of the 
                        submission of a request under clause (i), the 
                        Secretary shall redesignate the service of the 
                        person as being part of the competitive 
                        service.''.
                                                       Calendar No. 647

110th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                                S. 1433

                          [Report No. 110-295]

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                                 A BILL

To amend the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act to provide 
competitive status to certain Federal employees in the State of Alaska.

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                             April 10, 2008

                       Reported with an amendment