[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 61 (Monday, March 31, 2003)]
[Proposed Rules]
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[FR Doc No: 03-7539]


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OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT ETHICS

5 CFR Part 2641

RIN 3209-AA14


Post-Employment Conflict of Interest Restrictions; Correction

AGENCY: Office of Government Ethics (OGE).

ACTION: Proposed rule; correction.

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SUMMARY: In this document, OGE is correcting a few minor errors in 
certain sections of the proposed post-employment conflict of interest 
regulation, which was published by OGE in the Federal Register on 
Tuesday, February 18, 2003.

DATES: Comments on these corrections are invited and must be received 
on or before May 19, 2003.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Richard M. Thomas, Associate General 
Counsel, Office of Government Ethics, Suite 500, 1201 New York Avenue, 
NW., Washington, DC 20005-3917; Telephone: 202-208-8000; TDD: 202-208-
8025; FAX: 202-208-8037.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In this document, OGE is correcting three 
minor errors in the proposed rule document, which OGE published on 
February 18, 2003 at 68 FR 7843-7892 (as separate part II), concerning 
the post-Government employment conflict of interest restrictions of 18 
U.S.C. 207 applicable to former executive branch employees. The errors 
being corrected are as follows: a fifth example following paragraph (g) 
of proposed Sec.  2641.204 was inadvertently omitted; a note following 
paragraph (g) of proposed Sec.  2641.205 was mistakenly incorporated 
into the text of that section as proposed; and some unintended text was 
included in paragraph (e)(5)(iii)(E) of proposed Sec.  2641.301.

    Approved: March 24, 2003.
Amy L. Comstock,
Director, Office of Government Ethics.

    For the reasons set forth in the preamble, the Office of Government 
Ethics, is correcting the February 18, 2003 publication of the proposed 
rule on Post-Employment Conflict of Interest Restrictions, which was 
the subject of FR Doc. 03-3043, as follows:

PART 2641--POST-EMPLOYMENT CONFLICT OF INTEREST RESTRICTIONS


Sec.  2641.204  [Corrected]

    1. On page 7882, in the third column, the examples following 
paragraph (g) of Sec.  2641.204 are corrected by adding an Example 5 to 
read as follows:

    Example 5 to paragraph (g): A chemist serves in a senior 
employee position in the Agency for Clean Rivers. Subsequent to his 
termination from the position, the mission of the Agency for Clean 
Rivers is expanded and it is renamed the Agency for Clean Water. A 
number of employees from the Agency for Marine Life are transferred 
to the reorganized agency. If it is determined that the Agency for 
Clean Water is substantially the same entity from which the chemist 
terminated, the section 207(c) bar will apply with respect to the 
chemist's contacts with all of the employees of the Agency for Clean 
Water, including those employees who recently transferred from the 
Agency for Marine Life. He would not be barred from contacting an 
employee serving in one of the positions that had been transferred 
from the Agency for Clean Rivers to the Agency for Clean Land.


Sec.  2641.205  [Corrected]

    2. On page 7883, in the second column, the text of paragraph (g) of 
Sec.  2641.205 is corrected by removing the last sentence and by adding 
a note following paragraph (g) to read as follows:

    Note to paragraph (g): A communication made to an official 
described in 5 U.S.C. 5312-5316 can include a communication to a 
subordinate of such official with the intent that the information be 
conveyed directly to the official and attributed to the former very 
senior employee.

Sec.  2641.301  [Corrected]

    3. On page 7887, in the first column, the text of paragraph 
(e)(5)(iii)(E) of Sec.  2641.301 is corrected by removing the 
parentheses and words ``(or deputy or acting head)''.

[FR Doc. 03-7539 Filed 3-28-03; 8:45 am]
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