[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 134 (Wednesday, July 12, 2000)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 43211-43212]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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The President





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Executive Order 13162--Federal Career Intern Program
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                Executive Order 13162 of July 6, 2000

                
Federal Career Intern Program

                By the authority vested in me as President by the 
                Constitution and the laws of the United States of 
                America, including sections 3301 and 3302 of title 5, 
                United States Code, and in order to provide for the 
                recruitment and selection of exceptional employees for 
                careers in the public sector, it is hereby ordered as 
                follows:

                Section 1. There is hereby constituted the Federal 
                Career Intern Program (Program). The purpose of the 
                Program is to attract exceptional men and women to the 
                Federal workforce who have diverse professional 
                experiences, academic training, and competencies, and 
                to prepare them for careers in analyzing and 
                implementing public programs. ``Career Intern'' is a 
                generic term, and agencies may use occupational titles 
                as appropriate.

                Sec. 2. The Program is another step in the 
                Administration's effort to recruit the highest caliber 
                people to the Federal Government, develop their 
                professional abilities, and retain them in Federal 
                departments and agencies. Cabinet secretaries and 
                agency administrators should view the Program as 
                complementary to existing programs that provide career 
                enhancement opportunities for Federal employees, and 
                departments and agencies are encouraged to identify and 
                make use of those programs, as well as the new Program, 
                to meet department and agency needs.

                Sec. 3. (a) The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) 
                shall develop appropriate merit-based procedures for 
                the recruitment, screening, placement, and continuing 
                career development of Career Interns.

                    (b) In developing those procedures, the OPM shall 
                provide for such actions as deemed appropriate to 
                assure equal employment opportunity and the application 
                of appropriate veterans' preference criteria.

                Sec. 4. (a) A successful candidate shall be appointed 
                to a position in Schedule B of the excepted service at 
                the GS-5, 7, or 9 (and equivalent) or other trainee 
                level appropriate for the Program, unless otherwise 
                approved by the OPM. The appointment shall not exceed 2 
                years unless extended by the Federal department or 
                agency, with the concurrence of the OPM, for up to 1 
                additional year.

                    (b) Tenure for a Career Intern shall be governed by 
                the following principles and policies:

(1)

Assigned responsibilities shall be consistent with a Career Intern's 
competencies and career interests, and the purposes of the Program.

(2)

Continuation in the Program shall be contingent upon satisfactory 
performance by the Career Intern throughout the internship period.

(3)

Except as provided in subsections (4) and (5) of this section, service as a 
Career Intern confers no rights to further Federal employment in either the 
competitive or excepted service upon the expiration of the internship 
period.

(4)

Competitive civil service status may be granted to a Career Intern who 
satisfactorily completes the internship and meets all other requirements 
prescribed by the OPM.

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(5)

Within an agency, an employee who formerly held a career or career-
conditional appointment immediately before entering the Career Intern 
Program, and who fails to complete the Career Intern Program for reasons 
unrelated to misconduct or suitability, shall be placed in a career or 
career-conditional position in the current agency at no lower grade or pay 
than the one the employee left to accept the position in the Career Intern 
Program.

                Sec. 5. A Career Intern shall participate in a formal 
                program of training and job assignments to develop 
                competencies that the OPM identifies as core to the 
                Program, and the employing agency identifies as 
                appropriate to the agency's mission and needs.

                Sec. 6. The OPM shall prescribe such regulations as it 
                determines necessary to carry out the purpose of this 
                order.

                Sec. 7. The OPM shall provide oversight of the Program.

                Sec. 8. Executive Order 12596 of May 7, 1987, is 
                revoked.

                Sec. 9. Judicial Review. This order is intended only to 
                improve the internal management of the executive 
                branch. It does not create any right or benefit, 
                substantive or procedural, enforceable in law or 
                equity, by a party against the United States, its 
                agencies, its officers or employees, or any other 
                person.

                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    July 6, 2000.

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