Governmentwide Accountability for Merit System Principles; Workforce Information
Signed January 18, 2001·William J. Clinton·66 FR 7853
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Amends the Civil Service Rules governing federal personnel management. It removes a subsection from Civil Service Rule V, restructures Civil Service Rule VII by eliminating one section and renumbering the others, and adds two new rules. The first new rule authorizes the Director of the Office of Personnel Management to require executive agencies, with some exceptions for intelligence agencies, to report workforce information about civilian employees according to standards the Director sets, consistent with the Privacy Act. The second new rule allows the Director to require agencies to maintain accountability systems for merit system principles, covering standards, measurement of effectiveness, and correction of deficiencies, and gives the Office of Personnel Management authority to review any agency's personnel management programs and report findings to the agency head and the President.
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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 1104(a)(1), 2301(c), and 3302 of title 5, United States Code, it is hereby ordered
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Executive Order 13197 of January 18, 2001
Governmentwide Accountability for Merit System
Principles; Workforce Information
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.
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.”
(Presidential Sig.)
THE WHITE HOUSE,
January 18, 2001.Reproduced from the Federal Register plain-text record, signed January 18, 2001. Typesetting artifacts are removed; no wording is changed.