[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 122 (Friday, June 25, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 34303]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-16153]
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OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
Submission for OMB Review: Comment Request; Review of a Revised
Information Collection: Declaration for Federal Employment, Optional
Form 306
AGENCY: Office of Personnel Management.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub.
L. 104-13), this notice announces that the Office of Personnel
Management has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget a
request for clearance of a revised information collection.
To streamline the application process and reduce paperwork, we are
planning to eliminate the Applicant's Statement of Selective Service
Registration Form (64 FR 59) and add a question about Selective Service
registration to the OF 306. We plan to add the following question about
Selective Service Registration, which is currently on the Applicant's
Statement of Selective Service Registration to the Optional Form 306:
``If you are a male born after December 31, 1959, and are at least 18
years of age, civil service employment law (5 U.S.C. 3328) requires
that you must be registered with the Selective Service System, unless
you meet certain exemptions. Have you registered with the Selective
Service? Yes ____ No ____. If No, describe your reason(s) in item
____.''
The OF 306 is completed by applicants who are under serious
consideration for employment. It is completed early enough in the
employment process that if an agency encounters an applicant who did
not register with the Selective Service, the agency would have
sufficient time to determine if non-registration was knowing and
willful prior to making a final employment decision.
DATES: Comments on this proposal should be received on or before August
24, 1999.
ADDRESSES: Send or deliver written comments to Richard A. Ferris,
Associate Director for Investigations, Office of Personnel Management,
Room 5416, 1900 E Street NW, Washington, DC 20415-4000.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kristen Jenkinson-McDermott on (202)
606-2133, or FAX (202) 606-2390, or e-mail [email protected].
SUPPLEMENATARY INFORMATION: OPM's current regulations, written in 1987,
contain a self-certification statement of Selective Service
registration to be completed by applicants and employees. Agencies
reproduce this statement on a separate form. In 1987, the application
for Federal Employment, Standard Form 171, did not contain a question
about Selective Service registration. Therefore, a separate form was
necessary to collect the information required by 5 U.S.C. 3328. Today,
agencies use many different forms when considering employees for
Federal jobs: The resume or the Optional Application for Federal
Employment (OF 612), used to determine basic qualifications for
positions, and a Declaration for Federal Employment (OF 306), used to
determine an applicant's acceptability and suitability for Federal
positions.
It is estimated that 474,000 individuals will respond annually for
a total burden of 118,500 hours.
Comments are particularly invited on:
--Whether this collection of information is necessary for the proper
performance of functions of the Office of Personnel Management.
--Whether our estimate of the public burden of this collection is
accurate, and based on valid assumptions and methodology; and
--Ways in which we can minimize the burden of the collection of
information on those who are to respond, through use of the appropriate
technological collection techniques or other forms of information
technology.
For copies of this proposal please contact Mary Beth Smith-Toomey
at (202) 606-8358, or Fax (202) 418-3251, or by e-mail to
[email protected].
Janice R. Lachance,
Director.
[FR Doc. 99-16153 Filed 6-24-99; 8:45 am]
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