[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 170 (Wednesday, September 3, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46504-46505]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-23298]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
Office of the Secretary
[Docket No. FR-4278-D-01]
Delegation of Personnel Management Authority
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HUD.
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ACTION: Notice of delegation of authority.
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SUMMARY: In this notice, the Secretary delegates authority to perform
personnel management functions. Authority is delegated to the Deputy
Secretary with concurrences by the Chief of Staff or by the General
Counsel, as specified.
EFFECTIVE DATE: August 27, 1997.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Virginia Stephens, Department of
Housing and Urban Development, 451 Seventh Street, SW, Washington, DC
20410, (202) 708-0622. (This is not a toll-free number.) For hearing/
speech-impaired individual, this number may be accessed via TTY by
calling the Federal Information Relay Service at 1-800-877-8399.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Secretary is making these changes to
assist in the management of the Department and the carrying out of its
mission. In this document, the Secretary delegates personnel management
authorities, as specified below, to the Deputy Secretary, with the
concurrence of the Chief of Staff; and to the Deputy Secretary, with
the concurrence of either the Chief of Staff or the General Counsel in
certain actions involving Senior Executive Service employees.
Accordingly, the Secretary delegates authority as follows:
Section A. Authority Delegated With Respect to Specific Personnel
Actions
The Deputy Secretary, with the concurrence of the Chief of Staff or
the General Counsel, is delegated the authority to:
1. Select candidates for positions at grades GS-14 and GS-15.
2. Make an Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) assignment.
3. Detail an employee at grades GS-14 or GS-15 to another HUD
position in increments of up to 120 days.
4. Detail an employee to a position in another Federal agency in
increments of up to 120 days.
5. Detail an employee to:
a. the Panama Canal Commission,
b. an international organization, or
c. a foreign government.
6. Approve/disapprove a temporary work-at-home arrangement.
7. Promote employees to, demote employees voluntarily from, or
reassign employees to positions at the GS-14 or GS-15 level.
8. Make time-limited promotions to the GS-14 or GS-15 level to meet
temporary needs.
9. Noncompetitively promote a GS-14 or GS-15 employee, temporarily
or permanently, to the highest grade previously held up to the GS-15
level.
10. Authorize payment of up to 25% of basic pay as a recruitment
bonus.
11. Authorize payment of up to 25% of basic pay as a relocation
bonus.
12. Authorize payment of up to 25% of basic pay as a retention
allowance.
13. Approve/disapprove a reduction-in-force.
14. Approve/disapprove a transfer of function.
Section B. Authority Delegated With Respect to Senior Executive
Service and Schedule C and Other Actions
The Deputy Secretary, with the concurrence of either the Chief of
Staff or the General Counsel; or the General Counsel with a concurrence
of the Chief of Staff are delegated the authority to:
1. Select, terminate, promote, reclassify, or extend SES positions.
2. Make selections for Secretary's Representative and State/Area
coordinator positions.
3. Make selections for Administrative Law Judge positions, Senior
Level positions, and positions on the Board of Contract Appeals.
4. Make selections for experts or consultant positions.
5. Select, terminate, promote, reclassify, or extend Schedule C
(political) appointees.
6. Detail or reassign SESers or Schedule C appointees to other SES
or Schedule C positions.
7. Detail non-SESers to SES positions.
8. Recertify, conditionally recertify, or not recertify career
SESers.
9. Approve/disapprove Presidential Rank Award nominations for
SESers.
10. Approve/disapprove SES performance awards.
11. Approve/disapprove SES performance ratings.
12. During the notice period of an adverse action: assign SESer to
other duties; approve annual or sick leave or leave without pay; place
SESer in absent without leave status; or place SESer on excused
absence.
13. Remove or suspend an SES employee for misconduct, neglect of
duty, malfeasance, failure to accept a directed reassignment, or
failure to accompany a position in a transfer of function.
Section C. Authority To Redelegate
The authority delegated under Sections A and B may be redelegated
to the Deputy General Counsel for Programs and Regulations. The
authority delegated under number 6 of Section A may be redelegated to
the Assistant Secretary for Administration.
Section D. Authority Modified and Superseded
This delegation of authority supersedes all prior delegations
inconsistent with the authority delegated herein. In addition, this
delegation of authority specifically modifies the Delegation of
Authority to the Assistant Secretary for Administration, dated March
14, 1966, published in the Federal Register at 31 FR 10754 (August 12,
1966); the Delegation of Authority to the Assistant Secretary for
Administration, published in the Federal Register on June 5, 1975 at 40
FR 24228; and the Delegation of Concurrent Authority to the Deputy
Secretary, published in the Federal Register on January 1, 1996 at 61
FR 353.
Authority: Sec. 7(d), Department of Housing and Urban
Development Act, 42 U.S.C. 3535(d).
Dated: August 27, 1997.
Andrew Cuomo,
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
[FR Doc. 97-23298 Filed 9-2-97; 8:45 am]
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