[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 223 (Friday, November 19, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63348-63349]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-30219]


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OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT


Proposed Collection, Comment Request; SF 86 Related Certification 
Form

AGENCY: Office of Personnel Management.

ACTION: Proposed collection; comment request.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. 
L. 104-13) and 5 CFR 1320.5(a)(I)(vi), this notice announces that OPM 
intends to submit to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a 
request for clearance of an information collection device and solicit 
comments on it.
    The Standard Form 86 (SF 86), Questionnaire for National Security 
Positions, is completed by persons performing, or seeking to perform, 
national security duties for the Federal Government. This information 
collection is used by the Office of Personnel Management and by other 
Federal agencies to initiate the background investigation required to 
determine placement in national security positions in accordance with 
42 U.S.C. 2165, 22 U.S.C. 2585, E.O. 10450, Security Requirements for 
Government Employment, issued April 27, 1953 and E.O. 12968, Access to 
Classified Information, issued August 2, 1995.
    There are many situations where individuals are required to fill 
out a new SF 86 when the sole purpose is to determine if any 
information on a previously executed SF 86 has changed. This requires 
extensive execution even if nothing has changed.
    The information collection being proposed is a certification device 
(tentatively titled SF 86C) that allows the reporting of changes in 
previously reported information on the SF 86. This certification will 
be in lieu of executing an SF 86 and will allow the individual to 
indicate that there have been no changes in the data provided on the 
most recently filed SF 86, or, where there are changes, to provide the 
new/changed information. No investigation will be initiated based 
solely on the execution of this form. However,

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information provided on this form may provide cause to require 
execution of a new SF 86 in order for an investigation to be scheduled. 
This is no different than if an SF 86 had been used in the first place 
to ``update'' information.
    This request for comments is not meant to elicit comments on the 
questions as they appear on the SF 86. This certification device will 
ask for nothing more, or less, than is asked for on the current SF 86 
which is approved for use through June 30, 2001.
    The number of respondents annually who are not Federal employees is 
expected to be 75,000 with total reporting hours of 25,000.
    Comments are particularly invited on:

--Whether this collection device has a practical utility;
--Whether our estimate of the public burden of this collection device 
is accurate and based on valid assumptions and methodology; and,
--Ways we can minimize the burden of collection of information on those 
who respond through the use of appropriate technological collection 
techniques or other forms of information technology.

    To obtain copies of this proposal, please contact Mary Beth Smith-
Toomey at (202) 606-8358 or by E-Mail to [email protected]

DATES: Comments on this proposal should be received on or before 
January 18, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Submit or deliver comments on this proposal to: John H. 
Crandell, Investigations Service, Office of Personnel Management, Room 
5416, 1900 E Street, NW, Washington, DC 20415-4000 or via fax to 202-
606-2390, or by E-Mail to [email protected].

U.S. Office of Personnel Management.
Janice R. Lachance,
Director.
[FR Doc. 99-30219 Filed 11-18-99; 8:45 am]
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