FY 2000
Budget Justification/Performance Plan
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U.S. Office of Personnel
Management FY 2000 |
| (Revolving Fund Account - continued) | |
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| RESOURCES | FY 1998 Actual |
FY 1999 Estimate |
FY 2000 Request |
FY 2000 Change |
| Obligations | $27,699 |
$34,038 |
$36,083 |
$2,045 |
| Full-Time Equivalents | 265 |
364 |
364 |
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The Employment Service (ES) provides a variety of operational and consultative human resources services to agencies on a reimbursable basis. Services are delivered in all areas of Employment Service responsibility, including automated examining, testing, organizational assessment, personnel records processing, and employment information.
OPM continues to provide two functions formerly funded fully through its general fund appropriation: employment information and examining for Administrative Law Judge positions. These are now funded through a mix of appropriated and reimbursable funds.
In the employment information area, costs of supporting USAJOBS, the Governmentwide automated employment information system, are split between OPM and agencies; agencies pay a prorated share based on each agency’s number of employees in the competitive service. OPM continues to fund approximately half of employment information through S&E appropriations to ensure that the needs of job seekers, veterans, and displaced employees are balanced with the needs of agencies.
In the case of the Administrative Law Judges, OPM is prohibited by law from delegating the authority for examining to agencies, but is fully recovering the costs of examining for these positions through agency fees based on the number of ALJ’s in each agency. OPM will continue to fund other ALJ personnel program functions (such as personnel policy development, reviewing and approving non-competitive employment actions and classifying positions) through appropriated funding.
OPM also continues to conduct the Presidential Management Intern (PMI) Program through both appropriated and reimbursable funds, providing policy leadership, direction, and administrative support under S&E funding, and recovering the costs of assessment and training through agency fees based on the number of PMI’s hired.
Reimbursable Authority.
ES provides reimbursable services under OPM's existing Revolving Fund Authority, which was defined in the FY 1994 OPM budget justification to include the conduct of projects at the request of agencies to assess and improve the quality of the Federal workforce, and to support agencies' efforts to automate their staffing operations. This authority includes studies designed to assist agencies in the selection, development, and retention of a high quality workforce and to help agencies develop and install complementary computer systems for staffing operations. ES Revolving Fund authority was further expanded in FY 1996 when OPM was given authority to delegate competitive examining (except for Administrative Law Judges), and to accept reimbursement from agencies for competitive examining services, when requested.
ES utilized a contingent workforce of temporary and term employees, and private sector contractors, to supplement core staff in the delivery of specific services. We are deploying a new suite of systems to further assist in the delivery of reimbursable services through our nationwide network of Service Centers.
ANNUAL PERFORMANCE GOALS FOR FY 2000
BY STRATEGIC PLAN GOAL AND OBJECTIVE
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