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(15) Qualifications. Students may be

evaluated by either agency-developed

standards or by the OPM qualifications

requirements for the target position.

Any OPM test requirements are waived.

Students are eligible for promotion.

(16) Benefits. (i) Students appointed

under this program earn annual and sick

leave and with no prior service or with

less than 5 years of prior civilian

service, are generally covered by the

Federal Employees Retirement System

(FERS) (see part 842 of this chapter).

(ii) For life insurance and health

benefits coverage refer to § 870.202 and

§ 890.102 of this chapter.

(17) Tuition assistance. Agencies may

use their training authority in 5 U.S.C.

Chapter 41 and part 410 of this chapter

to pay all or part of the students’

training expenses.

(18) Travel and transportation.

Agencies may pay for other expenses

directly related to training, such as

travel and transportation between duty

station and school, for participants.

(19) Reduction-in-force (RIF). (i)

Students are in excepted service Tenure

Group II for purposes of § 351.502. They

are accorded the same retention rights

as excepted service employees.

(ii) They may qualify for severance

pay if involuntarily separated under

part 550, subpart G of this chapter.

* * * * *

PART 315—CAREER AND CAREERCONDITIONAL EMPLOYMENT

4. The authority citation for part 315

continues to read:

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 1302, 3301, 3302; E.O.

10577, 3 CFR, 1954–1958 Comp., page 218,

unless otherwise noted.

Secs. 315.601 and 315.609 also issued

under 22 U.S.C. 3651 and 3652.

Secs. 315.602 and 315.604 also issued

under 5 U.S.C. 1104.

Sec. 315.603 also issued under 5 U.S.C.

8151.

Sec. 315.605 also issued under E.O. 12034,

3 CFR, 1978 Comp., p. 111.

Sec. 315.606 also issued under E.O. 11219,

3 CFR, 1964–1965 Comp., p. 303.

Sec. 315.607 also issued under 22 U.S.C.

2506.

Sec. 315.608 also issued under E.O. 12721,

3 CFR, 1990 Comp., p. 293.

Sec. 315.610 also issued under 5 U.S.C.

3304(d).

Sec. 315.710 also issued under E.O. 12596,

3 CFR, 1987 Comp., p. 229.

Subpart I also issued under 5 U.S.C. 3321,

E.O. 12107, 3 CFR, 1978 Comp., p. 264.

5. In § 315.201, paragraph (b)(1)(ix) is

revised to read as follows:

§ 315.201 Service requirement for career

tenure.

* * * * *

(b) * * *

(1) * * *

(ix) The date of nontemporary

excepted appointment under

§ 213.3202(b) of this chapter, provided

the student’s appointment is converted

to career or career-conditional

appointment under Executive Order

12015, with or without an intervening

term appointment, and without a break

in service of one day.

* * * * *

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OFFICE OF PERSONNEL

MANAGEMENT

5 CFR Part 410

RIN 3206–AF99

Federal Employee Training

AGENCY: Office of Personnel

Management.

ACTION: Correcting amendments.

SUMMARY: This document contains a

correction to the final regulations,

which were published in the Federal

Register of Tuesday, December 17, 1996

(61 FR 66189). The regulations

implemented policies related to the

training of Federal employees.

DATES: Effective on December 17, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Judith Lombard, 202–606–2431, email

jmlombar@opm.gov, or fax 202–606–

2394.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

The final regulations subject to this

correction affect the training of Federal

employees. The subsection on reports

contains an inaccurate reference about

records of agency training plans,

expenditures, and activities. The

correction removes a reference to a nonexistent subsection of the final

regulations and adds, in its place, a

reference to the correct subsection of the

final regulations.

Need for Correction

As published, the final regulations

contain an error which may prove to be

misleading and needs to be corrected.

List of Subjects in 5 CFR Part 410

Education, Government employees.

Accordingly, 5 CFR part 410 is

corrected by making the following

correcting amendment:

PART 410—TRAINING

1. The authority citation for part 410

continues to read as follows:

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 4101, et. seq.; E.O.

11348, 3 CFR, 1967 Comp., p. 275.

§ 410.701 (Corrected)

2. In § 410.701, remove the reference

to § 410.312, and add, in its place,

§ 410.311.

Office of Personnel Management.

Janice R. Lachance,

Director.

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OFFICE OF PERSONNEL

MANAGEMENT

5 CFR Part 591

RIN 3206–AH51

Cost-of-Living Allowance (Nonforeign

Areas)—Miscellaneous Changes

AGENCY: Office of Personnel

Management.

ACTION: Final rule.

SUMMARY: The Office of Personnel

Management is issuing regulations that

implement four changes in the

nonforeign area cost-of-living allowance

(COLA) program. One change removes

obsolete references to hiring authorities

no longer in use. A second change

clarifies the application of COLA

regulations to two pay systems linked to

or equivalent to the Senior Executive

Service. A third change clarifies the

application of COLA regulations to

employees under other pay systems.

The fourth change extends nonforeign

area post differentials to employees on

long-term temporary assignments in the

same manner as is provided by the

Department of State for employees in

foreign areas.

DATES: These regulations become

effective on December 2, 1997. These

regulations are applicable on the first

day of the first pay period beginning on

or after December 2, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul

B. Malerba at (202) 606–2838, FAX:

(202) 606–4264, or EMAIL:

cola@opm.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under

section 5941 of title 5, United States

Code, and Executive Order 10000, as

amended, certain Federal employees in

nonforeign areas outside the 48

contiguous States are eligible for cost-ofliving allowances (COLAs) when local

living costs are substantially higher than

those in the Washington, DC, area.

These COLAs are paid in Alaska,

Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin

Islands, and Guam and the

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana

Islands.