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    <AgencyName>Office of Personnel Management</AgencyName>
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        <Address>1900 E Street NW., Washington, DC 20415-0001</Address>
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          <Footer>[For the Office of Personnel Management statement of organization, see the Federal Register of Jan. 5, 1979, 44 FR 1501]</Footer>
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            <NameColumnValue>Katherine Archuleta</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Ann Marie Habershaw</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Patrick E. McFarland</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Kamala Vasagam</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Dennis D. Coleman</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Mark Reinhold, Acting</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Mark W. Lambert</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Kenneth Zawondy, Jr.</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Merton Miller</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Joseph Kennedy</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Keith Willingham</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Angela Kouters</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Jackie Koszczuk</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Jonathan Foley</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Jozetta Robinson</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>William N. Patterson</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Suzanne Logan</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Lashonn Woodland, Acting</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Janet Barnes</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Donna Seymour</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Justin R. Johnson</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Veronica E. Villalobos</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Sheldon I. Friedman</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Chair, Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Steven M. Niu</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Actuary</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>John O'Brien</NameColumnValue>
            <TitleColumnValue>Director, Healthcare and Insurance</TitleColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Angela Bailey</NameColumnValue>
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        <Paragraph MissionStatmentId="118" SortOrder="1">The Office of Personnel Management administers a merit system to ensure compliance with personnel laws and regulations and assists agencies in recruiting, examining, and promoting people on the basis of their knowledge and skills, regardless of their race, religion, sex, political influence, or other nonmerit factors.</Paragraph>
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              <Paragraph>The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) was created as an independent establishment by Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1978 (5 U.S.C. app.), pursuant to Executive Order 12107 of December 28, 1978. Many of the functions of the former United States Civil Service Commission were transferred to OPM.</Paragraph>
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          <Heading>Employee Benefits</Heading>
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              <Paragraph>OPM manages numerous activities that directly affect the well-being of the Federal employee and indirectly enhance employee effectiveness. These include health benefits, life insurance, and retirement benefits.</Paragraph>
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          <Heading>Examining and Staffing</Heading>
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              <Paragraph>The Office of Personnel Management is responsible for providing departments and agencies with technical assistance and guidance in examining competitive positions in the Federal civil service for General Schedule grades 1 through 15 and Federal Wage system positions. In addition, OPM is responsible for the following duties: providing testing and examination services, at the request of an agency, on a reimbursable basis; establishing basic qualification standards for all occupations; certifying agency delegated examining units to conduct examining; providing employment information for competitive service positions; and providing policy direction and guidance on promotions, reassignments, appointments in the excepted and competitive services, reinstatements, temporary and term employment, veterans preference, workforce planning and reshaping, organizational design, career transition, and other staffing provisions.</Paragraph>
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          <Heading>Executive Resources</Heading>
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              <Paragraph>OPM leads in the selection, management, and development of Federal executives. OPM provides policy guidance, consulting services, and technical support on Senior Executive Service (SES) recruitment, selection, succession planning, mobility performance, awards, and removals. It reviews agency nominations for SES career appointments and administers the Qualifications Review Boards that certify candidates' executive qualifications. It manages SES, senior-level, and scientific and professional space allocations to agencies, administers the Presidential Rank Awards program, and conducts orientation sessions for newly appointed executives. In addition, OPM manages three interagency residential development and training centers for executives and managers.</Paragraph>
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          <Heading>Investigations</Heading>
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                <Footer>For further information, contact the Office of the Inspector General. Phone, 202-606-1200.</Footer>
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              <Paragraph>The Office of the Inspector General conducts comprehensive and independent audits, investigations, and evaluations relating to OPM programs and operations. It is responsible for administrative actions against health care providers who commit sanctionable offenses with respect to the Federal Employees' Health Benefits Program or other Federal programs.</Paragraph>
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          <Heading>Personnel Systems</Heading>
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              <Paragraph>OPM provides leadership and guidance to agencies on systems to support the manager's personnel management responsibilities. These include the following: white- and blue-collar pay systems, including SES and special occupational pay systems; geographical adjustments and locality payments; special rates to address recruitment and retention problems; allowances and differentials, including recruitment and relocation bonuses, retention allowances, and hazardous duty/environmental pay; and premium pay; annual and sick leave, court leave, military leave, leave transfer and leave bank programs, family and medical leave, excused absence, holidays, and scheduling of work, including flexible and compressed work schedules; performance management, covering appraisal systems, performance pay and awards, and incentive awards for suggestions, inventions, and special acts; classification policy and standards for agencies to determine the series and grades for Federal jobs; labor-management relations, including collective bargaining, negotiability, unfair labor practices, labor-management cooperation, and consulting with unions on Governmentwide issues; systems and techniques for resolving disputes with employees; quality of worklife initiatives, such as employee health and fitness, work and family, AIDS in the workplace, and employee assistance programs; human resources development, including leadership and administration of the Human Resources Development Council and the Government Performance and Results Act interest group; the Training and Management Assistance program, to help agencies develop training and human resources management solutions, including workforce planning and succession management strategies, e-learning applications, traditional classroom training materials, compensation and performance management systems, and other customized products; information systems to support and improve Federal personnel management decisionmaking; and Governmentwide instructions for personnel processing and recordkeeping and for release of personnel data under the Freedom of Information Act and the Privacy Act.</Paragraph>
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              <Paragraph>OPM also provides administrative support to special advisory bodies, including the Federal Prevailing Rate Advisory Committee, the Federal Salary Council, and the Presidential Advisory Committee on Expanding Training Opportunities.</Paragraph>
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          <Heading>Oversight</Heading>
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              <Paragraph>OPM assesses human capital management Governmentwide and within agencies to gather information for policy development and program refinement, ensure compliance with law and regulation, and enhance agency capability for human resources management accountability. Agency accountability systems help ensure that human capital decisions are consistent with merit principles and that human capital strategies are aligned with mission accomplishment. OPM also works with agencies to find better and more strategic ways to manage Federal human capital.</Paragraph>
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          <Heading>Workforce Diversity</Heading>
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              <Paragraph>OPM provides leadership, direction, and policy for Governmentwide affirmative recruiting programs for women, minorities, individuals with disabilities, and veterans. It also provides leadership, guidance, and technical assistance to promote merit and equality in systemic workforce recruitment, employment, training, and retention. In addition, OPM gathers, analyzes, and maintains statistical data on the diversity of the Federal workforce and prepares evaluation reports for Congress and others on individual agency and Governmentwide progress toward full workforce representation for all Americans in the Federal sector.</Paragraph>
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          <Heading>Other Personnel Programs</Heading>
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              <Paragraph>OPM coordinates the temporary assignment of employees between Federal agencies and State, local, and Indian tribal governments, institutions of higher education, and other eligible nonprofit organizations for up to 2 years, for work of mutual benefit to the participating organizations. It administers the Presidential Management Intern Program, which provides 2-year, excepted appointments with Federal agencies to recipients of graduate degrees in appropriate disciplines. In addition, the Office of Personnel Management administers the Federal Merit System Standards, which apply to certain grant-aided State and local programs.</Paragraph>
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          <Heading>Federal Executive Boards</Heading>
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              <Paragraph>Federal Executive Boards (FEBs) were established by Presidential memorandum on November 10, 1961, to improve internal Federal management practices and to provide a central focus for Federal participation in civic affairs in major metropolitan centers of Federal activity. They carry out their functions under OPM supervision and control.</Paragraph>
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              <Paragraph>FEBs serve as a means for disseminating information within the Federal Government and for promoting discussion of Federal policies and activities of importance to all Federal executives in the field. Each Board is composed of heads of Federal field offices in the metropolitan area. A chairman is elected annually from among the membership to provide overall leadership to the Board's operations. Committees and task forces carry out interagency projects consistent with the Board's mission.</Paragraph>
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              <Paragraph>Federal Executive Boards are located in 28 metropolitan areas that are important centers of Federal activity. These areas are as follows: Albuquerque-Santa Fe, NM; Atlanta, GA; Baltimore, MD; Boston, MA; Buffalo, NY; Chicago, IL; Cincinnati, OH; Cleveland, OH; Dallas-Fort Worth, TX; Denver, CO; Detroit, MI; Honolulu, HI; Houston, TX; Kansas City, MO; Los Angeles, CA; Miami, FL; Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN; New Orleans, LA; New York, NY; Newark, NJ; Oklahoma City, OK; Philadelphia, PA; Pittsburgh, PA; Portland, OR; St. Louis, MO; San Antonio, TX; San Francisco, CA; and Seattle, WA.</Paragraph>
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                <Footer>For further information, contact the Director for Federal Executive Board Operations, Office of Personnel Management, Room 5524, 1900 E Street NW., Washington, DC 20415-0001. Phone, 202-606-1000.</Footer>
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              <Paragraph>Federal Executive Associations or Councils have been locally organized in approximately 65 other metropolitan areas to perform functions similar to the Federal Executive Boards but on a lesser scale of organization and activity.</Paragraph>
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          <WebAddress>http://www.opm.gov/about-us/doing-business-with-opm/contracting-opportunities/</WebAddress>
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        <Header>Contracts</Header>
        <Paragraph>For information, contact the Chief, Contracting Division, Office of Personnel Management, Washington, DC 20415-0071. Phone, 202-606-2240.</Paragraph>
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          <WebAddress>http://www.opm.gov/</WebAddress>
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        <Header>Employment</Header>
        <Paragraph>Information on Federal employment and current job openings Governmentwide is available on OPM's home page. Select "Job Seekers" from the list to access the Federal Government's largest online jobs portal. For information on employment opportunities within OPM, contact the Director of Human Resources. Phone, 202-606-2400.</Paragraph>
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          <WebAddress>http://www.opm.gov/news/reports-publications/publications-database/</WebAddress>
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        <Header>Publications</Header>
        <Paragraph>The Chief, Publications Services Division, can provide information on Federal personnel management publications. Phone, 202-606-1822.</Paragraph>
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      <Footer>For further information, contact the Office of Communications, Office of Personnel Management, 1900 E Street NW., Washington, DC 20415-0001. Phone, 202-606-1800. TTY, 202-606-2532.</Footer>
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