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5 U.S.C. § 3394 — Noncareer and limited appointments
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**(a)** Each noncareer appointee, limited term appointee, and limited emergency appointee shall meet the qualifications of the position to which appointed, as determined in writing by the appointing authority.
**(b)** An individual may not be appointed as a limited term appointee or as a limited emergency appointee without the prior approval of the exercise of such appointing authority by the Office of Personnel Management.
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**(a)** Each noncareer appointee, limited term appointee, and limited emergency appointee shall meet the qualifications of the position to which appointed, as determined in writing by the appointing authority.
**(b)** An individual may not be appointed as a limited term appointee or as a limited emergency appointee without the prior approval of the exercise of such appointing authority by the Office of Personnel Management.
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It is the purpose of this subchapter to establish a Senior Executive Service to ensure that the executive management of the Government of the United States is responsive to the needs, policies, and goals of the Nation and otherwise is of the highest quality. The Senior Executive Service shall be administered so as to—
(1) provide for a compensation system, including salaries, benefits, and incentives, and for other conditions of employment, designed to attract and retain highly competent senior executives;
(2) ensure that compensation, retention, and tenure are contingent on executive success which is measured on the basis of individual and organizational performance (including such factors as improvements in efficiency, productivity, quality of work or service, cost efficiency, and timeliness of performance and success in meeting equal employment opportunity goals);
(3) assure that senior executives are accountable and responsible for the effectiveness and productivity of employees under them;
(4) recognize exceptional accomplishment;
(5) enable the head of an agency to reassign senior executives to best accomplish the agency’s mission;
(6) provide for severance pay, early retirement, and placement assistance for senior executives who are removed from the Senior Executive Service for nondisciplinary reasons;
(7) protect senior executives from arbitrary or capricious actions;
(8) provide for program continuity and policy advocacy in the management of public programs;
(9) maintain a merit personnel system free of prohibited personnel practices;
(10) ensure accountability for honest, economical, and efficient Government;
(11) ensure compliance with all applicable civil service laws, rules, and regulations, including those related to equal employment opportunity
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In administering any personnel ceiling applicable to an agency (or unit therein), an employee employed by such agency on a part-time career employment basis shall be counted as a fraction which is determined by dividing 40 hours into the average number of hours of such employee’s regularly scheduled workweek. This section shall become effective on October 1, 1980.
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**(a) Appointment and compensation** The Secretary is authorized to appoint and fix the compensation of such officers and employees, including attorneys, as may be necessary to carry out the functions of the Secretary and the Department. Except as otherwise provided by law, such officers and employees shall be appointed in accordance with the civil service laws and their compensation fixed in accordance with title 5.
**(b) Applicability of General Schedule; termination of authority; exemption from limitations on executive positions**
(1) At the request of the Secretary, the Director of the Office of Personnel Management shall, under [section 5108 of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section5108&num=0&edition=prelim), provide for the establishment in each of the grade levels GS–16, GS–17, and GS–18 of a number of positions in the Department equal to the number of positions in that grade level which were used primarily for the performance of functions and offices transferred under this chapter and which were assigned and filled on the day before May 4, 1980.
(2) Repealed. Pub. L. 107–279, title IV, § 403(3), Nov. 5, 2002, 116 Stat. 1985.
(3) Appointments to positions provided for under this subsection may be made without regard to the provisions of [section 3324 of title 5](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title5-section3324&num=0&edition=prelim), if the individual appointed in such position is an individual who is transferred in connection with the transfer of functions and offices under this chapter and, on the day preceding May 4, 1980, holds a position and has duties comparable to those of the position to which appointed hereunder.
(4) The authority under this subsection with respect to any po
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TITLE 5—GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
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this section possess the necessary qualifications and
experience for the position to which appointed.
‘‘(c) LIMITATION.—The total number of appointments
made under this section in any year may not exceed 50
appointments.
‘‘(d) REPORTS.—
‘‘(1) INITIAL REPORT.—Not later than one year after
the date of the enactment of this Act [Aug. 13, 2018],
the Secretary shall submit to the committees of Con-
gress and official specified in paragraph (4) a report
on the number and type of appointments made under
this section as of the date of the report, including—
‘‘(A) a description of the qualifications of the in-
dividuals appointed; and
‘‘(B) data on the time required to appoint the in-
dividuals.
‘‘(2) FINAL REPORT.—Not later than two years after
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary
shall submit to the committees of Congress and offi-
cial specified in paragraph (4) a report on the use of
the authority in this section. The report shall include
the following:
‘‘(A) The number and type of appointments made
under this section during the one-year period end-
ing on the date of the report.
‘‘(B) Data on and an assessment whether appoint-
ments under the authority in this section reduced
the time to hire when compared with the time to
hire under the current review system of the Office
of Personnel Management.
‘‘(C) An assessment of the utility of the appoint-
ment authority and process under this section.
‘‘(D) An assessment whether the appointments
made under this section resulted in higher quality
new executives for the Senior Executive Service of
the Department when compared with the executives
produced under the current review system of the
Office of Personnel Management.
‘‘(E
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