Submission for OMB Review: Comment Request; Review of a Revised Information Collection: Declaration for Federal Employment, Optional Form 306

[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 KJMCDERM@OPM.GOV.

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 
mbtoomey@mail.opm.gov.
Janice R. Lachance,
Director.
[FR Doc. 99-16153 Filed 6-24-99; 8:45 am]
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