[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 37, Number 3 (Monday, January 22, 2001)]
[Pages 192-193]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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 Executive Order 13197--Governmentwide Accountability for Merit System 
Principles; Workforce Information

January 18, 2001

    In an era of decentralization of Federal human resources management, 
it is increasingly important to ensure that merit system principles are 
applied consistently across the Federal Government and that the 
Executive branch has the ability to collect information about its 
workforce. The President and the public need to be assured that Federal 
agencies are monitoring the exercise of all human resources management 
authorities that have been delegated to them.
    Therefore, by the authority vested in me as President by the 
Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including 
sections 1104(a)(1), 2301(c), and 3302 of title 5, United States Code, 
it is hereby ordered as follows:
    Section 1. Civil Service Rule V (5 CFR Part 5) is amended in section 
5.2 by striking subsection (d).
    Sec. 2. Civil Service Rule VII (5 CFR Part 7) is amended--
 (a)         by striking section 7.2;
 (b)         by redesignating sections 7.3 and 7.4 as sections 7.2 and 
            7.3, respectively; and
 (c)         by amending the table of sections to read as follows:
    ``Sec.
    7.1 Discretion in filling vacancies.
    7.2 Reemployment rights.
    7.3 Citizenship.''
    Sec. 3. Two new Civil Service Rules are added at the end of Civil 
Service Rule VIII to read as follows:

``Part 9--Workforce Information (Rule IX)

    Sec.
    9.1 Definition.
    9.2 Reporting workforce information.
    Sec. 9.1 Definition.

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    As used in this rule, `Executive agency' means an Executive 
department, a Government corporation, and an independent establishment, 
as those terms are defined in chapter 1 of title 5, United States Code, 
but does not include the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Central 
Intelligence Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the National 
Imagery and Mapping Agency, the National Security Agency, and, as 
determined by the President, any Executive agency or unit within an 
Executive agency which has as its principal function the conduct of 
foreign intelligence or counterintelligence activities.
    Sec. 9.2 Reporting workforce information.
    The Director of the Office of Personnel Management may require all 
Executive agencies to report information relating to civilian employees, 
including positions and employees in the competitive, excepted, and 
Senior Executive services, in a manner and at times prescribed by the 
Director. The Director shall establish standards for workforce 
information submissions under this section, and agencies shall ensure 
that their submissions meet these standards consistent with the Privacy 
Act. The Director may exempt from this section a specific agency or 
group of employees when the Director determines that an exemption is 
appropriate because of special circumstances.

Part 10--Agency Accountability Systems; OPM Authority To Review 
Personnel Management Programs (Rule X)

    Sec.
    10.1 Definitions.
    10.2 Accountability systems.
    10.3 OPM authority to review personnel management programs and 
practices.
    Sec. 10.1 Definitions.
    For purposes of this rule--
    (a) `agency' means an Executive agency as defined in Rule IX, but 
does not include a Government corporation or the General Accounting 
Office; and
    (b) `merit system principles' means the principles for Federal 
personnel management that are set forth in section 2301(b) of title 5, 
United States Code.
    Sec. 10.2. Accountability systems.
    The Director of the Office of Personnel Management may require an 
agency to establish and maintain a system of accountability for merit 
system principles that (1) sets standards for applying the merit system 
principles, (2) measures the agency's effectiveness in meeting these 
standards, and (3) corrects any deficiencies in meeting these standards.
    Sec. 10.3. OPM authority to review personnel management programs and 
practices.
    The Office of Personnel Management may review the human resources 
management programs and practices of any agency and report to the head 
of the agency and the President on the effectiveness of these programs 
and practices, including whether they are consistent with the merit 
system principles.''
                                            William J. Clinton
 The White House,
 January 18, 2001.

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., January 24, 
2001]

Note: This Executive order was released by the Office of the Press 
Secretary on January 19, and it will be published in the Federal 
Register on January 25.