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OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT

 

Notification of Placement Program Study

AGENCY: Office of Personnel Management.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Office of Personnel Management is initiating a study on 
the feasibility of establishing a mandatory interagency placement 
program for Federal employees separated by reduction in force. This 
advance notice invites written comments from all interested parties.

DATES: Written comments will be considered if received no later than 
January 6, 1994.

ADDRESSES: Send written comments to Leonard R. Klein, Associate 
Director for Career Entry, Office of Personnel Management, Room 6F08, 
1900 E Street NW., Washington, DC 20145-0001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Diane Bohling, 202-606-0960, FAX 202-606-2329.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Public Law 103-337, the National Defense 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995, was signed into law by the 
President of the United States on October 5, 1994. Section 1066 of this 
law requires the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) 
to conduct a study on the feasibility of establishing a mandatory 
interagency placement program for Federal employees affected by a 
reduction in force and report the findings to Congress no later than 
April 5, 1995. This program would supplement the existing Interagency 
Placement Program and internal placement efforts conducted by 
individual agencies. For purposes of this study, the law defines an 
interagency placement program as one that requires an agency to offer a 
position to an employee of another agency affected by reduction in 
force if the position cannot be filled through a placement program of 
the agency in which the position is located, the employee to whom the 
offer is made is qualified for the offered position, and the geographic 
location of the offered position is within the commuting area of the 
residence of the employee or the employee's present or last-held 
position. Such a program would not affect internal agency placement 
programs including, but not limited to, merit promotion, upward 
mobility, and reassignments.
    Under the law, the term ``agency'' means an Executive agency as 
defined in section 105 of title 5, United States Code, except that such 
term does not include the General Accounting Office. The term ``Federal 
employees affected by reductions in force'' means Federal employees who 
are separated, or are scheduled to be separated, from service under 
reduction in force pursuant to regulations prescribed under section 
3502 of title 5, United States Code, or procedures established under 
section 3595 of such title. The law provides that OPM conduct this 
study in consultation with the Secretary of Defense and seek comments 
from the heads of all appropriate Federal agencies.
    This notice is to request input from all interested parties on this 
issue and any other options to assist Federal employees affected by 
downsizing. Information gained during this study will be used to submit 
a report of findings to Congress and may result in proposals for 
regulatory or statutory changes.
James B. King,
Director.
[FR Doc. 94-27438 Filed 11-4-94; 8:45 am]
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