[Title 41 CFR 300]
[Code of Federal Regulations (annual edition) - July 1, 2002 Edition]
[Title 41 - PUBLIC CONTRACTS AND PROPERTY MANAGEMENT]
[Subtitle F - Federal Travel Regulation System]
[Chapter 300 - GENERAL]
[Subchapter A - INTRODUCTION]
[Part 300 - 2--HOW TO USE THE FTR]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office]
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PART 300-2--HOW TO USE THE FTR--Table of Contents
Subpart A--General
Sec.
300-2.1 What formats exist in the FTR?
Subpart B--Question and Answer Format
300-2.20 What is the purpose of the question & answer format?
300-2.21 How is the rule expressed in the question & answer format?
300-2.22 Who is subject to the FTR?
300-2.23 How is the user addressed in the FTR?
Subpart C--Title and Narrative Format
300-2.70 How is the rule expressed in the title and narrative format?
Authority: 5 U.S.C. 5707; 5 U.S.C. 5738; 5 U.S.C. 5741-5742; 20
U.S.C. 905(a); 31 U.S.C. 1353; 40 U.S.C. 486(c); 49 U.S.C. 40118; E.O.
11609, 3 CFR 1971-1975 Comp., p. 586.
Source: 63 FR 15951, Apr. 1, 1998, unless otherwise noted.
Subpart A--General
Sec. 300-2.1 What formats exist in the FTR?
The FTR is written in two formats--the question & answer format and
the title and narrative format.
Subpart B--Question & Answer Format
Sec. 300-2.20 What is the purpose of the question & answer format?
The Q&A format is an effective way to engage the reader and to break
the information into manageable pieces.
Sec. 300-2.21 How is the rule expressed in the question and answer format?
The rule is expressed in both the question and answer.
Sec. 300-2.22 Who is subject to the FTR?
Employees and agencies. Since the user may be an employee or an
agency, portions of the FTR have been separated into employee and agency
sections. However, while the employee provisions are addressed to the
employee, the rules expressed in those provisions apply to the agency as
well. The following lists the relevant employee and agency sections of
the FTR:
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The employee And the agency
For provisions are provisions are
contained in contained in
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Chapter 301................... Subchapters A, B, Subchapter D.
and C.
Chapter 302................... Subparts A, B, C, Subparts B, C, D, E,
D, E, F, and G. F and G.
Chapter 303................... N/A.............. Subparts A, B, C, D,
E and F.
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[63 FR 15951, Apr. 1, 1998, as amended by FTR Amdt. 76, 64 FR 2433, Jan.
14, 1999; FTR Amdt. 98, 66 FR 58195, Nov. 20, 2001; 67 FR 7219, Feb. 15,
2002]
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Sec. 300-2.23 How is the user addressed in the FTR?
The FTR asks questions in the first person, as the user would. It
then answers the questions in the second and third person. In the
employee sections, the employee is addressed in the singular, and in the
agency sections, the agency is addressed in the plural. The following
describes how employee and agency are addressed in both sections:
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The employee is referred to And the agency is
When you are in the And you are looking at a using referred to using
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Employee section............. Question................ I, me, or my................. Agency.
Answer.................. You or your.................. Agency.
Agency section............... Question................ Employee..................... We, us, or our.
Answer.................. Employee..................... You or your.
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Subpart C--Title and Narrative Format
Sec. 300-2.70 How is the rule expressed in the title and narrative format?
The rule is in the narrative. The title serves only as a tool to
determine the subject of the rule.