[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 10 (Wednesday, January 15, 1997)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 2048-2052]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-961]


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Proposed Rules
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This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER contains notices to the public of 
the proposed issuance of rules and regulations. The purpose of these 
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Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 10 / Wednesday, January 15, 1997 / 
Proposed Rules

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OFFICE OF GOVERNMENT ETHICS

5 CFR Part 2634

RIN 3209-AA00


Executive Branch Financial Disclosure, Qualified Trusts, and 
Certificates of Divestiture

AGENCY: Office of Government Ethics (OGE).

ACTION: Proposed rule.

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SUMMARY: The Office of Government Ethics is proposing to amend the 
regulation governing confidential financial disclosure for executive 
branch employees, to: update the standardized confidential disclosure 
report form designation by adding reference to the new OGE Form 450, 
which is replacing the old SF 450; and authorize all executive branch 
agencies to use a standardized certificate of no new interests (OGE 
Optional Form 450-A) as an alternative procedure in lieu of OGE Form 
450, for regular employee annual confidential disclosure filers who can 
make the required certifications.

DATES: Comments are invited and must be received on or before March 17, 
1997.

ADDRESSES: Send comments to the Office of Government Ethics, Suite 500, 
1201 New York Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20005-3917, Attention: G. Sid 
Smith. Copies of the draft proposed OGE Optional Form 450-A are 
available by contacting Mr. Smith or Mr. Gressman at OGE, telephone: 
202-208-8000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: G. Sid Smith, Associate General 
Counsel, Office of Government Ethics; telephone: 202-208-8000; TDD:202-
208-8025; FAX: 202-208-8037; Internet E-mail address: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#4732342820220728202269202831"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="ff8a8c90989abf90989ad1989089">[email protected]</span></a> 
(for E-mail messages, the subject line should include the following 
reference--Proposed Certificate of No New Interests Regulation).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

    On April 7, 1992, the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) published a 
new financial disclosure regulation for the executive branch, as 
codified at 5 CFR part 2634, which implemented provisions of the Ethics 
Reform Act of 1989 and Executive Order 12674 (as modified by E.O. 
12731), to reauthorize both a public and a confidential financial 
disclosure system for certain executive branch employees. See 57 FR 
11800-11830, as corrected at 57 FR 21854-21855 and 62605. Among other 
subsequent revisions, OGE amended Sec. 2634.601 of that regulation on 
July 21, 1993, to supply the then-current designation, Standard Form 
(SF) 450, for the form used by confidential disclosure filers 
throughout the executive branch. See 58 FR 38911-38913. On November 30, 
1993, OGE also amended Sec. 2634.907 of that regulation, to exempt from 
the confidential reporting requirement certain deposit accounts, money 
market funds and accounts, and U.S. Government obligations and 
securities. See 58 FR 63023-63024.
    Those exemptions, along with several clarifying and simplifying 
features, were incorporated into a new OGE Form 450, after appropriate 
Federal Register paperwork notices on September 1 and December 6, 1995, 
and clearance through the Office of Management and Budget. See 60 FR 
45722-45723 and 62469-62471. A camera-ready copy of the new OGE Form 
450 was distributed by OGE on February 27, 1996, to all designated 
agency ethics officials, for local copying and immediate use as a 
replacement for the SF 450.
    The proposed regulatory amendment that is being published herein 
would update 5 CFR 2634.601, to reflect the new form's designation as 
OGE Form 450. Supplies of the old SF 450 that are held by agencies or 
obtained from the Federal Supply Service may continue to be used first, 
if agencies prefer, until the old SF 450's clearance under the 
Paperwork Reduction Act expires on August 31, 1997. The form 
designation in the regulation is proposed to be amended, to reflect the 
phaseout of the SF 450 and its ongoing replacement with OGE Form 450, 
which has already become the primary format in general use.
    The second purpose of this proposed regulatory amendment would be 
to authorize all executive branch agencies to use a standardized 
certificate of no new interests as an alternative procedure in lieu of 
OGE Form 450, for regular employee annual confidential disclosure 
filers who can make the required certifications. The current regulation 
provides at 5 CFR 2634.905 that agencies may exclude certain employees 
from confidential financial disclosure reporting, even though their 
positions have been designated for filing. To exclude such employees, 
an agency must determine that, because of the nature of their duties, 
either (a) the possibility of a conflict is remote, or (b) their duties 
involve a low level of responsibility, or (c) the use of an alternative 
procedure, approved in writing by OGE, is adequate to prevent 
conflicts. The proposed regulatory amendment being published herein 
concerns alternative procedures, and would authorize all executive 
branch agencies to use a new optional alternative certificate for 
certain regular employees.
    Under authority of 5 CFR 2634.905(c), approximately 20 individual 
departments and agencies have already received written approval from 
OGE for alternative procedures which were found to be adequate in 
preventing conflicts, either as supplements to or in lieu of the SF/OGE 
Form 450. Some of these alternatives require affirmative disclosure of 
certain financial interests, and some have taken the form of a 
certificate of no conflict between the employee s official duties and 
outside financial interests (the latter being used primarily for 
special Government employees who serve for a short period of time). All 
of these previously approved agency-specific alternatives would remain 
valid and unaffected by the proposed additional alternative certificate 
that this regulatory amendment would authorize as an option for all 
executive branch agencies.
    In response to a Cabinet-level department s request in 1995, OGE 
approved on an experimental basis the use of a certificate of no new 
interests in lieu of filing an annual SF/OGE Form 450, by that 
department s regular employees who would otherwise have to file 
confidential financial disclosure reports. That proposal offered a 
unique opportunity to test a new alternative not

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previously authorized for any agency--a statement certifying that 
filers (and their spouse and dependent children) have acquired no new 
interests since filing their most recent SF/OGE Form 450, and that 
neither the filer nor spouse has changed jobs or job responsibilities 
since filing that report.
    The department which tested this alternative reported to OGE in 
April 1996 that the experiment was an overwhelming success during the 
1995 filing cycle, from the standpoint of easing the administrative 
burden on filers and agency ethics officials, while continuing to guard 
against conflicts of interest. Over half (718) of that department s 
1277 regular employees who would otherwise have had to file an annual 
SF/OGE Form 450 utilized the alternative certificate. The department 
recommended that this alternative certificate be continued, and that it 
be expanded for use by other departments and agencies.
    Prior to proposing expanded use of this alternative certificate, 
OGE wanted to obtain suggestions from the various executive branch 
agencies. Consequently, OGE conducted a survey of agency ethics 
officials in June 1996, to which 79 agencies responded, and a focus 
group of approximately 100 ethics officials in attendance at the 
September 1996 OGE Ethics Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to 
discuss the issue. The survey revealed that all respondents were in 
favor of expanding the option of using this certificate to their 
agencies. A significant number of participants at the focus group also 
expressed their support for its use.
    Based on input from both the survey and the focus group, OGE has 
now determined that it would be appropriate to propose to authorize 
throughout the executive branch the optional use of an OGE-developed 
certificate of no new interests in lieu of an OGE Form 450, for regular 
employee annual confidential financial disclosure filers who can make 
the required certifications. (If a filer could not make the proposed 
required certifications because there had been changes, then a new OGE 
Form 450 would have to be filed.) The proposed regulatory amendment 
being published herein would accomplish that authorization, and would 
prescribe a uniform format and methodology.
    Note that this proposed certificate of no new interests would be a 
confidential document, and would have to be accorded the same privacy 
protections as the OGE Form 450. Thus, no member of the public could 
have access to a completed certificate of no new interests, except as 
authorized by law. See 5 CFR 2634.604(b) and 2634.901(d). The draft OGE 
Optional Form 450-A includes a Privacy Act statement to that effect.
    While this proposed regulatory amendment concerns regular employees 
only, a similar standardized certificate for special Government 
employees (SGE) who serve on advisory committees for more than one year 
remains under consideration. Agencies and members of the public are 
encouraged to provide comments to OGE during this rulemaking if they 
believe that use of such a certificate for SGEs would also be 
appropriate.

II. Analysis of Amendments to the Regulation

    The following sections of 5 CFR part 2634 are proposed to be 
amended to accomplish the two changes outlined above. The first change 
proposed, adding the new form designation, would be purely 
administrative. The second proposed change would exercise existing OGE 
authority in Sec. 2634.905(c) of the regulation to approve alternative 
procedures in writing, and would do so by means of a general regulatory 
amendment (new proposed paragraph (d) of Sec. 2634.905), rather than on 
an agency-by-agency basis. Furthermore, use of this alternative 
certificate would be entirely optional with each agency, and even if 
the agency did decide it would be beneficial to adopt, each affected 
employee would retain the option of either using the certificate (if 
applicable) or filing a new OGE Form 450. Thus, this proposed 
regulatory amendment would not mandate any new requirements for 
agencies or their employees. It would simply respond to a need for 
additional flexibility that OGE and a number of agencies and employees 
have identified.

Section 2634.601

    In addition to the proposed addition of a reference to the new OGE 
Form 450 designation, the amendments to this section of the regulation 
would add reference to a new OGE Optional Form 450-A (Confidential 
Certificate of No New Interests), as proposed, which would be 
authorized by new Sec. 2634.905(d). The proposed amendments would also 
describe how both forms may be obtained and stocked. Specifically, OGE 
has previously provided a camera-ready version of the OGE Form 450 to 
each designated agency ethics official (DAEO), who then has supplies 
reproduced locally. Likewise, OGE intends to distribute a camera-ready 
version of the proposed OGE Optional Form 450-A, once a final version 
of it is adopted at the time this rulemaking is finalized, for local 
reproduction of supplies by DAEOs. The OGE Form 450 is also available 
from OGE in electronic format, from which paper copies may be printed. 
The electronic format may be obtained from OGE on computer disk, or 
through OGE s electronic bulletin board TEBBS (``The Ethics Bulletin 
Board System'') at 202-208-8030, or via OGE's World Wide Web Site at 
http://www.access.gpo.gov/usoge. The Office of Government Ethics will 
make the proposed OGE Optional Form 450-A, once finally adopted as 
referenced in the regulation, so available in electronic format. For 
now, the proposed form is available for review by contacting OGE 
directly.

Section 2634.905(d)

    The format and methodology for the proposed certificate of no new 
interests which would be authorized for certain confidential filers by 
the amendments as proposed to this section of the regulation have been 
formulated to accommodate the general consensus of opinions expressed 
in OGE s recent survey and focus group, as follows:
    (a) The proposed format would retain its essential character as a 
certificate of no new interests, as proposed and tested at a Cabinet-
level department last year and favored by 84% of the respondents to OGE 
s survey, rather than a certificate of no change (no new interests and 
no divestitures), or a statement affirmatively detailing new interests 
and divestitures. A certificate of no new interests would permit the 
greatest number of filers to use this alternative to OGE Form 450, 
while avoiding ambiguity and confusion in a filer's disclosure history.
    (b) Only regular employee annual filers (not new entrants or 
special Government employees) would be eligible to use the proposed 
certificate of no new interests, as its use would presuppose that an 
initial OGE Form 450 had been filed for the position, that could serve 
as a point of reference. Its due date would be the same as specified in 
the regulation for the annual OGE Form 450 that would otherwise be due.
    (c) Filers could use the proposed certificate for a maximum of 
three consecutive years before being required to file a new OGE Form 
450 every fourth year. Over half (58%) of the respondents to OGE s 
survey recommended this time frame. Alternatively, the proposed 
amendments would authorize agencies to choose, under this section of 
the regulation, to allow use of the certificate for only one year (or 
two years), and to require a new OGE Form 450 every second (or third) 
year.

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    (d) In each year divisible by four, beginning in 2000 (or divisible 
by two or three, beginning in 1998, if agencies were to choose one of 
the more frequent options), all regular employee annual confidential 
disclosure filers would have to file a new OGE Form 450, regardless of 
how recently they might have filed that form (either as a new entrant 
or as an annual filer in years when they could not qualify to use, or 
chose not to use, the optional certificate). Although this proposed 
requirement might be time-consuming for filers and ethics officials 
periodically, it is necessary in order to eliminate the significant 
administrative difficulties inherent in a proposed system that would 
otherwise permit tracking on an individual basis the number of years 
each filer had used the alternative certificate. Furthermore, it was 
preferred by 63% of the respondents to OGE s survey.
    (e) As indicated on OGE Optional Form 450-A, eligible filers would 
have the option of using either OGE Optional Form 450-A (if applicable) 
or OGE Form 450, whichever they prefer. Agencies would, therefore, 
normally provide them with a blank OGE Form 450 and its accompanying 
three pages of instructions at the same time that the future blank OGE 
Optional Form 450-A were distributed. This proposed suggestion is the 
result of OGE's test of the certificate last year, as well as its 
survey and focus group. First, the instructions to OGE Form 450 would 
be necessary as guidance to certificate users on what is meant by 
reportable interests. Second, it is anticipated that, even once the new 
proposed certificate system is finally adopted, approximately half of 
annual confidential disclosure filers will still file the OGE Form 450 
rather than the optional certificate, either because they will have new 
reportable interests or they will otherwise choose to file a new OGE 
Form 450. That was the case at the department where OGE tested this 
procedure last year. If agencies preferred not to attach a blank OGE 
Form 450 and its accompanying instructions, then they could develop 
separate written guidance to advise certificate users of what is meant 
by reportable interests, or they might refer users to the guidance 
contained in any agency-approved electronic software for the OGE Form 
450 and its accompanying instructions, if readily available.
    (f) Since the proposed certificate would be a partial update of a 
previous OGE Form 450 that had already been reviewed and kept on file 
by the agency, certificate users would generally not be required by the 
amendments to the regulation as proposed to attach their previous OGE 
Form 450. However, they would have to certify as part of the 
alternative format that they had reexamined their most recent previous 
filing. In this regard, filers ought to be encouraged to retain copies 
of the most recent OGE Form 450 which they have filed, so that an 
agency's ethics office would not become overburdened with providing 
them copies. Not requiring certificate users to attach their previous 
OGE Form 450 would promote the purposes for using a certificate as 
proposed: to reduce paperwork and to simplify procedures for both 
filers and ethics officials. However, under these proposed amendments, 
an agency could require its employees to attach a copy of their 
previous OGE Form 450, if it determined that the previous form should 
be reexamined by supervisors or that its attachment were otherwise 
necessary.
    While not all agencies will agree with these specific requirements 
as proposed, they are necessary in OGE's view in order to preserve 
general uniformity and to maintain adequate checks on potential 
employee conflicts of interest in the least confusing or burdensome 
manner. The proposed requirements outlined above offer considerable 
flexibility, within the prescribed framework, such that a variety of 
agencies should find this alternative procedure workable once finally 
adopted. Of course, agencies would not be required to use a certificate 
of no new interests at all; this proposed regulatory amendment would 
merely establish a pre-approved option for their consideration. 
However, if agencies chose to use the option as proposed, they would 
have to follow the prescribed methodology and format. Under these 
proposed amendments, if an agency wished to deviate from the prescribed 
methodology and format, it would have to seek separate OGE approval in 
writing. In this regard, OGE has already determined, through 
consultation with the Office of Management and Budget, that the 
particular certificate format proposed to be authorized herein is in 
conformity with the Paperwork Reduction Act, and would require no 
further clearance. This is because its use would be strictly optional 
for employees, it would be used exclusively by current Government 
employees, and it would not require affirmative disclosure of 
substantive information.
    As noted above, the proposed general executive-branchwide 
regulatory authorization for a certificate of no new interests would 
not eliminate any other alternative procedures that have been approved 
by OGE in writing, on an agency-specific basis.
    Before using the alternative certificate to be authorized by this 
proposed amendment, agencies would have to make the determination 
required by new Sec. 2634.905(d) of the regulation, as proposed, that 
the certificate would be adequate to prevent conflicts of interest. 
Once that determination had been made, an agency could use the proposed 
alternative certificate for all or specified groups of its eligible 
filers, provided they were given the option of either filing the 
certificate (if applicable) or a new OGE Form 450, whichever the 
employee preferred.
    In deciding whether to adopt this proposed optional alternative 
certificate at a particular agency, once the new procedure is finally 
adopted by OGE for the executive-branchwide use at each agency's 
option, the agency should give consideration to its unique 
circumstances. For some, a certificate of no new interests might not be 
suitable because the potential for conflict might change from year to 
year, even though an employee's actual job description or official 
responsibilities remained unchanged and the employee did not acquire 
any new financial interests. Agencies with relatively few confidential 
filers or a high percentage of filers with new interests each year 
might decide that authorizing a certificate in lieu of an annual OGE 
Form 450 might not significantly reduce their administrative burden. 
Agencies with large numbers of filers might be concerned that any 
administrative time saved could be outweighed by the potential for 
confusing filers, or that use of the certificate might burden filers 
with the need to maintain copies of previously filed OGE Form 450s for 
examination prior to certifying that they had not acquired any new 
interests, or that the agency itself might be inundated with requests 
for copies of previously filed reports. Some agencies might decide that 
the certificate proposed would not meet their needs because it would 
not account for divestitures. Other agencies might be concerned that 
filers would lose the proper focus on conflict prevention, if filing 
requirements were relaxed.
    While these concerns should not present insurmountable problems for 
most agencies, they were raised by some respondents during OGE s recent 
survey and focus group. Therefore, comments are welcome thereon and 
such concerns should be carefully considered by agencies prior to 
deciding whether to adopt the proposed alternative certificate, when 
and if it is finally adopted by OGE for executive-

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 branchwide use. Some agencies might find it appropriate to test the 
alternative for one year, to gauge its effectiveness before deciding to 
adopt it on a long-term basis. This could easily be accomplished, under 
the regulatory amendments as proposed, by initially selecting the 
proposed option described above of permitting use of the certificate 
for one year only, with a new OGE Form 450 being required in the second 
year.

III. Matters of Regulatory Procedure

Executive Order 12866

    In promulgating these proposed rule amendments, the Office of 
Government Ethics has adhered to the regulatory philosophy and the 
applicable principles of regulation set forth in section 1 of Executive 
Order 12866, Regulatory Planning and Review. These proposed amendments 
have also been reviewed by the Office of Management and Budget under 
that Executive order.

Regulatory Flexibility Act

    As Director of the Office of Government Ethics, I certify under the 
Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. chapter 6) that this proposed 
amendatory rule will not have a significant economic impact on a 
substantial number of small entities, because it primarily affects 
Federal executive branch employees.

Paperwork Reduction Act

    The Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. chapter 35) does not apply, 
because these proposed amendments do not contain information collection 
requirements that require the approval of the Office of Management and 
Budget.

List of Subjects in 5 CFR Part 2634

    Administrative practice and procedure, Certificates of divestiture, 
Conflict of interests, Financial disclosure, Government employees, 
Penalties, Privacy, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, Trusts 
and trustees.

    Approved: January 2, 1997.
Stephen D. Potts,
Director, Office of Government Ethics.

    Accordingly, for the reasons set forth in the preamble, the Office 
of Government Ethics proposes to amend part 2634 of subchapter B of 
chapter XVI of title 5 of the Code of Federal Regulations, as follows:

PART 2634--[AMENDED]

    1. The authority citation for part 2634 continues to read as 
follows:

    Authority: 5 U.S.C. App. (Ethics in Government Act of 1978); 26 
U.S.C. 1043; E.O. 12674, 54 FR 15159, 3 CFR, 1989 Comp., p. 215, as 
modified by E.O. 12731, 55 FR 42547, 3 CFR, 1990 Comp., p. 306.

Subpart F--Procedure

    2. Section 2634.601 is amended by revising paragraph (a) and adding 
a new paragraph (d) to read as follows:


Sec. 2634.601  Report forms.

    (a) The Office of Government Ethics provides, through the Federal 
Supply Service of the General Services Administration (GSA), a standard 
form, the SF 278 (Public Financial Disclosure Report), for reporting 
the information described in subpart B of this part on executive branch 
public disclosure. The Office of Government Ethics also provides two 
uniform formats relating to confidential financial disclosure: OGE Form 
450 (Confidential Financial Disclosure Report) for reporting the 
information described in subpart I of this part on executive branch 
confidential disclosure; and OGE Optional Form 450-A (Confidential 
Certificate of No New Interests) for voluntary use by certain employees 
in lieu of filing an annual OGE Form 450, if authorized by their 
agency, in accordance with Sec. 2634.905(d) of subpart I. Supplies of 
the two confidential forms are to be reproduced locally by each agency, 
from a camera-ready copy or an electronic format made available by the 
Office of Government Ethics. (Until August 31, 1997, the old SF 450 
remains usable, rather than the new OGE Form 450, and is available from 
GSA's Federal Supply Service.)
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    (d) The information collection and recordkeeping requirements have 
been approved by the Office of Management and Budget under control 
number 3209-0001 for the SF 278, and control number 3209-0006 for OGE 
Form 450/SF 450. OGE Optional Form 450-A has been determined not to 
require an OMB paperwork control number, as its use is strictly 
optional for employees, it is used exclusively by current Government 
employees, and it does not require affirmative disclosure of 
substantive information.

Subpart I--Confidential Financial Disclosure Reports

    3. Section 2634.905 is amended by revising the introductory text 
and by adding a paragraph (d) before the examples, to read as follows:


Sec. 2634.905  Exclusions from filing requirements.

    Any individual or class of individuals described in Sec. 2634.904 
of this subpart, including special Government employees unless 
otherwise noted, may be excluded from all or a portion of the 
confidential reporting requirements of this subpart, when the agency 
head or designee determines that:
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    (d) The use of OGE Optional Form 450-A (Confidential Certificate of 
No New Interests) is adequate to prevent possible conflicts of 
interest. This form may be used by eligible filers, as described in 
this paragraph, who can certify, after reexamining their most recent 
previous OGE Form 450, that they (and their spouse and dependent 
children) have acquired no new interests, and that neither the filer 
nor spouse has changed jobs or job responsibilities since filing that 
previous report. OGE Optional Form 450-A will be used under the 
following conditions:
    (1) OGE Optional Form 450-A will only be made available for use by 
current employees who are not special Government employees.
    (2) OGE Optional Form 450-A will only be used by incumbent filers, 
as described in Sec. 2634.903(a) of this subpart, in lieu of filing an 
annual OGE Form 450, who have a previous OGE Form 450 on file with 
their agency for the position they currently hold. Its due date is as 
specified in Sec. 2634.903(a), unless extended under Sec. 2634.903(d).
    (3) As indicated on the OGE Optional Form 450-A, eligible filers 
may use OGE Optional Form 450-A, if applicable, or they may file a new 
OGE Form 450, at their option. Therefore, a blank OGE Form 450 and its 
accompanying written instructions should ordinarily be distributed to 
them, along with the blank OGE Optional Form 450-A. The instructions to 
OGE Form 450 will also provide guidance on what is meant by 
``reportable'' interests on OGE Optional Form 450-A. In lieu of 
attaching a blank OGE Form 450 and its instructions, agencies may 
choose to develop separate written guidance on what is meant by 
``reportable'' interests, or they may refer certificate users to the 
guidance contained in any agency-approved electronic software for the 
OGE Form 450 and its accompanying instructions, if readily available. 
Filers would then also need to be advised of where to obtain a blank 
OGE Form 450, if needed.
    (4) OGE Optional Form 450-A may be used by eligible filers for a 
maximum of

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three consecutive years before they are required to complete a new OGE 
Form 450, every fourth year. Agencies may, however, elect to permit use 
of the OGE Optional Form 450-A for only one year (or two years), and to 
require a new OGE Form 450 every second (or third) year.
    (5) In each year divisible by four, beginning in 2000 (or divisible 
by two or three, beginning in 1998, for agencies that choose one of the 
more frequent options described in the second sentence of paragraph 
(d)(4) of this section), all incumbent filers, as described in 
Sec. 2634.903(a) of this subpart, must file a new OGE Form 450 rather 
than OGE Optional Form 450-A, regardless of how recently they may have 
filed an OGE Form 450 (either as a new entrant or as an annual filer 
who was not eligible to use, or chose not to use, the optional 
certificate).
    (6) When using OGE Optional Form 450-A, filers are not required to 
attach their previous OGE Form 450, unless their agency determines that 
it is necessary.
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