§ 5.26 - Service fellowships.

(a) Under authority of sections 207(g) and 208(f) of the PHS Act (42 U.S.C. 209(g) and 210(f)), and within the limits of an approved service fellowship plan, the following officials are authorized to designate persons to receive service fellowships, appoint service fellows, and determine specific stipend rates for individual actions within the ranges established under an approved service fellowship plan:

(1) The Deputy Commissioner; the Senior Associate Commissioner; the Deputy Commissioner for International and Constituent Relations; the Senior Associate Commissioner for Management and Systems; the Senior Associate Commissioner for Policy, Planning, and Legislation; the Chief Counsel and Deputy Chief Counsels; and the Associate Commissioners and their Deputies.

(2) The Director, the Deputy Director for Washington Operations, the Deputy Center Directors for Research and Management, respectively, and the Associate Director, Office of Management Services, National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR).

(3) The Director, the Deputy Directors for Science and for Regulations and Policy, and the Director, Office of Systems and Management, Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH).

(4) The Director, the Deputy Directors, the Associate Director for Research, the Office Directors, and the Director, Office of Management, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER).

(5) The Director, the Deputy Director, and Director, Office of Management Systems, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN).

(6) The Director, the Deputy Director, and the Director, Office of Management and Communications, Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM).

(7) The Director and Deputy Director, the Directors, Office of Review Management and Office of Pharmaceutical Science, and the Director and Deputy Director, Office of Management, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER).

(8) The Director, Office of Executive Operations, Office of the Senior Associate Commissioner, Office of the Commissioner and the Director, Office of Resource Management, ORA.

(9) Director, Office of Human Resources and Management Services, Office of Management and Systems, Office of the Commissioner.

(b) These officials may further redelegate this authority, with the limitation that the Director, Office of Human Resources and Management Services, OMS, OC, is delegated the authority to approve service fellowship plans and exceptions to the approved plans, and this official may not further redelegate this authority.