Amendment to Civil Service Rule VI
Signed November 28, 1994·William J. Clinton·59 FR 61519
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Amends Civil Service Rule VI to update which Department of Agriculture positions are excluded from standard civil service protections and competitive hiring because of their confidential or policy-related nature. Following a reorganization of the Department under Public Law 103-354, it specifies that positions serving as State Executive Directors of the Consolidated Farm Service Agency, and State Directors or State Directors-at-Large for Rural Economic and Community Development, are to be listed in Schedule C, a category for policy-related positions exempted from competitive service rules, at all General Schedule grade levels. This order supersedes and replaces the earlier Executive Order 12300, which had previously governed this classification.
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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 having determined that it is necessary and warranted by conditions of good administration that certain positions in the Department of Agriculture continue to be excluded from the coverage of section 2302 of title 5, United States Code, and excepted from the competitive service because of their confidential, policy-determining, policy- making, or policy-advocating character, in order to ensure their deep involvement in the development and advocacy of Administration proposals and policies and to ensure their effective and vigorous implementation, and as a result of a reorganization of the Department of Agriculture carried out pursuant to Public Law 103- 354, it is hereby ordered
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Disposition
Supersedes: EO 12300, March 23, 1981
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The order, in full
Executive Order 12940 of November 28, 1994
Amendment to Civil Service Rule VI
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 having determined that it is
necessary and warranted by conditions of good
administration that certain positions in the Department
of Agriculture continue to be excluded from the
coverage of section 2302 of title 5, United States
Code, and excepted from the competitive service because
of their confidential, policy-determining, policy-
making, or policy-advocating character, in order to
ensure their deep involvement in the development and
advocacy of Administration proposals and policies and
to ensure their effective and vigorous implementation,
and as a result of a reorganization of the Department
of Agriculture carried out pursuant to Public Law 103-
354, it is hereby ordered that subsection (c) of
section 6.8 of Civil Service Rule VI (5 C.F.R. 6.8) is
revised to read as follows:
“(c) Within the Department of Agriculture, positions
the incumbents of which serve as State Executive
Directors of the Consolidated Farm Service Agency and
positions the incumbents of which serve as State
Directors or State Directors-at-Large for Rural
Economic and Community Development shall be listed in
Schedule C for all grades of the General Schedule.”
This order supersedes Executive Order No. 12300.
(Presidential Sig.)>
THE WHITE HOUSE,
November 28, 1994.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed November 28, 1994. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.