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Yes. The evacuation pay authority found at 5 CFR part 550, subpart D, enables an agency to require an employee to evacuate from their assigned worksite and perform work from a designated safe haven. An evacuation order to work from home or another alternative location may be issued “without regard to whether the agency and the employee have a telework agreement in place at the time the order to evacuate is issued.” “An evacuated employee at a safe haven may be assigned to perform any work considered necessary or required to be performed during the period of evacuation without regard to their grade, level, or title,” so long as the employee has “the necessary knowledge and skills to perform the assigned work.”