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General

Questions and answers

To comply with the reporting requirements of the Transitions Act, the updated policy communicates a change to OPM’s previous policy, which excluded certain permanent appointments from OPM’s pre-appointment review process.  The updated policy communicates that moving forward, OPM will review proposed selections of current or former political appointees to permanent positions involving noncompetitive and direct-hire appointments, under 5 CFR 315, subpart F, and 5 CFR 337, subpart B. 
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