Yesterday the OMB’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) announced that it had approved a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on “Improving Performance, Accountability and Responsiveness in the Civil Service”. This draft rule was submitted to OIRA on February 10th, 2025.
This rulemaking was not published in the Fall 2024 Unified Agenda. It looks like, however, that it fulfilling the requirements of § 4, Conforming Regulatory Changes, of EO 14171, “Restoring Accountability to Policy-Influencing Positions Within the Federal Workforce”. That EO amends and reinstates Trump’s EO 13957, Creating Schedule F in the Excepted Service, and revokes President Biden’s EO 14003, Protecting the Federal Workforce.
Section 4 of EO 14171 required OPM to “promptly amend the Civil Service Regulations to rescind all changes made by the final rule of April 9, 2024, “Upholding Civil Service Protections and Merit System Principles,” 89 Fed. Reg. 24982 [link added], that impede the purposes of or would otherwise affect the implementation of Executive Order 13957.”
I will not be covering this rulemaking in any depth in this
blog, but I will announce it’s publication in the appropriate ‘Short Takes’
post.
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